A Long Way Gone Essay

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Should child soldiers be given amnesty is a dispute that has been brought up recently. Lots of news and articles are discussing and informing what a child soldier is and what they have done. “Child soldier” is a shorthand term for a girl or boy under the age of 18 recruited or used by any armed force or armed group...
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How important is your family to you? To me my family is very important because they are the people I care the most about and I would do anything for them. In A long way gone a memoir written by Ishmael Beah is about a young boy named Ishmael Beah and how he went from being an ordinary child that...
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Ishmael Beah’s book A Long Way Gone tells a horrific story of how of Beah was impacted by violence. Beah grows up in a violent setting and his exposure to violence has an impact on his beliefs and emotions. The impact of being exposed to violence at such a young age causes damage to Beah’s mental and emotional well-being. Specifically,...
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War strangles all the hope you have and breaks all the shells of survival to sink in a sea of loss. The book “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier” (2007) published by Sarah Crichton Books and written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. It revolves around Ishmael Beah’s life in Sierra Leone during the war,...
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In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah gives the readers a different perspective on the experience of child soldiers through imagery, personnification and flashbacks. A Long Way Gone is an autobiography by this author, Ishmael Beah who was he himself, a child soldier. In his book he tells the reader in exact detail the story of his life back in...
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The armed conflicts of the world can affect a child’s life by causing a loss of innocence within the child. A Long Way Gone tells us the story of a child solider residing in Sierra Leone, who loses his innocence due to the civil war in Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah shares how the wrongdoings of the world can affect a...
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Comparing the themes in A Long Way Gone and Five Chimneys Situations that have happened in your lifetime do not define who you are or what your future is like. It doesn't matter how challenging the circumstances were for both of them, Ishmael Beah and Olga Lengyel still carried on with both of their lives. These two stories deal with...
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Background Before I read this book I knew that is was about a twelve-year-old boy who became a soldier boy with his friends while his village was being attacked. I chose this book because I've always had an interest in children’s experiences during warfare. A child’s life during warfare is more interesting to me because children aren’t as exposed to...
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In recent times, the stories of civil wars and ethnic conflicts in Africa have shocked the world. In particular, children felt the blunt side of the war as the conflicts have led to separation from their parents. The book, A Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah gives the reader insight into the effect and nature...
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In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, He shares his experiences that we can learn more about and understand and he guides us through his daily life. For Beah, his childhood is not very pleasant and he encountered the horrors of war, loss of innocence, and how humans can change given the circumstances they endure. Throughout the...
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 Fear is something that can trigger frustration, which can lead up to hopelessness because of its feeling of being lost within one's self. Fear is something that remains constant in this memoir. In A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Bech, one can see that fear causes frustration and eventually to hopelessness. Like most people, Ishmael fears life and death, as...
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The memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and A Bite of a Mango by Mariatu Kamara is set in the tragic Sierra Leone war of the early 1990s. Ishmael and Mariatu, respectively, share a tragic experience of terror that is still with them, and we're thankful to seek and meet others to rely on throughout the war. Beah's...
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