One Day Ishmael Analysis

Without a doubt, the bond between a teacher and student is an extremely important factor in a student’s education. However, few seem to look at the effects of that relationship on the teacher, especially when the student leaves them. In an “Elegy for Jane” by Theodore Roethke, the speaker, Jane’s former teacher, reminisces about his former pupil and laments her untimely death. From what is gleaned from “Elegy for Jane,” the speaker’s attitude towards his former student is sincere, adoring, and loving.

War is devastating and tragic. It affects the daily lives of the people that are involved in the war. In the excerpt from, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, it displays a man who is dreaming about war. When the man wakes up, he lays sweating on the ground, remembering the painful memories that the dream has brought. In the end, the man realizes that from now on he will have to live in three worlds; his dreams, the experience of his new life, and memories from the past. Meanwhile, in the image, “In Times of War” by The New York Times, there is an angel on a cloud looking over the dreadful war. Then the angel walks away because the view of people dying makes it sick. The theme of the excerpt A Long Way Gone, and the image, “In Times of War,” is that the war brings death, seriously injured, and psychologically broken people.

David’s first impression of his teacher was that she is mean and very sarcastic with her responses. At that point he knew he was in trouble. So, he figured he should come up with an answer very quickly, or he would be embarrassed from his teacher response. Now, it was David’s turn to speak. He did the best that he could with the limited vocabulary that he had previously learned before now. There were a few words mispronounced and he assigned the wrong gender to the floor and typewriter. The teacher over exaggerated reaction made him feel like it was the end of the world. David took a lot of verbal abuse from his teacher. His teacher continued to belittle everyone in the class, which made them all feel worthless. David said his teacher once called him out as a “lazy kfditinvfm.” David became very sensitive after the harsh comment his teacher made about him. David decided that he wanted to prove to her that he was more than just a loser. He spent a few hours every night doing his homework, giving more time and effort to his assignments. David was adamant about giving himself a name and, more of a positive demeanor. However, at times he would feel a bit nervous and afraid whenever she’s near.

Ishmael is amazed by the riches of New Bedford, but describe it as a“queer place” and wonders where the wealth all came from. Then he assumes it was the whaling industry that made this place so successful. Something to point out is how he reference the whalemen as “us,” and giving himself a credit. The readers can assume that Ishmael either might have been a whalemen for a while or have a long family history in whaling industry. Back to New Bedford, Ishmael goes on to describe the town a “dearest place” to live in order to show the effects of the whaling industry. He does this by putting down or belittling other parts of the “back country.” He uses the word “frighten” and “bony” to show their misery and isolation from New Bedford. That

Ishmael is about a young scientist that can telepathically speak with a gorilla named Ishmael who will soon to be the teacher. Ishmael taught himself his education when he was able to talk to his owner telepathically to get him books. Ishmael helps the narrator realize that we can’t just take whatever we want from the environment and all of its resources. The narrator sees Ishmael for days in a row but ends up having to miss days to see him. He then finds Ishmael at a traveling carnival to finish the lesson they had. The narrator has an idea of buying Ishmael from the carnival owners and finally when he got enough money to buy the gorilla, Ishmael dies.

Bang! Bang! “At that instant several gunshots, which sounded like thunder striking the tin-roofed houses, took over town. The sound of guns was so terrifying it confused everyone” (Beah 23). In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah conveys his amazing journey through war and hardship as a child soldier. Sierra Leone--a country on the western coast of Africa--was embroiled in a bloody civil war in the 1990’s. Battles multiplied as bloodshed abounded and as a child in Sierra Leone Ishmael Beah was forced to survive, find food, and face unimaginable dangers. Running from the battle front was also a routine ordeal. At age 13 Beah was captured by the military and brainwashed into using guns and drugs. As a child soldier he perpetrated and witnessed a great deal of violence. At 15 he was rescued and taken to a rehabilitation center. With time and continual treatment, Beah was able to recover, to some extent, and reconnect with his Uncle Tommy who adopted him. He was later chosen to speak to the United Nations in New York City about his experiences as a child soldier. When he returned to Sierra Leone, war broke out throughout in the city where he lived, causing many deaths including his Uncle Tommy. Eventually Beah escaped Sierra Leone and he managed to reach New York City, where he began a new life. Through Ishmael Beah’s book A Long Way Gone, he conveys a central theme of having to survive, at a young age, through the hardships of war with the use of imagery.

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.

Have you ever wondered what the life of a child soldier is like? Well, if you have, then the story of Ishmael Beah may be of interest to you. Ishmael Beah’s story is one of hope and of humanity and how if given a chance any child who has experienced being a child soldier can eventually regain their humanity and live a normal life again. In this essay I will be telling you how Ishmael is able to regain his humanity after being a child soldier. Now, I will be talking to you today about what happened when Ishmael became a child soldier.

A Long way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah is a memoir that exposes the reader to a part of the world a majority of people know almost nothing about. An area where life is cut short by conflict and a blatant disregard for the value human life. Where Mothers lose their sons, families lose their homes and people lose their sense of morality. Yet, through these struggles, the resilience of the human spirit and psyche is exposed. Ishmael, through many points in his life was challenged physically, mentally, emotionally and was extremely close to being defeated; changed from the innocent boy he once was into a fiend. Important lessons can be learned from this struggle; Even the worst challenges can be overcome, we should value all that we have because it can all be taken away and also that there is much good and evil in the world we live in.

A Long Way Gone     Unlike most subjects, war has effects on so many parts of someones life. War comes with the cost of mental, physical, and overall emotional health. A Long Way Gone is a memoir that was wrote by a boy soldier, Ishmael Beah. The war in Sierra Leone started in March of 1991.

In Chapter 9, the author and Ishmael agreed that the fall of Adam was written from the Leavers’ perspective, since the knowledge of good and evil is forbidden to Adam. If it was written from the Takers’ perspective, we would force Adam to eat the fruit and become knowledgeable. We are so confident in ourselves that we always blindly believe that we are right, that we are special, that we are superior to other species, and that the world is made for us. This overconfidence is the fundamental reason why we caused the deterioration of the ozone layer, the extinction of other species, and ocean and air pollution.

Recently, everyone has begun to wonder the same thing: why are so many leaders so… corrupt? Why do they care only about a miniscule group of people, throwing aside morals altogether? The feeling of power creates a superiority complex, letting power go to a leader’s head and giving them the desire and means to execute terrible things. This is a problem because many people in our world acquire their power because others believe they can improve the world. Once power takes control, they become corrupt. It is essential for the public to understand this because otherwise, people in power will gain this complex.

He could have been friends with anybody else in the school. But he someone becomes with the complete opposite of what he is. “ I gazed dumbly at the four place settings… A hundred years had passed and nothing had changed.” (69). He didn’t even believe it when he first saw it he thought that he was dreaming still. He came there thinking that there were Turks living in the house so he hid by the toilet. He even realized the odds of this were next to impossible even though he gets kicked out later. He got help when he needed it the most right after had just lost his

In the book A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah encounters many “kind-hearted” people throughout the war and after the war. These people who have a lot to lose if they help him still step into his life and lend a helping hand that saves Ishmael's life. In the book the man who helped Ishmael and his friends with their feet that were severely burnt and Laura Simms had a positive impact in Ishmael's life.

The sacrifices we make today determines what we highly value in our life. Our willingness to sacrifice directly amplifies how desperate we are to achieve the outcome we desire. In the memoir A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah deliberately sacrifices his sole humanity in order to survive from the rebels. In other words, Ishmael suppresses his true emotions in order to remain alive. Thus, this explains why Ishmael joined the army and became a living killing machine.