Examples Of Trust In A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

“I was beginning to shake. The drugs from the previous nights, before we were brought to the city, had begun to subside in my system.” (Beah, pg. 137) It was a long process, taking many months before major steps were being taken in his recovery. It’s a good thing the hospital he was staying at had such determined and persistent people like Esther. “She threw a package at me. I held it in my hand, wondering what it was and why she had gotten it for me. When I unwrapped it, I jumped up and hugged her, but immediately held back my happiness.” (Beah, pg. 154) If the staff at the rehab. center didn’t have such determined and persistent people, Ishmael may have gone back to the front lines and died in battle and we would’ve never heard this story about him. Esther was one of the main reasons why Ishmael’s rehab. process was as successful as it was, giving love and respect and caring for Ishmael and acting like a mother that Ishmael really needed at this time in his life. Another person who changed Ishmael’s life was Laura, she was the person in Ishmael’s lie he needed the most and it may as well be destiny and fate that made them meet each other and for her to eventually take in Ishmael in New York

Ishamael Beah’s resilience allowed him to be adaptable to many different and difficult situations. In the beginning of the book Ishmael and his friends decide to go to Mattru Jong for a talent show. As they begin to go there they hear that the war has hit the mining areas. Ishmael and his friends knew that they may never be able to find their families again. Ishmael adapted very quickly and never gave up on trying to find them. “For more than three hours, we stayed at the Wharf, anxiously waiting and expecting to see our families or to talk to someone who had seen them.” (Beah 10) They never heard any news of them. Ishmael, Junior, Talloi begin to travel back saying goodbye to their friends. Ismael and they boys saw their first look, at what the war was about. They saw blood everywhere, parents carrying their dead children and people in pain. As Ismael, Junior and Talloi traveled

Early in his account, Ishmael Laments how “the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people” (pg. 48). From the story after the death of Ishmael’s family by the rebellion, trust and survival are being forced to Ishmael's life. Some of the consequences suffer from the violent is Ishmael have trust and survival issues. Ishmael are put in the condition where he have to fight for his own food with the boys. Go through survival by not get killed by the rebellions. He also have protect himself from starving and get killed. Ever since the attack of the rebellions started all villages are being scared and have no trust of the people not from the village. Ishmael is traveling with the boys and when he is going through villages

It is resolved when he is finally able to go to a rehabilitation center, and later moved to New York to live the rest of his life away from war. 9. 1. Ishmael leaves his home and family with his brother and close friends to go to a talent show in Mattru Jong. 2.

Ishmael was written in 1992 – just some 22 years ago. The way in which it is written reflects on the semi-modern environment that Quinn was living in. The narrator talks of the busy times of business and modern technology like computers. The language was mostly as people talk day to day these

Ishmael's story starts when at the age of ten, two years before the civil war erupts in his village. Beah

Ishmael created a plan so that they could write to each other, but when Hatsue’s mother read the letter written to Hatsue she was forced to end things with him. When he received the letter from Hatsue telling him she never loved him he was stationed at Betio. Before he went and fought the Japanese he expressed his anger to Hatsue in a letter he never sent. It read: “I hate you with all my heart, I hate you Hatsue, I hate you always.” (237) After writing and destroying the letter he went to war. From the beginning war was a challenge. First it was swimming to shore. They were shot at while getting off the boat, many died. Next after getting to shore they had to try not to get shot before returning to safety. Unfortunately Ishmael was shot in his left bicep, hitting his nerves and veins. When he returned to safety they had to remove the majority of his arm. THe loss of his arm definitely hurt his self-esteem. However the war affected him

Ishmael talks of the violent events that have not only affected him, but also something he helped create throughout A Long Way Gone. Ishmael's new American life is haunted by his

As the story moves along Ishmael’s relation with the civilians drastically changes. In the beginning, before the rebels reached the villages surrounding his home, he was accepted. He always would have a place to spend, and a host willing to feed him. They were carefree, and they could play outside with the other children in front of the adults amused eyes. As the story moves on the civilian stop being so trustful, and become suspicious of them. “This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy” (p.37). Rumours of their group is enough for the men of villages to come out prepared to defend themselves. They’re reluctantly given food, and shelter in some villages. Mother’s no longer trust their children around them. Around the middle of the novel, Ishmael and his group reach a fishing village. It seemingly is abandoned

Upon returning from the war, Ishmael moved to Seattle and slept with three different women whom he did not love, and whom he kept around only because he knew "when asked them to walk out of his life he would be even lonelier than he'd been before..." (355). And when he returned to San Piedro Island he was unable to stay away from Hatsue and finds a moment to share with her what his love, when not reciprocated-when it is not possible for it to be reciprocated-is like: "I'm like a dying person. I haven't been happy for single moment since the day you left... It's like carrying a weight around in my gut, a ball of lead or something... Sometimes I think I'm going to go crazy, end up in the hospital in Bellingham. I'm crazy, I don't sleep... It never leaves me along, this feeling. Sometimes I don't think I can stand it. I tell myself this can't go on, but goes on anyway. There isn't anything I can do" (333).

Ishmael Beah encountered many unexpected events and challenges, whether it’s good or bad. For example, he lost some of his close friends that he would consider as brothers. Ishmael states,

The reader could likely relate to at least some of the situations Ishmael faces. One can relate to hunger around the world that put many people in starvation. Hunger is a serious problems because numerous people are facing it every day. Ishmael describes in chapter 4 in detail “we got hungrier day after day, to the point that their stomachs were hurting and their vision blurring at times” (27). This is the effects of starvation when food gets scarce or when food is not abundant. Ishmael and his friends stole food from various people in order to fight starvation and survive the day to day journey.

There were times when they were separated and Ishmael didn’t know if he would ever see them again. As they strive towards safety, they witness horrendous sites which cause nightmares. Ishmael explains that his ‘innocence is replaced

Having trust makes one fell safe and free of fear enough so that they can focus on other things.

Trust is a value that was very hard for me to learn. I was always afraid that someone was going to hurt me one way or another. My mother was always telling me that I should learn to trust others so that they could help me from time to time, but I never could do it. Eventually I finally learned to trust others a few years ago. I have realized that other people can do many things for you if you just trust in them. This helps me in the relationships I have with my friends. Trust doesn’t happen overnight, it takes time. I have learned that trusting certain people is worth the risk, and helps the relationships I have with them.