A Long Way Gone Summary

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and the recent 2006 film Blood Diamond both depict how it was living in Sierra Leone, Africa during the Civil War in the ‘90’s. While A Long Way Gone focuses on child soldiers and what they had to live and go through for many years, Blood Diamond focuses mainly on how the country is torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. The film portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to stop them from voting in upcoming elections. Both the movie and the book try to tackle major issues by asking the questions: how

“I have been rehabilitated now, so don’t be afraid of me. I am not a soldier anymore; I am a child” (Beah 199). Ishmael Beah had a long road to rehabilitate but he was able to rehabilitate because he had vital forces shaping him. In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, a long way gone, Ishmael was a child soldier in Sierra Leone. He wrote a memoir sharing his experiences of being a child soldier and of him rehabilitation. During 1991 to 2002 there was a vicious civil war going on in the western African country of Sierra Leone between the RUF rebels and the government forces. Ishmael Beah was a young 10-year-old boy who lived in a small village, he liked rap music and dancing hip hop with his friends. Ishmael was never affected by the war until one day when

Something to think about #10 For this weeks something to think about I read the book A Long Way Gone. This book follows the story of a boy named Ishmael Beah and his struggles with being a boy soldier in Sierra Leone. The book tells the story of how Ishmael loses his family because of the war and that he joined the war in hopes of avenging his family. Their were many of the social justice principles present in this book but the ones I found to be most prevalent were; Option for the Poor and Vulnerable, The Common Good, and human dignity and respect for life.

We all have a story, we all go through tough things in life. We can relate to a lot of things and we find out that were not so different from other people. The memoir A Long Way Gone and the film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete have a lot of similarities and differences. Even though they live in two different places, they are very similar. One similarity would be that they are both struggling alone. They both have their parents but the boys are going to learn how to survive alone without them. They are two young black boys ages 12 and 13 that live in poverty. They become independent throughout their stories. Another thing that both Ishmael and Mister can relate to is drugs. When Ishmael was brought into the army, he started adapting to the other

In 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.

A Long Way Gone is an autobiography which tells the raw, mesmerizing story of how Ishmael Beah lived as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Guns, violence and fear are reoccurring themes throughout the entire novel which shed light on the constant controversy over guns. As Beah recalls his horrific encounters with guns in his early childhood, it’s clear to see the power they give to a person. When confronted with a gun, people become desperate and are willing to do anything to survive even if it results in them abandoning their morals. Beah illustrates the abandonment of morals in desperate times as he writes, “And as the gunfire intensified, people gave up looking for their loved ones and ran out of town” (9). Guns also

In a Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah describes his life as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone Army and how it impacted his childhood. Ishmael’s small village was taken over and he was forced to join the army at the age of 12.

War is and can be defined as both a state of emergency and the liberator to a world so corrupt and unjust. The war in Sierra Leone separated families and ruined lives. How can a fight for a cause so right be so wrong. The Books “The Bite of the Mango” and “A Long Way Gone” compare and contrast Ishmael Beah’s experience to Mariatu Kamaras’. Both books are very different yet very similar. In The Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone both characters lose their childhood because of the war, but go through different journeys based solely on their gender.

Violence is almost everywhere around the world. It is somewhat unavoidable in life. In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael experiences numerous severe and frightful demonstrations of violence in various ways. These cases of violence scar his life for quite a while, however there are some learning focuses that come extremely close to violence. A few things that stem from the effects of Ishmael's fierce encounters are, repulsiveness of memories, posttraumatic stress disorder and a loss of innocence.

Starting a calm day in Sierra Leone to surviving, and being trafficked into the army is what Ishmael Beah experiences as a child. A Long Way Gone is a memoir of a child soldier, Ishmael Beah, and the memoir shows the experiences he has throughout his childhood. Beah experiences trauma of the war just like all of the other child soldiers. Ishmael is one of the very little amount that survive the war. The three main themes in A Long Way Gone are the themes of survival, healing, and memory.

The old man when saying, “We must strive to be like the moon” means that since no one complains about the moon and everyone likes the moon we need to strive, as people, to be more like the moon. We need to strive to be nice to everyone so that no one has anything to complain about when they are around us. This advise definitely can be applied to everyone’s life because everyone should want people to have nothing to complain about when talking about them.

"A long way gone" will be my choice as it gives primarily, an overview of the negative impacts Sierra Leone’s 10 years devastating civil war, had on children in the late 90’s. A long way gone is the true story of Ishmael Beah (the author), who became an unwilling soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. At age 12, he was forced to flee his village with friends from his rap band, after an attack from rebel fighters. Ishmael, his friends and brother wander from village to village in search of food and shelter, amid the confusion, violence, and uncertainty of the war. Eventually, Ishmael as a soldier by the army. He gradually became a fierce killing machine capable of horrible violence. With the army being his new home, he was brainwashed

War is horrific no matter where it takes place. Mothers, fathers, elders, and children are all affected by war. In fact, there are many memoirs depicting life in war torn countries. Two such memoirs are A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah and The Bite of The Mango written by Mariatu Kamara. A Long Way Gone depicts Ishmael’s life running from the civil war in Sierra Leone and becoming a child soldier. The Bite of The Mango recounts Mariatu’s journey of losing her hands and escaping to different countries is written with the help of Susan McClellan. Both writers go through traumatic events due to Sierra Leone’s Civil War, but Ishmael’s will to live was more tenacious than Mariatu’s.

I didn't know some armies or militaries get kids to fight for them and if they are orphans they make them believe that every single rebel they fight make it seem like those are the rebels that killed their family members or parents,which is bad considering that there are adults willing to fight and they pick sad mournful kids to take their battles to enrage them to make them fight.I didn't know that some people can talk about the death of parents without getting sentimental about it some people don't share about it or write a book about it at all I wouldn't grief about it but I wouldn't talk about and probably see a therapist if it get worse but since he didn't have anybody

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