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Stepan Holovchak Ms Sator ENG 4C1 18 Dec 2015 Recovery from the war Death seen during the war is a powerful thing that can break everybody 's mind even if you have a strong body or a huge gun . Often men who returned home are completely changed after the violence they have passed through . Mostly this effects children that were involved in the war in the age of 16 or even younger .During these years children form their vision of the world , so the events like a war, especially if they…

There is a boy who is a member of child soldiers of Muslim Seleka because he thought it was the best way to earn money. He said that he killed a lot of people with no ideas and he sold weapon that was AK47 which was used to kill people(Smith). As one kinds of child labour, child soldiers& problems is very harsh for children to bear. Also there are children who work in cacao farm, because he is a salve of mister, who is manage on the cacao farm. They star to labor on 6A.M. and end in the evening,…

question is, should they be prosecuted as criminals or victims? Ishmael Beah was a child soldier in Sierra Leone during the 1990’s to fight in there civil war. After being rescued he was rehabilitated and is now a husband, author, and lives in New York. He says that he still gets nightmares about what he did. His village was attacked when Ishmael was away, he went to the military in Sierra Leone for help and were recruited for the military as well as the other boys who were with him. When he…

During the memoir there were so many memorable character that were played a big role in Ishmael’s life. I believe that the Lieutenant who trained Ishmael and his friends to become the boy soldiers they were in their childhood to be the most interesting character to me. How they met was actually an interesting and rather sad story. Before the rebels destroyed Ishmael’s village, Ishmael left the village to participate in a talent show with his friends. There also an interesting fact about the…

Most people have no idea what is going on in countries such as Iraq, Sudan or various African countries such as Sierra Leone when it comes to children. Children are often forced into war at the tender ages of 7-15. They will spend years of their lives fighting and killing human beings to the point where they will never be able to forget the inhumane phenomenons. It is so smart for these countries to use child soldiers, because they are at an age where they are most likely going to follow orders…

Ishmael Beah loses his mother, father, brother, grandparents, and dear childhood friends to Sierra Leonen rebels. In the process, Beah manages to lose himself-- his true character. In a country engulfed by war, he is left with no choice other than to be apart of it. As a soldier, Beah, receding his fear, taps into rage and vengeance in order to…

Imagine being a soldier in a war and you're being attacked. Finally, you find the shooter, capture him, and it turns out to be a nine-year-old boy. What do you do? This is a situation in many countries around the world, adolescents as young as nine fighting in wars. Their families have been killed and they’ve been drugged so they become the perfect soldiers; they are cheap, loyal, and expendable. Commanders of armies who have child soldiers drug them to get rid of their emotions and kill in…

“‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…

The Cruelty of Society Towards Women in The Grandissimes Ashley Renshaw says, “Always stand for what you believe in because it might just be the change the world needs.” Like Renshaw, Aurora and Clotilde go to extreme measures to stand firm in what they believe in while encountering many obstacles along the way. In George Washington Cable’s book, The Grandissimes, Cable shows his readers the harshness society presses upon Creole women during the nineteenth century. Cable’s depiction of the…

during a civil war in Sierra Leone. This memoir recalls the journey of Ishmael’s life during the war and the struggles he has faced since then. The death of his family made him want to go against the rebels, but to survive he had to kill blameless civilians. In return, he was forever damaged with terrible memories of his childhood days. This memoir increased by knowledge of the African region and Sierra Leone, while allowing me to learn about the difficulties during the Sierra Leone Civil War.…