Essays on Beah

Introduction:

The term war is basically defined as disagreement between two or more countries that usually involve high use of weapons in results in many casualties. When a country is in state of war, every men of that country is a solider but this is not the limit. Wars not only enroll men but it also affects women and children. The worse effects are imposed on the little innocent minds. Children are said to be blessing of God but war destroy all. History ...

The imagery of Ishmael Beah’s memoirs makes readers become witnesses in numerous acts of unimaginable violence. Instead of hearing about Beah’s experiences, we participate actively as we read further into the daily life of boy soldiers. Many of the grim images left me breathing heavily because I could actually “see” what Beah describes in each horrific scene. One scene in particular earlier in the book, made me realize that even from the very beginning, boy soldiers are able to forget their morals, feelings, and identities and accept only what they see. When the day-to-day imagery is ...

General Forum Discussion

In “A Long Way Gone,” Beah writes that a young boy he was forced to become a child soldier and had to deal with violence as well as death. Later in his memoir, Beah writes that he was discharged from his military duties and given to UNICEF for rehabilitation. Violence had become second nature to him, and the rehabilitation process was rather difficult for Beah. However, he was successfully able to be rehabilitated and went to live with his uncle. After his uncle's death, another conflict threatens to send him back to being a soldier again. Beah had chosen exile instead of ...

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Benjamin Ajak and Benson Deng is a classic example of what it means to grow up amid war, to live in an environment in which all one knows is war. The impact of this is clearly evident in this chilling account of the war in Sudan. However, historically, this is not the only account of children who have had to grow up in war-torn parts of the world. Other anthropological sources have indicated such circumstances for children, including A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and That Mad Game: Growing Up ...

Violence in A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone, the tale of his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, is a gut-wrenching tale of child violence and loss of identity and connection with others. One of the most intriguing things about the book is its depiction of the violent setting Ishmael lives in; after his parents were killed and be was brought into a rebel army unit, Ishmael “became a ruthless, drug-addled killing machine,” only to be surreptitiously handed over to UNICEF some time later and asked to integrate into a more developed, Western life (Rayman, 2008). Of course, there are many different ...

Transformation is a theme that has come out strongly in the three novels ‘a lesson before dying’, ‘A Doll's House’ and ‘A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier’. Through the stories, the characters are encountered by uncomfortable situations where they have to fight their way out. The hardships that they went through proved to be significant not only to them but also served the purpose of delivering the others around them. Despite what they had to go, at the end they appreciated the fact that it was in fact through their crisis that the others who were looking unto them ...

In the novel, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah explores the theme of overwhelming fear and the terrible impact it has on people. The hysteria war releases is instantaneous and causes people to behave abnormally and destructively. It makes people disoriented and react panicky and in a peculiar manner. It spoils relationships and creates distrust among people; even family members. It affects every single decision a person makes, as fear of death pushes him to choose a certain path. War creates a panic, which confuses people. Ishmael watches as the rebels fool with an old man, pretending to ...

Classic English Literature:

Essay :

In the novel, A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah explores the theme of overwhelming fear and the terrible impact it has on people. The hysteria war releases is instantaneous and causes people to behave abnormally and destructively. It makes people disoriented and react in a panicky and peculiar manner. It spoils relationships and creates distrust among people; even family members. It affects every single decision a person makes, as fear of death pushes him to choose a certain path. War creates a panic, which confuses people. Ishmael watches as rhe rebels fool with an old ...

In his memoir A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah recounts his time as a child soldier in the government army of Sierra Leone, when he was just thirteen years old. Now living in the United States, he looks back on his experiences at the age of twenty-six and recalls the intense suffering he endured during this war, including hunger and extreme privation, witnessing the torture and murder of many innocent civilians, and learning to kill and torture himself. In the end, he became as brutal and dehumanized as the people who had destroyed his family and home. His main themes ...

Introduction

The book; A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a true story by Ishmael Beah recording the accounts of more than a decade of civic conflict in Sierra Leone. The book is a report of how war is in the eyes of the eyes of a child who has been drugged and armed and then put send to fight in many conflicts across the world. although child soldiers have been covered by journalists and novelists have continuously tried to create stories out of the life of child soldiers, Ishmael Beah’s memoir provides a first hand version and presents the facts as ...

Introduction and main theme – death and civil war in the context of child soldiers

Sierra Leone in the 1990’s was a country torn by terrible civil war and great internal strife with the result that several hundreds of thousands of its people were killed and over a million displaced. Beah’s excellent book recounts one of the great horrors of this war, that of child soldiers who formed practically all the contingent of fighters during the conflict, in a sense these were initiated into war at a very early age and became familiar with weapons of murder such AK-47 guns and suchlike. Beah’s moving story recounts his experience as a boy soldier and the obviously traumatic ...