Examples Of Personification In A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

In this book the antagonist was the main character Ishmael Beah. He wasn't always a bad character but through the suffering he went through during the war he changed. He was brainwashed from a harmless victim to a physiologically messed up tyrant. Ishmael would shoot to kill, bomb and burn villages, and slaughtered innocents. He did this to attempt to claim revenge upon the rebels who are responsible for the deaths of his family, friends, and the rest of his village.

In Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone, Beah’s natural imagery of thick, wild, and dangerous forest reflects his distressed emotional state and the devastation of Sierra Leone. Beah recalls his long and endless journey through the forest and expresses, “I walked as fast as I could, but the more I walked, the more it seemed I was getting deeper into the thickness of the forest. The harder I tried to get out, the bigger and taller the trees became” (53). Here, Beah represents the trees as the war in Sierra Leone because no matter how far Beah travels, he is still trapped in the war and the harder he tries to the escape the rebels, the faster the rebels catch up to him. Notably, this image mirror’s Beah’s mindset and the situation in Sierra

In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, a former boy soldier with the Sierra Leone army during its civil war(1991- 2002) with the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), provides an extraordinary and heartbreaking account of the war, his experience as a child soldier and his days at a rehabilitation center. At the age of twelve, when the RUF rebels attack his village named Mogbwemo in Sierro Leone, while he is away with his brother and some friends, his life takes a major twist. While seeking news of his family, Beah and his friends find themselves constantly running and hiding as they desperately strive to survive in a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. During this time, he loses his dear ones and left alone in the

In the book “A Long Way Gone”, by Ishmael Beah, a story of his childhood experiences growing up in Sierra Leone is told. When Beah was only 12 years old, his entire village was destroyed by rebel soldiers. He was separated from his mother and father during this attack. His brother Junior, some friends, and himself had to run away and try to get away from the rebel soldiers. Later in the book, the rebels keep attacking places where the kids are hiding, and he gets separated from Junior, the last family member he knew was alive. Beah has to continue on but continues to struggle living on his own. Even later in the book, Beah is recruited by the military of Sierra Leone to help fight the rebel soldiers at the age of just 13. Beah chooses to share

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a memoir of his time as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone Civil War. Throughout the book, Beah tries his best to hold on to his childhood, but it gradually slips out of his reach once he becomes fully immersed in the war. A recurring aspect of his childhood were Shakespeare’s works, specifically Julius Caesar. This is especially evident when he quotes a speech from Julius Caesar when he is talking with the lieutenant. These very specific allusions to Julius Caesar give the reader a glimpse of Beah’s mentality and subconscious decisions he seems to have made when writing his memoir.

In the memoir of Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah states that his life’s journey has been a huge obstacle, but has learned to overcome that struggle by venting while the two contradictory sides continue their battling. Beah accomplishes his goal of explaining to the reader his point of view through the use of rhetorical questions, scenic narration, and parallelism. Ishmael Beah’s apparent purpose is to share personal accounts of his life with his fellow country men, in a country where war affects people to a level beyond the imagination. He is able to apply his purpose using a grotesque and bitter tone. Beah approaches his audience of ordinary people in this manner in order to vent his feelings about war by

“A long way gone” was written by ishmael beah and published in 2007. The novel is about a kid that lost everything, what he loved “ I was losing everything that meant to me”. And the only choice he had it was to be a child soldier. ‘My squad is my family,my gun is my provider, and protector,and my rule is to kill or be killed”(Ishmael Beah)”

I do believe pure evil exists, some people were born to be evil. Most times it isn’t the evil persons fault, it is what they are used to and what they have been taught their whole life. In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah pure evil does exist. The infamous rebels murder little kids and rape women and they don’t see anything wrong with it. It is their job. The rebels are taught to be evil people. “The rebels were still in my village, angrily cursing and shooting their guns. At some point they pretended to be gone, and someone escaped and went back to the village. They captured him and I could hear them beating him. A few minutes later, gunshots were heard, followed by thick smoke that rose toward the sky. The forest was lit up by the fire that was set in the village” (Beah 35).

In the introduction of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, he writes, “There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country” (Beah 1). During this statement Beah says that he is completely oblivious to the war around him. These people living in Sierra Leone had adapted to the war to the point where their perception had been altered. With this memoir he shares his experiences and obstacles he faces throughout the war to become a beckon of hope in this despairing country. Ishmael uses his social skills, timely luck, and emotional strength, to find the courage to overcome these adversities and survive in and out of the war.

In the memoir A long Way Gone Ishmael Beah states “When I was young, my father used to say, “If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die” (Beah 54). Throughout the war Ismael Beah survives many difficult situations, that make him think is it worth it to keep running. Ishmael Beah, always remembers what his dad said to motivate him to try and keep surviving the war. Ishmael Beah used adaptability, the kindness of others and bravery to overcome the adversities of the war in Sierra Leone.

Ishmael Beah was at the age of thirteen when his childhood and innocence was taken from him. For example, Beah says “My childhood had gone without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen”(30). It happened so quickly. He was frantic with worry. Beah was forced to join the Sierra Leone military. It was not until later he himself started to believe he has lost his innocence. At this young age he was killing the rebels that traumatized him purely to seek revenge and to survive. His hate for the rebels was very strong, “Whenever I looked at the rebels during raids, I got angrier, because they looked like the rebels who played cards in the ruins of the village where I had lost my family. So when the lieutenant gave orders, I shot as many

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen...” (pg. 54). Throughout the course of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, we familiarize ourselves with the exceptional hardships that Ishmael has experienced as a child soldier, in Sierra Leone, and what actions he takes to overcome them. Despite the fact that Ishmael has been through these devastating hardships and that he became the fear that he himself feared, Ishmael is able to instill hope and keep the reader going through the themes of powerful memories, nature and redemption. He does this through the use of powerful memories that contrast the fear and danger of the war with the remembrance of the beauty of life. Furthermore, nature leaves the reader striving

Ishmael Beah had grown up in Mogbwemo, Sierra Leone, a tight-knit community where he was always surrounded by people who cared about him. Therefore, Sierra Leone was always a pleasant place to live until the chaos of the Civil War attacked

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.

Ishmael Beah was a boy from Sierra Leone who became a soldier in the country`s tragic civil war. He spent nearly all his childhood running away from the war and eventually ended up joining the army. During difficult times, Ishmael always held on to hope to continue his life’s journey. In A Long Way Gone, the theme is “Always have hope”, and is shown through Ishmael Beah’s hope for a better life, to find his family, and through the rehab staff`s hope for the boy soldiers.