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

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

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.

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

“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.

In order for the military to use these children as killing machines they had to use several tactics to emotionally manipulate these boys into killers. In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah he states the following “In the daytime instead of playing soccer in the village square, I took turns at the guarding posts around the village, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder, which always spread out on the table and of course taking more of the white capsules, as I had become addicted to them” (120). Basically the tactics the soldiers used to indoctrinate child soldiers were drugs, violent movies, and teach them to seek vengeance for their family’s death. These tactics would rob the innocence of many kids and their childhoods.

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.

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.

Ishmael was forced into being in the war because he knew he was going to either die, or join the army against the rebels. Ishmael fits the role of both a victimizer and a victim because he has experienced both like no other.       Throughout the story, Ishmael is portrayed as a victim. He loses family members, loved ones, and friends. He also is targeted to be a boy soldier and do things that he would never have done before.

In the poem “The Past” by Ha Jin, the narrator in the poem talks about his past. In the first stanza, he talks about how he accepted his past whether it was good or bad. His past is basically a part of who he is but if his past is forgotten or thrown away then he would lose his identity.

“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.

This book is about a boy named Ishmael Beah who was forced to do things he wished he’d never did. Music and dancing basically was his passion and that kept him alive. The three most important things in this book include his feelings before the war, feelings during the war, and feelings after the war. The first most important feeling in “A Long Way Gone” is his time before the war and how he was feeling.

In conclusion he and Ishmael Beah don't have a lot in common. His live his probably one of the hardest lives in the world. It’s way harder than mine at least.he had to go through way more for one thing and the other his that he had to actually be in a war. Overall I liked this book and I would encourage anyone to read

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.

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