A Long Way Gone Monologue

In this essay I’m going to be discussing three themes from the novel A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah. The three themes I am going to be talking about are survival, family, and war. There are many themes in this novel, but I believe these are the three most important ones. I will explain each theme, give quotes from the book showing the theme and then explain how they are significant and show the theme.

The whole experience has shown me that some things in life, including your own failures, can only be fixed or achieved by your own personal goals and your own personal drive. It has helped me become more independent and to not sit back and let others do the work for me. It has given me self-motivation. Some obstacles cannot always be conquered by the assistance of others, but by your own motivation to defeat those hardships. You need to find yourself to succeed from

While writing a memoir, the author does not always have to be truthful. As long as the author gets their point across, then that’s fine. Most authors, in every genre, have either some kind of information that they add in to try and make the book more appealing, or have information that they take out because it's either not worth telling, or it doesn’t add to the point of the story.

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

A major setback I have faced is suffering with an eating disorder. For five years I have struggled with this illness. I have been hospitalized, and I have been in program at The Center For Change twice Finally, I told myself that I had to get better, or I was going to die. A year ago, I chose recovery. It is quite possibly the toughest challenge I will ever face, but the grueling process of recovery has allowed me to take back my life. Fortunately, I did not go through this on my own. I have been truly blessed with the best support team which includes my family, my friends, therapists, and my Stake President and doctor, Pres. Vance. I have grown into a more confident and compassionate person by helping others with eating disorders and other

A Long Way gone is a memoir about Ishmael Beah’s life before and after he was a child soldier. It took a toll on his life when his village was invaded by the rebel soldiers. His family was taken his mom and his little brother everything he had and known was ripped from his reach. Ishmael was a good kid and was kind because of the people around him his community shaped into the person he was when he lived there. He had a good place and had been surround by good people all of his life so it was easy for him to be happy just like the people around him.

War is and can be defined as both a state of emergency and the liberator to a world so corrupt and unjust. The war in Sierra Leone separated families and ruined lives. How can a fight for a cause so right be so wrong. The Books “The Bite of the Mango” and “A Long Way Gone” compare and contrast Ishmael Beah’s experience to Mariatu Kamaras’. Both books are very different yet very similar. In The Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone both characters lose their childhood because of the war, but go through different journeys based solely on their gender.

The old man when saying, “We must strive to be like the moon” means that since no one complains about the moon and everyone likes the moon we need to strive, as people, to be more like the moon. We need to strive to be nice to everyone so that no one has anything to complain about when they are around us. This advise definitely can be applied to everyone’s life because everyone should want people to have nothing to complain about when talking about them.

Starting a calm day in Sierra Leone to surviving, and being trafficked into the army is what Ishmael Beah experiences as a child. A Long Way Gone is a memoir of a child soldier, Ishmael Beah, and the memoir shows the experiences he has throughout his childhood. Beah experiences trauma of the war just like all of the other child soldiers. Ishmael is one of the very little amount that survive the war. The three main themes in A Long Way Gone are the themes of survival, healing, and memory.

Some people read books just for the fun of it, others place the books in their heart because it was so intense and special to them. A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah is a book that earns special places in readers’ heart when they read to the last page of the novel. The novel was one of a kind and achieve its great purpose of showing the problem that affecting children all around the world. The themes of war, love and hope contribute in this novel making A Long Way Gone comparable to other novels. Everyone should read this novel because an individual can relate to the situations that Ishmael faces, how war affects children around the world and the figurative languages Ishmael use is almost imaginable.

In Sierra Leone, innocent children were ripped from their homes and families, raped, killed, and some taken away forced to become child soldiers in their Civil War. After escaping, the wars in their minds were neverending. The effects of being child soldiers had taken a toll on their minds leaving them with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). How would this impact you if it occurred in your life?

As a young boy I watched as my organ flowers disappear and I asked myself “will I see them again?” The space was trembling under its weight and I didn’t think anyone would understand how I was feeling. Organ flowers all decayed, and I will see them again.

The only clarity that I had was that the pains and the suicidal thoughts, depression, mental hospitals and tears weren't for nothing. They have prepared me to fight the battles that I lost. I am standing riotously through the despair. Grades, academics, involvement with my schools and participation I have prevailed through the ugly in my life. With my experience in pain I plan to go to college and major in psychology with a minor in social work. One day I would like to be of service to others like myself that have skeletons in their closets and need help or just someone to talk to. You see I may have been beaten, but the Lord made sure I was not broken and that I would live another day and hopefully with his help another decade willingly. I have learned not give up when the going gets tough, but to ride the waves of life, because what doesn't kill you truly does make you

My life was flashing before my eyes, I was realizing what was happening death was coming. Cold and stillness filled the room while the feeling of death started to overtake my body it was a different feeling but it had to come. My limbs felt heavy and I thought real slow everything was slowing down. Just then something odd happened like nothing I ever thought some sound came into the room an annoying buzzing creature.