Ishmael In Sierra Leone

One of these experiences is when he was about to see his family, then the village they were staying in was attacked by rebels. His mother, father and two brothers were trapped in their house and slowly burned to death. This happened only a few weeks after their former home was attacked and raided by rebels. But it is a better fate then some because one of his now deceased, friend’s 3 sisters were raped over and over again. while their father was knocked out for trying to defend them and their mother being forced to watch. The rebels took the girls with them. Ishmael's fate was not much better than the 3 girls for he became a child soldier: traumatized and hopped up on drugs and told to “avenge” his family by killing every rebel and snorting cocaine until he no longer felt anything. Remember war is not all honor and glory, it is suffering, death and pain. In more ways than

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,

Ishmael Beah was a boy from Sierra Leone who became a soldier in the country`s tragic civil war. He spent nearly all his childhood running away from the war and eventually ended up joining the army. During difficult times, Ishmael always held on to hope to continue his life’s journey. In A Long Way Gone, the theme is “Always have hope”, and is shown through Ishmael Beah’s hope for a better life, to find his family, and through the rehab staff`s hope for the boy soldiers.

For a boy who often has a great deal of misfortune in his life, he also seems to have an endless amount of luck. Though fate may have played a big role in starting Ishmael’s war life, his luck always helps him overcome the obstacles the war throws at him. Before the war, Ishmael spends more than a month in the forest alone before he finally runs into people again. Ishmael consciously joins the new group of six boys. With over miles and miles of empty forest and rebel territory, Ishmael was lucky to find a group of boys who have the same motives as him. As the boys continue on their journey, they’ve been captured and are brought to a nearby village; they wait

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be in the center of a war as an adolescent or how the people who experienced war feel after it all ends? Well, Ishmael Beah is an activist and writer, but also was a child soldier in a war in Sierra Leone. He didn't have a choice other than to join the army if he wanted to survive. Due to the war in Sierra Leone, Beah faced many hardships that impacted his life in a negative way.

The story of ishmael's life is set in Sierra Leone. The country was doing well until civil war broke out forcing ishmael and other boys to

Ishmael did whatever he needed to survive, and he was also manipulated during the war to take drugs, drink alcohol, and smoke marijuana. During the book Ishmael lost, and partially regained his innocence, his will to survive weakened, and the damage of war continued to get worse. From A Long Way Gone someone could learn determination, hope, and empathy.

Ishmael reminiscences of his life before, when he was happy and safe, at this point of the book Ishmael is lost, and is influenced by the individuals around him leading to look at life differently, “my squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed” (126)

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.

Ishmael Beah tells of the events of his youth and untimely loss of his childhood in his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. In this heart wrenching recollection of his childhood, Ishmael tells of how the war in Sierra Leone changed his life and took him from the life he led as a child growing up with his family, hobbies, love of music and mischief, and left him a wandering orphan and later, a brutal soldier who’s daily activities consisted of killing, burning and thievery. Surviving the fate that befell him required resorting to tactics that skewed the basis of reality. The basis of Beah’s existence was sustained on the fact that he and the other soldiers around him maintained a daily struggle of tug of war between their traumatized

I didn 't know what I was going to do with my life. I felt that I was starting over and over again.” This quote introduces us to a multitude of issues that Ishmael faced and survived. It portrays how he was a victim of violence who had lost his family and is considered dangerous to most people; he survived more than physical pain but mental anguish as well. The anguish of his everyday battles of losing his family and friends brings him a great deal of sorrow and grief. He continues on through each village realizing how no one cares for him and how hopeless he truly is and with no one by his side he comes to the conclusion that he has no place to call home anymore. His village was destroyed by the rebels and as a whole, Sierra Leone now fears him. He worries no such place will exist for him as long as he is alive. In particular when he says “I was starting over and over again,” he is realizing that he has no place to stop as long as Sierra Leone is in war because he has to avoid the rebels and the terrified victims of the war, that fear him. With no place to stop and the constant need to be on the move he realizes he has no time or place to rest. Finally he is coming to the conclusion that his dreams have been obliterated by the war and that the only thing he can do is survive each coming day. Overall Ishmael had to survive a great deal of emotional, mental, and physical pain to

At 12 years old imagine knowing that everyone you know is gone and your home is torn up. Imagine wandering in the wilderness and being alone. Imagine becoming recruited as a child solider, and being brain washed and drugged to kill people of the same culture. Imagine the innocence being corrupted and the pain being brought on. This is no life for anyone to live, but in the story A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier written by Ishamael Beah that has became his life. The story take places in Sierra Leone when his life is take over by soldiers who have killed his family and destroyed his home. Ishmael is forced to flee his home and finds himself becoming a child a solider. Sierra Leone has been filled with war and poverty, but within this story it shows Ishmaels strength, but it also shows the pain of his innocence being robbed from him at such a young age.

Eventually, Ishmael is recruited, like many boys his age and even younger, to join the army of Sierra Leone and fight in the conflict. Actually, he's not so much recruited as threatened with death if he won't serve. It's not a difficult choice. Thanks to guns, drugs, and brainwashing by his commanding officers, Ishmael is transformed

The novel, “A Long Way Gone”, documents Ishmael Beah’s youth in Sierra Leone in the year of 1993 during a civil war. At the age of twelve, Ishmael lost his family due to the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) causing his village, Mattru Jong, that he cherishes the most to be destructed. This was the start of his difficult journey of survival. At the age of thirteen, he became a brainwashed child soldier who was filled with raging vengeance against the RUF. Ishmael lost his pure innocence and childhood due to the civil war. Eventually, he escaped from being a corrupted indoctrinate child soldier and was sent to rehab. After some time in rehab, Ishmael received the treatment he needed. He then, lived with his uncle Tommy in the city for some time and soon the war began to repeat in the city, the killings, invasion, and demolition of homes. Ishmael became fearful again and this time he’ll be escaping to another country to avoid from being a soldier again.

Early in his account, Ishmael Laments how “the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people” (pg. 48). From the story after the death of Ishmael’s family by the rebellion, trust and survival are being forced to Ishmael's life. Some of the consequences suffer from the violent is Ishmael have trust and survival issues. Ishmael are put in the condition where he have to fight for his own food with the boys. Go through survival by not get killed by the rebellions. He also have protect himself from starving and get killed. Ever since the attack of the rebellions started all villages are being scared and have no trust of the people not from the village. Ishmael is traveling with the boys and when he is going through villages