Analysis Of A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

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 details and recounting others. This

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 descriptively writes about his experience as a child soldier in the civil war in Sierra Leone. In his memoir he shows how everyday things can be seen in a hostile way from war. Beah uses rhetorical strategies such as characterization and imagery to help.

“Things will change rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything” (Beah p.29). Long way gone is about the life of Ishmael Beah in which he experienced difficult tasks during a civil war and how it reshaped his life. “One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life” (Beah p.69) I recommend reading this book because it is based on real life events, it captures your attention and gives you a life lesson.

Every person in the world goes through some life changing events, whether they are small or big. These changes shape a person's personality. Many life changing events are explained in Ishmael Beah’s book, A Long Way Gone. In the book he goes through many changes throughout his childhood. The story starts during a time in Sierra Leone where rebels are causing terror supposedly trying to make the government “better”. When really they seem to be causing more chaos than help. Ishmael Beah goes through some very life changing events throughout his journey, he manages to get out of these changes but they only seem to make his life worse. Losing the people that mattered most in his life, getting enlisted into the army, and becoming a part of a new

Ishmael is living with haunted memories of his past. His new life without any war zone or hostility, is unfamiliar with him as was always looking over his shoulder during his time in Sierra Leone. This is causing disruption to his life and his identity due to vivid dreams constantly returning to him. “One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

In chapter 9, he says that, “It was a calm walk along the sand, since we didn’t except trouble in this part of the country. We chased and wrestled each other in the sand, played somersault and running games. We even bundled up Alhaji’s old shirt and tied a rope around it to make a soccer ball. We then played a game, and each time one of us scored a goal, he would celebrate with a soukous dance. We shouted, laughed, and dang our secondary-school songs” (59). This shows Ishmael and his friends becoming children one more time. For an instance they had forgotten everything around them. At first they were scared of the ocean, they feared the crashing waves on the shore, and show their inexperience. This scene is powerful because it shows what his life would have been if he hadn’t been dragged into the

A Long Way Gone. Throughout the book he undergoes many changes in life from losing his family and friends to massacring his once neighbors and friendly school mates. Ishmael Beah is both a victim and a victimizer as he flees the ruthless RUF soldiers but, also finds himself craving the front lines of war where he is brainwashed to pillage and demolish the villages of the very civilians he is supposed to protect as a government soldier. While sharing

First, I really enjoyed the way this story was written because it begins with Ishmael in his present life in New York and then he begins by recalling his childhood and the love he had for rap music. He tells his readers that he and his friends would walk to a city where there was a TV and they would watch the music videos and soon after

A war breaks out and Ishmael loses his family, but he makes and loses new friends on his way to find them. He ends up joining the war, killing hundreds of innocent people without a thought. He is then saved and tries to be cured of his PTSD and finally vents to the nurse he “crushes” on. He then travels to the United States to be a

A Long Way Gone begins in Ishmael Beah’s early youth in 1993. A twist in a childhood that is unexpected. It all started from an attack by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in his village of Mogbwemo. At this time, he along with his older brother and two friends lost connection with their family. His first few chapters, he spend time looking back to home to get money for to purchase foods. When Ishmael and his groups run to the rebels, they were separated from one another. Then, he now noticed that his family has already been hit by the RUF, he started to

“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.” -Patricia Cornwell. A Long Way Gone is a memoir of a child soldier named Ishmael Beah. Throughout the story, it talks about overcoming different obstacles about life as a child soldier. Throughout the story, Ismael conquers his problems but also shows signs of wanting revenge. The most powerful motif in A Long Way Gone is revenge because of his will to kill the rebels for killing his friends families and being bloodthirsty to kill any rebel in his path for the terrible things the rebels have done.

In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael’s dream is a manifestation of his life when he is fleeing from war, experiencing and participating in bloodshed, and rehabilitating at the Benin House. Ishmael's dream first symbolizes his dream when he returns to a dark empty house. After Ishmael and Junior have an oyster picking competition, they head home. When Ishmael arrives, his house is desolate and pitch black. Everyone is gone, Junior included.

The ground is hot and damp. Humidity hangs in the air. Blood runs through the rivers, and bullet casings line the ground like stones on a path. Bodies pile up faster than the plants can decompose them. Sierra Leone’s war-torn country has seen a lot since its independence in 1961, including an end to democracy, three military coups, a one-party state, and a civil war. The civil war affected many families, like Ishmael Beah’s. Beah is the author of A Long Way Gone, a book about a boy soldier who is saved from the horrors of the civil war in Sierra Leone. The war (and other factors) affected Beah’s personality throughout the story, and the way his life would change. Once he becomes a soldier, his personality changes very much. Also, when Beah

“Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal” (Emmanuel Jal). “A Long Way Gone” was written by Ishmael Beah and published in 2007. This novel is about a boy named Ishmael Beah and he enjoyed rap music the minute he hear it and it got him out of many situations. He lost his family and was alone running from rebel soldiers. The army eventually recruited him and some of friends he found while he was running. UNICEF (a rehabilitation center) picked up the boys and brought them back to the state of mind they had before the guns, death, and drugs. The three most important scenes in this story include when Ishmael Beah saw the women running into the village with a dead baby on her back, When he burned the bottom parts of his foot walking on sand, and how acted when he first arrived at the rehabilitation center.