Military use of children

encounter his family fades away as he approached the village his family had taken refuge in. Unfortunately, the RUF had reached the village first and had destroyed it completely. Ishmael was then recruited by the government military force and was trained in army camps. He learned to use a gun, to fight, and to be strong with the help of an effective drug. After three years of being a boy soldier, Ishmael was taken away by the UNICEF and through their rehabilitation center, he slowly learned how…

of meeting people” when Ishmael says this he is expressing that when he joined the war it changed his actions and it also changed his interactions with other people. Ishmael’s actions changed while in the war, because he began to use drugs and since he continued to use drugs he was sent to rehab as his consequence and he had many struggles in there and he also had to adapt to his surroundings which wasn’t really easy for him and his friends it took time. The main reason of the struggle between…

Should Be Prosecuted”, states that “Child soldiers rarely have the same understanding of their decisions and actions as adults”(Child Soldiers Should Be Prosecuted). This article also claims that “The recruiters of child soldiers also use drugs and alcohol to make children more compliant and to enable them to commit acts they would not ordinarily commit”(Child Soldiers Should Be Prosecuted). These texts from the article show that child soldiers are influenced into doing terrible actions by being…

A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, is about an 11-year-old boy named Salva. He lives in Southern Sudan in 1985, during the Second Sudanese Civil War. He ends up having to flee his village, Loun-Ariik, not knowing if he will ever see his family again. The factors that made survival possible for Salva are individuals, such as Uncle, groups/organizations, like the refugee camps, and Salva's strength, both physical and psychological. Salva would not have been able to make it to the…

English teacher must consider many things to determine the story’s relevance, such as the content of the story and universal themes. Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone is appropriate for the Sterling High School English IV curriculum because of its use of complex ideas and universal themes that make this text a worthy champion for the curriculum. Beah’s extensive and sophisticated figurative language appeal to the reader and forces him to think beyond literal representation and think about…

forced. According to the article “Armed and Underaged”, about 200,000 children per year become underaged child soldiers, and most of them against their will. And it’s not just boys who are getting taken. Many underaged girls are getting taken to be the war’s cooks or messengers, and most of them get sexually abused when kidnapped. Not only are the children kidnapped and forced to join, but the adult soldiers threaten the children, and tell…

Salva is a young boy in a tribe called the Dinka tribe. They are enemies with the Nuer tribe. A war breaks out while Salva is in school and his teacher tells him to run into the bush away from home. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water. The book describes the struggle for Salva, who had to run away because a war broke out. The outline of the story shows that in reality, many kids face this trouble. Salva proves that people are capable of being able to survive on…

he is just a lost child wandering the forest from villages to villages in order to survive. Since then, he was already victim of categorization. In fact, he was seen by most of the people as a child soldier since at this time most of the wandering children were soldiers. Consequently, 90% of the people Ishmael and his friends happens to meet, automatically get scared and consequently act in correspondence. For example, in the chapter nine, Ishmael and his friends got attacked by a a group of…

Ishmael had been away from the war, trying to get rid of the memories. The war found him again. He wanted to get away from it and never return. War severely affected Ishmael’s life. Ishmael want to create awareness for boy soldiers so that other children do not have to go through what he had…

Benin home to provide trips for them. “Attending class became a requirement for the weekend trips to the city…. Because of these things we began going to class” (Beah 148). Mike Wessells article Child Soldiers says that it important to reteach to the children what it means to be a kid. One way that they achieve this is by using a game called the tunnel. “The boys stood in two lines facing each other, with partners in the line joining hands and raising their arms, creating a tunnel through which…