Ishmael

sister opened my eyes to her views of U.S politics and culture. Making me realize that other nations look to us both politically and culturally in helping them with important international problems. Recently, I also read the book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah about child soldiers in Africa. It showed me the violence that young children have to endure in other parts of the world and how hard the lives they’re born into can be. These aspects in my life have fueled my love of international travel and

In the book ‘Don’t Call Me Ishmael’ by Michael Gerard Bauer, the power of language plays a very important role and is evident in many situations that occur throughout the novel. The book was fascinating in numerous ways and the power of language itself is shown in both positive and negative ways. The power of language is demonstrated throughout this book, for example, in chapter 9 when Miss Tarango challenges Barry Bagsley the so called ‘Chair Challenge’ where she claims to be able to force him

Ishmael Beah's memoir "a Long Way Gone" is a true story about his early life and his experience in the war in Sierra Leone as a child soldier. There are many symbols, figures of speech and images used in Beah's memoir. Interchangeably, there are relationships between all three of these terms in the book. In "a Long Way Gone" Symbolism, Images and figures of speech convey a very moody message to the reader, based upon what they are reading. These literary building blocks helped shape the memoir and

Imagine as a twelve-year-old what life is like, all the fun to have and the carelessness with little to no responsibilities. Now imagine, being twelve and being manipulated into fighting wars that can never truly be escaped. Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone is one of these kids. He is manipulated into hating the Rebels by the Sierra Leone army and brainwashed to kill all of them. A man named Umar Haque is doing a similar thing to kids, in which he is radicalizing them to commit terrorist attacks for

into smaller pieces. Furthermore, if people take on a project and try to do the whole thing all at once, they are going to be overwhelmed. They need to break it down into the smallest realistic steps and only do one at a time. In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah was a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. His village was attacked by rebels. Then, he was forced to join an army unit who brainwashed him into using guns and drugs. Later on, he witnessed a great deal of violence and UNICEF

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

to day basis. The book I chose to read for my summer reading assignment was A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. By judging this book by its title, I knew it was going to be a nonfiction piece focusing on one person’s experience on this gruesome topic. I expected this novel to graphic and eye opening about the life of a child soldier. Major Characters Ishmael Beah: The author and narrator of this novel shares his experience when he was a child soldier for Sierra Leone Armed Services

The Power of Guns Since guns have been invented they have held a significant power towards people. The power that guns give people have not been used for good but rather for bad. In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah describes how the rebels used guns to threaten people into joining them and to spread their messages. For example when Beah and his friends got captured by the rebels they used their guns to control their every movement and to scare them into following orders. “He was

Soldier by Ishmael Beah, I now have a much deeper understanding of the atrocities of war and the effect it has upon young people. As an ordinary young boy in Sierra Leone in the 1990’s, Beah grew up with a love for soccer and rap music. In early 1991 the Sierra Leonean civil war began and Ishmael’s life would never be the same again. The rebels, or RUF (Revolutionary United Front), would raid villages and kill civilians, rob homes and set them on fire. In an attack on his village, Ishmael lost his

Long way gone: A good book choice or not? “Things will change rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything” (Beah p.29). Long way gone is about the life of Ishmael Beah in which he experienced difficult tasks during a civil war and how it reshaped his life. “One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life” (Beah p.69) I recommend