A Long Way Gone Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier

A long way gone by Ishmael Beah, attempts to evoke a powerful response from the leader, by using vivid descriptions to show how he has become emotionally traumatized by the acts of violence in the war. The reader then sympathizes with Ishmael and begins to understand the lasting and deep, emotional pain that Ishmael deals with on a daily basis.

His strength and spirit carried him through and he was successful while still learning a lot about himself. One thing that helped him survive the wilderness was by using the method of trial and error. How he used trial and error when the pilot had a heart attack and died and the plane was falling. He was flying the plane up, and down.

Ishmael shows that he is all of these poor qualities because he spends most of his time making himself microscopic to Barry Bagsley, the school bully. Ishmael does not put his hand up knowing Barry will mock and ridicule him. This demonstrates that Ishmael is panic stricken whenever it comes to facing Barry or when- ever he is in sight. Ishmael does not dare to go near Barry on the yard knowing that he will endure taunts and a variety of insults. When Ishmael states “Sometimes I couldn't even recognize myself” (p. 21) It makes evident that Ishmael’s self esteem is immensely affected by Barry in class and on the school

Ishmael took a bite out of the weird fruit he never saw before without thinking and Ishmael risking his life, but decided to take the risk his life from starving to death to keep him going to

You’ve probably heard of many famous wars like World War 1 and World War 11. What about the wars that aren’t so known but still have huge effects on people? In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, “A Long Way Gone”, every choice he makes decides life or death. Ishmael goes from a normal life in Sierra Leone to being on the run to survive the war. The struggle to survive makes Ishmael who he is after the war and how he matures through the war.

Ishmael in Hebrew means "God has heard" and has a pretty lengthy prophecy along with it given to Hagar by one of the Lord's angels. It reads, "You are now pregnant and shall bear a son; you shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heeded your affliction. He shall be a wild man, his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; alongside (in opposition to) all his kindred shall he encamp." (Genesis 16:12) Overall, Ishmael holds the meaning of one who is an outsider, someone who is unlike any others and may even be treated aggressively because of this. In the other verses found in Genesis, Ishmael is the bastard son of Abraham, born of his wife' servant Hagar, and therefore treated as an outcast, especially once Sarah sends Ishmael

Survival is also one of the themes that appear in the novel because of Ishmael’s past being in the war. He quickly learned that in order for him to survive, he had to hide his

I really enjoyed A Long Way Gone. Reading this type of book was new to me, because I wouldn’t typically choose a book like this for myself, but that did not make it any less of a great book to me. I cannot relate to the book of A Long Way Gone, because what Ishmael went through in his country is very likely to never happen to me. Though, I find it astonishing in many ways how such a young child went through such trauma so early in his life. I have noticed how the thought of Ishmael’s family was a driving force throughout the entire book. When the war first started and he was separated from his family, Ishmael always thought of them, their whereabouts and hoped to find them. Then, when he became a child soldier and killing became easy to him, his

The army leaders are trying to convert the recruits to want revenge. Like the text says, “Visualize the banana trees as the enemy, the rebels who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened to you” (112). The leader wanted to get into their mental and get them to think of things as something that motivates them to kill rather than the actual thing it is, get them to let their anger and pain out on others. In conclusion, Ishmael now does it without the need of someone making him do it and he is very comfortable with

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

save me!" (Page 9). That quote means that Ishmael is afraid of Queequeg and wants nothing to do with him. Queequeg's background history is also described in the beginning of the story. For instance, Queequeg was a Native from an island Rokovoko, an island further away from the West and the South.

Ishmael Beah had a really tough life throughout his childhood and teenage years. In his literary work, A Long Way

The more people Ishmael loses, the less he has to fight for- the less he has to hope for. Upon finding his family’s ashes, Ishmael is enraged- not hopeless. Ishmael’s hope is alive, but shrinking as Gasemu indicates when he says, “Your forehead used to glow naturally when you were just a child … We thought it was because you were happy all the time. Your mother said you even smiled when you slept. But when you started your troublesomeness and were angry, your forehead glowed even more…And here you are, it isn’t shining anymore,” (Beah 92). Ishmael’s forehead did not glow because he was mad or sad or embarrassed or happy. Ishmael’s forehead glowed because he was passionate and hopeful. The angrier he got when he was younger, the more his forehead glowed seeing as he believed in his anger. Despite the fact that his hope shrank when he was faced with the death of his family, the threat of the rebels, and the fear of dying, these events did not destroy Ishmael’s hope- Ismael’s hope begins its descent to nothingness when he becomes a child soldier and, consequently, a drug addict. When Ishmael no longer mourns the death of human life, his hope is lost. When Ishmael cannot care less if he lives or dies, his hope is lost. When he would rather continue killing as

This is shown when Ishmael says “I wanted to make myself disappear” P.G 46 this shows Ishmael has no self-confidence in himself when he is trying to help the Morfield primary kid from Barry Bagsley. Ishmael is a main person who puts himself down and lowers his self-esteem.

The main character Israel is a very heroic character at his because he is the most realistic character that people can relate to and throughout the story, and his heroic character is formed by the survival that he had gone through. For some people, survival is just a matter of having essential food and resource but for one who is at prisoner at war, it is much more than just the essential resource. Survival as prisoner at war on at enemy land. The methods of survival portrayed in the novel Israel Potter by Melville.