Sergio Leone

summer reading project entry 1 the major people in a long way gone include ishmael beah who is the protagonist of the book and through the book he is running from soldiers but eventually he becomes a soldier when he cannot escape them. junior is ishmael's brother who plays a major role in how ishmael acts as a soldier even though junior and ishmael were separated. for example when ishmael was going to reunite with his family just before he got there it was burned down causing ishmael…

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is a narrative of survival of a 12-year-old boy separated from his family and caught in the mess of the Sierra Leone civil war in the early 1990s. His story reveals his traumatizing and shocking experiences as a soldier driven by anger and revenge for the loss of his village and his culture, only later able to overcome everything that had happened and the things he’d done. Ishmael’s cultural connection to storytelling was ultimately what…

“like drinking water.”. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was written to tell Ishmael’s story and expose the horrific acts child soldiers are forced to do. Ishmael was forced to join the army to fight against the rebels trying to overthrow the Sierra Leone government. While in the army, Ishmael and his fellow soldiers were exposed drugs and extreme…

During a devastating civil war between RUF (Revolutionary United Front) and the government, many people had suffered and had great loses. In the book A Long Way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah, it demonstrates what happened in Sierra Leone when his nightmare because a reality. In the war, the government and RUF would recruit young boys to help fight in this civil war. Ishmael, a 12 year old boy who was a young soldier himself, paints a picture of himself and the effects the war has caused him. He…

“A Long Way Gone” is an autobiography written by Ishmael Beah that composed of memoirs on his own life as a young boy who experienced the mental and physical battle of reluctantly becoming a soldier. Before a civil war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991, Ishmael had a normal life with his family in his hometown of Mogbwemo. When the war led by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) transpired, Ishmael and his older brother, Junior, along with their friends, were traveling to Mattru Jong to…

In the story “A Long Way Gone” Ishmael beah describes to the readers the many problems and the consequences that he faced from being in the. On page 48 of the book Ishmael tells how “the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience 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…

Victims of War Children are the biggest victims of war, whether they are forced to become soldiers or whether they are wounded and maimed. Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone, and Mariatu Kamara, author of The Bite of the Mango, both faced unspeakable horrors and loss and were equally victimized during the war. The two authors were subject to immense trauma; at an incredibly young age they went from enjoying their childhoods to witnessing death and being faced with extreme brutality and…

Throughout the memoir, Ishmael has memories of a lot of different aspects of his life. Some of those situations are peaceful and some very traumatizing. The memories of his past motivate him to endure the hardships going on the village during the Sierra Leone Civil War, so he may someday be able to go back to the happy place where he once was before disaster struck. Remembering how he was full of so much joy and the carelessness of the world gave him enough motivation to make it through the days…

I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish takes place during the Gaza siege. The Israeli military had banned foreign media sources from entering the small Palestinian territory. Izzeldin Abuelaish became the prime source for news when the military banned the media. He told everyone in the refugee camp and a news reporter the daily things that were happening in the war zone. Izzeldin Abuelaish notified Sholmo Eldar, the news reporter, through a cell phone and Elder reported the news on Israel’s…

Both Mariatu and Ishmael go into the Sierra Leone war unknowing of the physical and psychological transformation that will be forced upon them. This transformation, their loss of innocence, rids them of their childhood and forces them to endure experiences inappropriate for children. Mariatu, whose story is told in The Bite of the Mango, is a young girl whose hands are cut off by rebel soldiers. After traveling a long way for medical attention, she undergoes surgery and later finds out that she…