A Long Way Gone Essay

At 12 years old imagine knowing that everyone you know is gone and your home is torn up. Imagine wandering in the wilderness and being alone. Imagine becoming recruited as a child solider, and being brain washed and drugged to kill people of the same culture. Imagine the innocence being corrupted and the pain being brought on. This is no life for anyone to live, but in the story A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier written by Ishamael Beah that has became his life. The story take places in Sierra

The novel A Long Way Gone was written by Ishmael Beah, a now thirty-six year old from Sierra Leone. This novel dives into the complicated childhood of the author, as well as many of his childhood friends. Published by Sarah Crichton Books, it was released in 2007 in New York City. The story takes place in the early nineteen nineties, when Ishmael is entering adolescence. This book predominantly takes place in Sierra Leone, a small country in Western Africa. As the book advances, it tells the story

In A Long Way Gone, the author Ishmael Beah laments about how “the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people.” He elaborates on these experiences and sufferings throughout the memoir, A Long Way Gone. He experiences these things when he tried to escape war, when he fought as child soldier, and when he got dismissed and sent to a rehabilitation center. War destroys the experience of meeting people, and one experience Ishmael had was his encounter with a man and his family

“Hope when you take that jump, you don’t fear the fall. Hope when the water rises, you built a wall.” An important message prevails in both A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (2013) and “I Lived” by OneRepublic (2007), taking risks without hesitation, being ready for all that comes. This song represents living life to the fullest, no matter situation, life goes on, never coming again. This would be an ideal song for someone in Ishmael’s obstructed position. “With every broken bone, I swear I lived.”

in the production of conflict minerals. For those directly involved in the production of conflict minerals, this includes enslaved children and the author of A Long Way Gone. As previously stated in the Child Soldiers PowerPoint, the conflict heightened in Sierra Leone on the account of these minerals (Dolhinow). The author of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, survived the conflict and experienced the uneasiness of a soldier. Additionally, Baindu described her experience stating that the rebels “forced”

Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah encourages the opinion that everyone is responsible for his/her own actions in all cases. Beah proves this opinion to be true through death, thievery, and violence. Throughout the memoir there are many cases of death, some because of health reasons and others for intentional reasons. Through family, anger, and survival of the fittest, Beah makes being responsible for someone else’s death known. After Beah’s long, treacherous journey

A Long Way Gone. Ishmael Beah. New York. Sarah Crichton Books, February 13, 2007. 229 pages. A Long Way Gone, expresses many emotions; happiness, anger, and sadness, all at once. Ishmael Beah, an innocent civilian who became a child soldier, learned to live life the hard way, facing many challenges, struggling for survival, and suffering from nightmares but have helpful memories. The novel, “A Long Way Gone”, documents Ishmael Beah’s youth in Sierra Leone in the year of 1993 during a civil war

In both the memoir A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, and in the book Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a war's ability to convert innocent children to vicious savages is evident. In Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys are taken away from their family and are stranded on a deserted island. They discover themselves in a position full of a thirst for power. The boys think that there is a beast on the island, however, it is just a figment of their imagination. The beast eventually leads the

In a Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah demonstrates Innocence within his adolescence to illustrate the importance of music and how it ties in with the common desire of freedom. The loss of innocence determines the perceptions of the world and the decisions made, ultimately resulting in happiness. In a Long Way Gone, Ishmael and his companions love and affiliation of music Clearly, throughout the book Ishmael and his companions demonstrate the desire of happiness not just through symbolism of music. Music

While writing a memoir, the author does not always have to be truthful. As long as the author gets their point across, then that’s fine. Most authors, in every genre, have either some kind of information that they add in to try and make the book more appealing, or have information that they take out because it's either not worth telling, or it doesn’t add to the point of the story. In the book, A Long Way Gone ,by Ishmael Beah, the author was talking about his experiences as a child soldier. “A bullet