A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

There are approximately 250,000 child soldiers in the world today. Sixty percent of these soldiers are young boys, and eighty percent of them are under the age of fifteen. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah describes his three-year experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Throughout the five phases of the novel Ishmael 's personality changes drastically. It is more of an evolution than it is development. In the end, he ends up as an entirely different person

Memoir Studied: A War Change A Person John F. Kennedy once said,“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” War can only bring war not peace, war can only bring people dark and despair not bright. In the non-fiction memoir, “A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, is written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone, Africa. This is a memoir talk about Ishmael his experiences during the civil war in Sierra Leone. The civil war began on 23 March 1991 and lasted eleven

Nowadays, cross-cultural communication is one of the keys to survive in this society. It plays an important role in our society. The book, A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier, describes several cross cultural issues. This book is based on the true story of Ishamel Beah, who was solder in Republic of Sierra Leone. During his life time, he face a number of cultural shocks and tried to adapt each situation. Through story of his life, we can recognize some cultural differences and similarities

Book Review A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Jessica Jung AP Human Geography Mr. Reidy August 17, 2016 War creates fight among humanity and can destroy the minds of adolescents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a book written by Ishmael Beah based on his personal story of survival during the Sierra Leone Civil War. The book was published in 2007 by Sarah Crichton Books of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in New York. The memoir discusses the struggles of Sierra Leoneans

children are either raised in a way that preserves their innocence or a way that strips them of it. Some children are blessed with a so called “care-free” childhood, while other kids can only dream of the opportunity to live without burden. Ishmael Beah, both the author and main character of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boys Soldier, tells a moving story of how his enjoyable life and innocence were quickly taken away from him. As he goes through the journey of becoming a soldier and realizing the evil he

“Never underestimate the power of dream and the influence of hum spirits. We are all the same nation: The potential of greatness lives in within each of us.” The novel a long way gone memoirs of a Boy Soldier, an autobiography written by Ishmael Beah, tells a story about himself and the life he was forced to live as a boy soldier. He tells us how he was brainwashed and how his anger was influencing him to kill. Ishmael is a survivor because he proves to the reader that he is extremely independant

(Blanchard). In the true story A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007), a young, gentle twelve-year-old boy named Ishmael Beah reluctantly becomes a soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war. After Beah’s village gets attacked, he and his friends wander from place to place searching for food and shelter. They struggle to survive every day until Beah is enlisted as a soldier, brainwashed by the army to take revenge on the rebels who killed his family. He and the other soldiers get addicted to drugs

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier “Violence is never the answer.” This saying has caused many arguments, there are many people who believe that violence is the right thing to do in every occasion. However violence should not be a thing, violence can never be justified. Humans have gotten to comfortable with violence, we don't even acknowledge murders anymore, we act like it is an everyday thing now because we see violence so frequently. For example, in the novel “ A Long Way Gone:

their life. But when Ishmael Beah shares his story of the war he was in, Beah is able to describe the war in Africa in his memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, in such a way that is truly astonishing and is “a breathtaking and […] a truly riveting memoir” (Belinda Luscombe, Time). With every detail of the war, every quote said by a person explained in his memoir really helps the reader picture what his life was like.

Ishmael Beah is a young boy from Sierra Leone who tells his life during an imperialistic war in the novel A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier written in 2007. Southeast Asia also fought many wars due to imperialism from as early as the 1500s. Furthermore, industrialization, which was a cause for imperialism, can be seen in the 1800s in Europe. Most importantly, the rise of imperialism causes people to change their perspective of others and rapidly adapt to new ways of life; it affects countries