A Long Way Gone Analysis

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” wrote Martin Luther King Jr. in his letter from Birmingham Jail. Ishmael Beah, author of the book A Long Way Gone speaks from experience. He was plagued with a war in his home country, taking away his childhood and family. This injustice caused him to have to fight in the war and resort to drugs to take away his mental and physical pain. Similarly, in One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, Delphine and her sisters struggle with the injustice that is not knowing their mother at the ages of eleven, nine, and seven, and the injustice of being black during a time period when people are segregated because of their color. Their father hesitantly flies them across the United States to see their mother that they haven’t met before, and who has secrets of her own. In both books, the children are forced to grow up faster than they should and take care of themselves and others, and since they are children it is more difficult to deal with the situations that are hard even for a grown person. When a person is forced to start a new life because of an injustice, they are going to be nervous; but over time when they meet people, they will gain confidence to speak out.

In the book, A Long Way Gone, there is an array of different tones. The author uses them to shine light on the central theme and main idea of the story. The tone is important because it emphasizes the emotion of the text and the story being told. The author, Ishmael Beah, who is also the main character in the book has had a rough life. He grew up in the city of Mattru Jong, which is in the country of Sierra Leone. War had swept over the land changing everything and everyone. Beah was forced into being a child soldier at the age of twelve. By looking at the book, A Long Way Gone, one can see that Beah was put through things that no person should go through and it has shaped his entire world, with death, loss, and pain.

In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah encourages the opinion that everyone is responsible for his/her own actions in all cases. Beah proves this opinion to be true through death, thievery, and violence.

Ishmael Beah had a really tough life throughout his childhood and teenage years. In his literary work, A Long Way

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Autobiographical texts are not simple retellings of experiences, but the result of a complex process of shaping and refining ideas and events that take place in someone’s life. The texts The Damage Done and The Happiest Refugee by Warren Fellows and Anh Do respectively, follow two different stories of survival and chance. One, a tale of the dealings of drug trafficking, and the other a description of a brave and valiant escape from post-war Vietnam. Through use of structure and language devices, my views of these two men and their surroundings have been shaped and manipulated; for Fellows, the view that he is simply an innocent victim of chance, and for Do, that he is a family man, shaped by significant events in his early life. Language conventions

In this essay I’m going to be discussing three themes from the novel A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah. The three themes I am going to be talking about are survival, family, and war. There are many themes in this novel, but I believe these are the three most important ones. I will explain each theme, give quotes from the book showing the theme and then explain how they are significant and show the theme.

War is and can be defined as both a state of emergency and the liberator to a world so corrupt and unjust. The war in Sierra Leone separated families and ruined lives. How can a fight for a cause so right be so wrong. The Books “The Bite of the Mango” and “A Long Way Gone” compare and contrast Ishmael Beah’s experience to Mariatu Kamaras’. Both books are very different yet very similar. In The Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone both characters lose their childhood because of the war, but go through different journeys based solely on their gender.

We all have a story, we all go through tough things in life. We can relate to a lot of things and we find out that were not so different from other people. The memoir A Long Way Gone and the film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete have a lot of similarities and differences. Even though they live in two different places, they are very similar. One similarity would be that they are both struggling alone. They both have their parents but the boys are going to learn how to survive alone without them. They are two young black boys ages 12 and 13 that live in poverty. They become independent throughout their stories. Another thing that both Ishmael and Mister can relate to is drugs. When Ishmael was brought into the army, he started adapting to the other

Starting a calm day in Sierra Leone to surviving, and being trafficked into the army is what Ishmael Beah experiences as a child. A Long Way Gone is a memoir of a child soldier, Ishmael Beah, and the memoir shows the experiences he has throughout his childhood. Beah experiences trauma of the war just like all of the other child soldiers. Ishmael is one of the very little amount that survive the war. The three main themes in A Long Way Gone are the themes of survival, healing, and memory.

What did A Long Way Gone teach you from a historical perspective? What did Ishmael’s personal history communicate to you about the recent history of his homeland?

A Little boy forced into a man's shoe Ishmael Beah the boy who survived a war.Ishmael Beah wrote the memoir A Long Way Gone about himself surviving as a boy soldier for the RUF (Revolutionary United Front).Ishmael Beah writes in first person view so the experience is more involving to the reader.Ishmael Beah lived in Sierra leone a small country in Africa he was a little kid with his friends making a rap group on their way to a talent show until they heard screaming and people running.Ishmael Beah develops the themes of sanctity of life,loss of one's innocence,and survival under unique conditions in his memoir A Long Way Gone as an example of describing the importance of the memoir topic.

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