Ishmael Reflection

I enjoyed reading this book a lot due to the fact that it influenced me in many ways. The first way this book influenced me was how strong hope is. We underestimate many times how strong hope is. We usually complain and complain and never even think about hope. We just get down on ourselves because of the things that we don’t like. Let’s face it, we are lazy. If Ishmael Beah would have been lazy when he was going through his journey than he wouldn’t have achieved what he has so far. He stated “My eyes widened, a smile forming on my face. Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight.” This shows that Ishmael Beah was able to find beauty but how? It was through hope. He always reminded himself of his childhood and he had hope that it would be the same as it was before by finding his family. We need to start to incorporate hope into our lives. Hope will allow us to survive the hard times that we are going through. Hope allowed Ishmael Beah to survive so why can’t it help us survive something that is not even close to the level of what he went through. A great example for students where they could use more hope is testing especially AP tests. How? How will this even produce positive effects? How will this even help the student? Hope will definitely allow you to get a better score. When you have hope in yourself then you feel better about yourself instantly. This

Taking into account, the effects of storytelling and conversation in Ishmael’s life, it is clear his grandparents play a crucial role. Firstly, they provided him with many excellent stories, which led to him feeling compelled to re-tell them and in result regained peace at heart. In fact, his grandparents, especially his grandmother, are more or less associated with oral stories. She always told him and other children stories that were morally powerful and with no doubt memorable. For example, much of Ishmael’s life, or we had better say his

He gave them drugs which made lose their innocence. Ishmael remembers that his mission was to kill every rebel on sight. The corporeal taught them to be soldiers didn't teach them how to feel bad for everything after a kill because the boys don't feel bad after killing the rebel boys. His role is important because he turned into wild animals that be bad all the time. But he made Ishmael meet nurse Esther.

After my critical care HESI in October, I came up with a plan of action to help and improve my weak areas. I followed this plan to review the materials and prepare for the Exit HESI and NCLEX. The plan worked very well, but there were some part that did not. By using my HESI review book, Evolve adaptive quizzing, and Evolve case studies, I was able to get a better understanding with the weak areas. It also improved my ability to answered NCLEX style questions. I was able to review the materials, and answered questions, which allows feedback and allowing me to review on the areas that I still have to work on. On the other hand, I was not able to use the critical care textbook or listened to the old lecture liked I mentioned. This was very time

Another very important scene is Ishmael learning who he is. He leads Narrator from the scene of the tiger to his own self-realisation who he his. Ishmael develops the scene from being a captive in a zoo to being sold to a menagerie where he learned from listening to the visitors the difference between himself and a female chimpanzee with a baby in the neighbouring wagon. Ishmael connected over time the different sounds visitors addressed the chimpanzee and him to names visitors were giving them both. A minor leap allowed Ishmael to realise that everything has a name. Despite all efforts at that stage Ishmael was unable to determine the difference between humans and animals. One day a visitor he greatly admired came and after a lengthy observation

Memory is Ishmael’s weakness in the story, it haunts him everyday. He always thinks about Sierra Leone and

In chapter 2, Ishmael is terrified by the death and horror surrounding him, but in the next paragraph, he fully acknowledges the part he played in the death and horror. The army became his family and he was brainwashed into believing that each rebel killing is avenging his own family’s deaths. The boy soldiers became addicted to cocaine, marijuana, and brown brown (cocaine mixed with gunpowder) which gives them the courage to fight and the ability to suppress their own emotions. The reality was that it was their only means of survival. Consequently, Ishmael lives in really horrible conditions all the time and sees very little hope that his existence will ever

In chapter one, page fifteen, I was intrigued by the quote, "I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty."(Wiesel 15) This passage really caught my attention because, in the quote it shows how affected they really were. in this quote he's saying that, as hard as he tried to have faith in his god and pursue to the future of freedom, it gets harder and harder to have the faith when you have nothing left. I really thought this quote was interesting because it gives perspective on how affective this event was for the Jewish, they not only were leaving everything they had behind, but some of the faith and religion they carried with them.

1) I do agree with what Ishmael (Quinn) saying in the above quote. Ishmael is saying that people are not ignorant of the fact that they are destroying the world, they are just egotistical and thinking only of themselves. “I'm sure he knows that any species in the wild will invariably expand to the extent that its food supply expands. But as you know, Mother Culture teaches that such laws do not apply to man.” (133) If the Takers don't change the way they live destruction will continue to exist and humans having their minds set, cant change it. “The rule of that law was and is sufficient. Mankind was not needed to bring order to the world" (146). Ishmael is explaining how humans believe that the world was created for

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is an book which discusses many things, most specifically how humans see and treat the world around them. The book categorizes humans into two distinct categories, takers and leavers. There are many themes which are used throughout the book, such as captivity, identity, and evolution. One of the most important things discussed throughout the book is the environment, how humans treat it and how the takers are destroying the world through knowing nothing about it. This book has many parts of it that make it interesting to read, like the Takers and Leavers, all the different themes, and the discussion Ishmael has on the environment and how humans treat it.

The craft of writing is a complex one, filled with characters,setting,plot and surprises. A book will take you on a journey through many different lands real or fake, this journey is filled with twists and turns stopping at the end of the road. Ishmael Beah is a writer who took readers on this journey twice.

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

Ishmael Introduces the readers to what effect hunger has on behavior and human physiology in general. He also expresses that war and torment lost its holds on humanity that youth (the rebels) talk to elderly anyhow at a gun point. How the youth lost the home training and culture that requires respecting the elders and everyone in the community. The rebels forcefully subject young boys to torture, threat, and horrible sight of mutilation and brutal killings as initiation before they are recruited. Holtz (2017) expresses how boy solders are involuntarily recruited into the military by being kidnapped from their villages and forced to commit atrocities upon threat by their own deaths (p. 152). The recruitment is done out of no will of the recruited. All the sufferings brought about the break in connections amongst peers, unboundedness, and lack of confidence to the youth. Bears fears the separation when he was selected as the new recruit and his brother was not. These disillusioned youth who have no idea what could happen the next minutes began roaming the bush without any idea where they are going, what will become their faith, and how to get to a safe place.

One of the tragic parts of Ishmael’s novel was his detailed description of how these orphaned, lost children are taken advantage of as boy soldiers. These boys were young and easily influenced. There were many factors that led them to their lives as killing machines. They were brainwashed both mentally and physically. First, mentally by being manipulated to a certain way of thinking. The first time Ishmael introduces his life as a boy soldier is in chapter 12. First, a village that is occupied by the army, which is fighting against the RUF, rescues Ishmael and his friends. The rebels then start heading toward the village and this is when Ishmael and the rest of the boys are recruited. They are first given a speech by the Lieutenant, the speech

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.