A Long Way Gone Book Report

Every time I stopped shooting to change magazines and saw my two young lifeless friends, I angrily pointed my gun into the swamp and killed more people.” In this part of the story, the author is trying to show us how Ishmael is changing as a person. He’s being influenced day and night by violent people and is being brainwashed to kill the rebel forces as some kind of revenge. He’s becoming less thoughtful about the choices he makes, less caring about who gets hurt by those choices and isn’t feeling guilty afterwards. Anyone but his tight group of fellow soldiers cannot be trusted in Ishmael’s eyes.

All trust was lost between citizens. Ishmael could not be seen as anything but a soldier, he became very lonely. The war took away the happiness and overall family like atmosphere of Ishmael along with his country of Sierra Leone.

In the memoir, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael talk about his story of his childhood and when he was recruited as a child soldier during the war in Sierra Leone. In the book, it is his journey to escape the war and explains what he went through when the war first made an appearance in his life, to when he was actually a part of the war and fighting, killing, and harming other people, then later on when he was brought to a rehibition center to be established back into society and lastly how he finally escape Sierra Leone and began living in New York City and how he spoke and informed people about the children affected by war. He talks about the horrible things that happened to him and everyone that was affected by the war. On his journey

Violence consumes Sierra Leone during a civil war, as well as Ishmael Beah’s childhood. This theme of war highlights itself through the events of bloodshed, gunfights, and senseless murder in Ishmael’s A Long Way Gone, but can also be seen through the hidden details of literary devices throughout the book of memoirs. To express the violence involved in his traumatic experience in Sierra Leone, Ishmael uses imagery, personification, and quotes an individual’s diction. First off, Ishmael’s use of imagery paints a vivid image in the mind of the reader.

Overall, Ishmael Beah is bright, happy, and good natured, until he is unexpectedly separated from his family, when rebel forces attacked and destroyed villages. The group of six boys continued on after there devastating journey to survive, they try several ways to escape the war enormity. The unstable teens struggle to take on board, a terrifying journey,

The child soldier Ishmael Beah once said, “These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.” This represented what Ishmael had to go through during the war. The Sierra Leone war began in 1991. This war was fought by the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) and the National Sierra Leone Army Force. As a consequence, 10,000 child soldiers were recruited, along with them there Ishmael Beah. Beah was only 13 years old when he was forced to become a child soldier by the rebels. In addition, rebel superiors brainwashed Ishmael, along with the rest of the recruited kids by inducing them into drugs such as marijuana, brown-brown and amphetamines. Consequently, a lot of problems were

Ishmael Beah was a young boy when his world turned upside down after Sierra Leone was attacked by rebels. He had lost the most important thing in his life, his family. He and his brother Junior set out to find a safe haven during the war. While they were staying in a village, it was attacked by the rebels. He and Junior were separated and he has to embark on this dreadful journey with strangers. He survived many attacks on different villages and finally made it to the safe

Ishmael Beah had a really tough life throughout his childhood and teenage years. In his literary work, A Long Way

“I have been rehabilitated now, so don’t be afraid of me. I am not a soldier anymore; I am a child” (Beah 199). Ishmael Beah had a long road to rehabilitate but he was able to rehabilitate because he had vital forces shaping him. In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, a long way gone, Ishmael was a child soldier in Sierra Leone. He wrote a memoir sharing his experiences of being a child soldier and of him rehabilitation. During 1991 to 2002 there was a vicious civil war going on in the western African country of Sierra Leone between the RUF rebels and the government forces. Ishmael Beah was a young 10-year-old boy who lived in a small village, he liked rap music and dancing hip hop with his friends. Ishmael was never affected by the war until one day when

In the introduction of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, he writes, “There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country” (Beah 1). During this statement Beah says that he is completely oblivious to the war around him. These people living in Sierra Leone had adapted to the war to the point where their perception had been altered. With this memoir he shares his experiences and obstacles he faces throughout the war to become a beckon of hope in this despairing country. Ishmael uses his social skills, timely luck, and emotional strength, to find the courage to overcome these adversities and survive in and out of the war.

The book is based on actual events and is expressed through a personal point of view. Ishmael wrote a memoir that tells the story of a young boy who is torn from his peaceful life, and then forced into a frightening world of drugs and slavery. In writing about his experiences, he has made the decision to present his experiences in a particular way by missing out

In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, a former boy soldier with the Sierra Leone army during its civil war(1991- 2002) with the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), provides an extraordinary and heartbreaking account of the war, his experience as a child soldier and his days at a rehabilitation center. At the age of twelve, when the RUF rebels attack his village named Mogbwemo in Sierro Leone, while he is away with his brother and some friends, his life takes a major twist. While seeking news of his family, Beah and his friends find themselves constantly running and hiding as they desperately strive to survive in a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. During this time, he loses his dear ones and left alone in the

Ishmael Beah: The author and narrator of this novel shares his experience when he was a child soldier for Sierra Leone Armed Services during the civil war. Before the war, he spent most of his time with his friends, rapping along with his cassette tapes, enjoying

Ismael and the group of kids were so close to meet their families up a hill in a village. Then RUF killed everybody in the village before they got a chance to meet them. After that they got ambush by the Sierra Leone army, make them forced, and brainwashed them to join the army by putting a gun at their heads. Even if they didn’t join the army or didn’t encounter them they will have a slim chance of living of the lack of food or get kill soon. They have to join the army to survive. After their few days they started with the army they play soccer and have their final days of their childhood left before

Ishmael and his brother are fortunately in another village when they find out that their village has been attacked. From that day Ishmael, his brother and some of their friends on the run from the war and the rebels. They flee from one nerbrända village to the other and there is not a day without hits for victims of war or being chased by the rebels. But it is not only the rebels who are the problem. They will not be welcomed by the people because they think they are soldiers. Both the army and the rebels use child soldiers, which means that people in the villages believe that they are soldiers when they come and try to seek shelter. It ends anyway they become captured by the army and it does not take long before Ishmael is a cold-blooded killing