Ishmael Scoobie Language Analysis

My friends and I even had battles against my older brother and his group of friends who literally thought they were the real members of the boy band, N’Sync. This goes to show exactly how young and innocent Ishmael and his friends really were.

Barry torments Ishmael and transforms his name but Ishmael doesn't stand up for himself he just lets barry torment him this lowers his self-confidence by a land slide. Putting Ishmael in the dirt beneath Barry when Ishmael doesn't stand up for himself he gives barry that power and fear over Ishmael. But what gets Ishmael the most is the name calling. This is shown when Barry says “ Oh what stinks oh no its Fishtail lesewer” this shows that Barry has power over Ishmael and that Ishmael can do nothing about it. Barry torments Ishmael lowering his

Later on in the training, Ishmael has a sentence stuck in his head, “Visualize the enemy, the rebel who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened to you” (Beah 112). This sentence really gets to Ishmael in his training which builds up his anger against the rebels. This marks the end of his innocence as he starts to imagine burning rebels in a cage and laughing at

Ishmael started year nine thinking he can stay invisible like he did in year eight. But some students named “Barry Bagsley, Doug Savage and Danny Wallace” made his life tougher than ever by teasing him, bullying him and even sometimes embarrassing him in front of his home room. In chapter 13, it directly says in the second and the third

There were many instances where he actually felt very angry when he was bullied. An example of when he let out his anger was when he drew a picture of his teacher as a witch riding a broom. He felt much hatred towards his teacher after all of the times she has hurt him and this expresses the anger these instances caused him to have. This is also evident when he learned to always throw the first punch when living in the white world (145). He explicitly stated in the white world to show the anger he has towards the white people and this is why he will always throw the first punch.

One of the cases that showed Ismael ongoing struggle with trust in people was when he was saved. This struggle was prominently seen when he was approached by his nurse who was trying to help him. He got help from the UNICEF because the lieutenant handed Ishmael to them. When the lieutenant gave him away to the UNICEF he felt betrayed because he was the only one Ishmael trusted. Ishmael nurse was Esther and everytime she tries to help him he wouldn’t cooperate. He didn’t trust the nurse because for his whole life he wouldn’t trust anyone because he thought if someone wants to friends they only want to exploit one another.

In his time during the war Ishmael’s sense of security was constantly under attack. As

To start off, all of Ishmael’s problems stem from his original conflict when he has to run away from the war, his family, and his friends. The origin of the situation was when the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) attacking his home city of Mogbwemo (where his parents were). Later on in the month the rebels attack Mattru Jong (where

In the essay “A Language All Their Own,” Nathan Salha (2011) claimed that trademarks should be used “only to protect intellectual invention and the reputations of associated companies,” and Salha wrote that trademarked slogans only exist to regulate the usage of creative slogans among businesses and that they do not limit the freedom of speech (p. 476). Furthermore, Salha (2011) argued that trademarked slogans protect businesses and promote competition by allowing each business to customize its advertisements and distinguish its product from the products of its competitors with clever slogans (p. 477). Moreover, Salha (2011) asserted that trademarked slogans protect consumers by allowing consumers to distinguish high-quality products, which

Ishmael, in A Long Way Gone was made boy soldier. Ishmael went through many commands to hurt people and try to bring an anonymous message. Treating people with injustice without knowing the reason why he was even doing it. Showing corpses, dead people before torturing them and then killing them. Becoming brainwashed with all the task he was being told to do he thought that this was his life. Making games out of the torture and killing with his friends. Slowly giving up on trying to get away from the rebels. “People were terrified of boys our age” (Beah 37). Having everyone still around scared of him, not doing anything to help him, but just trying to get away from him.

Personally I believe throughout the memoir Ishmael’s life is impassioned, he experiences trust issues and has difficulty opening up to others. He slowly dividend self-confidence; pushing himself to be empathetic towards others. No matter what you go through, if you keep going and you have supporters you can overcome a harsh past. Ishmael was ten years young before his life path took a bitter turn. He was an innocent young boy traveling a journey from their village, Mogbwemo to Mattru Jong with two of his friend to see his mother and little brother. After two days of visiting his mother, Ishmael continues his journey to Kabati, his grandmother’s village still with his two friends. Though he visits his families during the journey, he hopes to

Ishmael was in the process of rehabilitation and could not stand the other kids because they were rebels, “We had fought for almost twenty minutes, stabbing and slicing each other and the men who tried to part us” (Beah 136). This piece of evidence supports that he is a victimizer because it is showing how he does not care about other people. It is almost like he does not even think about it when he is stabbing them. Ishmael is playing a game with his fellow soldiers and whoever did it the quickest would win, “The corporal gave the signal with a pistol shot and I grabbed the man’s head and slit his throat in one fluid motion. His Adam’s apple made way for the sharp knife, and I turned the bayonet on its zigzag edge as I brought it out” (Beah 125). This piece of evidence supports that he is a victimizer because it shows that he harms people without their consent. He is not the victim in this situation because he is not the one being harmed and is doing the harming. Ishmael fits the role of a victimizer because of the horrible things he did to

Although the lives of Ishmael and Shin were both horrific; Ishmael was forced to leave, while Shin did everything in his power to escape the terrible life that he had been living. Years in the prison camps were enough for Shin all he wanted was to be apart of the real world. However, this was not the case for Ishmael. Ishmael had been dragged into this life, and eventually thought that what he was doing was fun. Ishmael felt a thrill going out to fight, he thought that what he was doing was right because that’s what he had been taught. This is opposite of what Shin believed, Shin was sick of suffering he wanted to venture out into the real world; something he knew absolutely nothing about. Shin had an escape plan with his partner

Ishmael created a plan so that they could write to each other, but when Hatsue’s mother read the letter written to Hatsue she was forced to end things with him. When he received the letter from Hatsue telling him she never loved him he was stationed at Betio. Before he went and fought the Japanese he expressed his anger to Hatsue in a letter he never sent. It read: “I hate you with all my heart, I hate you Hatsue, I hate you always.” (237) After writing and destroying the letter he went to war. From the beginning war was a challenge. First it was swimming to shore. They were shot at while getting off the boat, many died. Next after getting to shore they had to try not to get shot before returning to safety. Unfortunately Ishmael was shot in his left bicep, hitting his nerves and veins. When he returned to safety they had to remove the majority of his arm. THe loss of his arm definitely hurt his self-esteem. However the war affected him

point, Ishmael is by himself and notices how he's much less suspicious but still not to be trusted.