Ishmael's Violent Experiences

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.

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

lives were ended as a result of this unnatural disaster, most of them civilian. The people

The militia members assured the emigrants they were protected and escorted them from the hasty fortification. After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen, with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attached the emigrants and killed all of them that they thought were old enough to be potential witnesses to report the attack.

Ishmael reveals that he still lives by something he had learned during his time as a soldier. He says, “People like the lieutenant, whom I had obeyed and trusted, had made me question trusting anyone, especially adults...I had come to believe that people befriended only to exploit one another” (page 153). Since Ishmael has the idea implemented in his head that no one is to be trusted, he isolates himself from everyone and everything that has the potential to help him on the road to recovery after fighting in the war. Another example of his destructive belief of distrust is displayed when Ishmael meets his new family for the first time. He immediately wonders, “What if he is just some man pretending to be my uncle?” (p. 172) and struggles to show his happiness because he “had become accustomed to not showing it” (p. 178). This is just one of the many instances in which Ishmael prevents himself from opening up due to his secluded way of thinking. Ultimately, Ishmael becomes preoccupied with the idea that no one is to be trusted, which results in him isolating himself from those he

3. Fifty Patriotes pretended to surrender in order to get close enough for good shots at the soldiers. They killed one sergeant and wounded several other men. The soldiers were enraged. They killed large numbers of Patriotes and burned the village.

The narrator of the story sees an advertisement put up by a teacher who was looking for a student interested in saving the world. This upset him because he spent years when he was younger looking for a teacher with the same interest. The narrator goes to the address on the advertisement even though he thought it was a hoax. He lands up in a large, almost empty office which eventually leads him to another room where he finds a gorilla sitting. He then hears a voice communicating with him in his head which he realizes is the gorilla talking to him telepathically. The gorilla, named Ishmael tells the narrator about his life. He was captured from the West African jungles and taken to the United States and kept in a zoo. He was then sold to a travelling circus during the Great Depression. He found out he was called Goliath and thought about his disappointing life in captivity.

War causes death, poverty, diseases, destruction, and many more devastating and unavoidable consequences. The government drafted men into military service, giving them no choice but to separate them from their daily lives, friends, and families. Soldiers fight in wars while putting their lives on the line and are only rewarded with physical or psychological injuries. Countries wage war against one another in order to resolve disputes and disagreements between them. Individuals, such as nurses, soldiers, and civilians undergo traumatic events when they are caught in the middle of a war. Although some may argue that war does not impact the self the most, based on the informational text, “War Escalates” by Paul Boye, the short story, “Where

A significant event was when Ishmael saw dead people. This happened on page thirteen when a man drove his family all the way to Ishamel village with bullet holes everywhere in the van. When he got out of the car he vomited and cried when he noticed that all three of his children and his wife were dead. Ishmael witnessed all of this happen to the man and felt numb and nauseated. He realized that the war is getting closer and closer to the village with him and his family. A whole group of men and women ran through with stray bullets in them and some didn’t notice it until others pointed it out. The last disaster Ishmeal saw was a woman with her shot up baby on her back, but luckily for her the bullet didn’t go through the baby’s body. Now it

Another case was when Salva’s uncle was going to leave Salva, so his Uncle can fight the civil war in Sudan, and he overcomes this by continuing his life at the refugee camp, “He doesn’t want to leave me here, but he must fight for our people, I must not act like a baby, I must try to be strong.” (60) Salva did not want his Uncle to leave, but he decided to just accept the fact that

Based on Ishmael’s many MANY violent experiences, it turns out violence doesn't just affect one person or just have one victim. It affects not only the victim, it affects the people that witnessed it, the victim's’ family/relatives,the victims’ friends and community members. It may not affect them directly but it’d still hurt them emotionally and psychologically because they have lost a friend, brother or sister, or child. In this tale, violence never had only a sole person affected, it was always a chain reaction/spider web of people affected. Violence causes chaos and a feeling of unease and fear among communities and villages even miles aways. Violence even causes concern among communities oceans away (for example the United States with

Ishmael Beah memories in the rougher times of his life so he can survive. He had memories with his family and around the family's culture. The African culture show us how they share their culture and tell stories about the moon and his grandfather telling him stories about the forest lore. His culture has a big influence on him and the memory he had with the culture the bigger image to describe him and the situations he got in. The African culture and traditions play a role in Ishmael's life when he was in a state of depression because of the environment around him was violent which caused him to be scared and in pain. The little things in his family and culture that went along with his Ishmael grandmother would cook him different recipes

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults” (“Child Soldiers” 1). This quotation by Olara Otunnu explains that children are forced into becoming weapons of war. Children under 18 years old are being recruited into the army because of poverty issues, multiple economic problems, and the qualities of children, however, many organizations are trying to implement ways to stop the human rights violation.

As a a way of protection from the violent civil war throughout the Central African Republic, children are commonly exposed to weapons. By force of decision, these children have done the unimaginable; things a child should not do. This results in the loss of innocence in the children, growing up and being looked down upon by other civilians, and even by themselves. With over three thousand children by their side, the Séléka (meaning "union" in the Sango language), an alliance of rebel militia factions, stands against others, fighting for power over the Central African Republic. When other groups fought against the Séléka, the count of underaged soldiers boomed to six thousand. And the Séléka does not care about the treatment on these underaged

Although, some teenagers face their problems. They plod along through school. Some of them get after-school or weekend jobs. They learn responsibility. Eventually, they enter adulthood and the work force. Successful, confident, and eager to work. They lead their lives using the knowledge they swallowed throughout their education and the power they gained. But not long after, they