Essays on A Long Way Gone

Have you ever wondered how many books exist on Earth? Well, Leonid Taycher, a Google software engineer has an answer for you. With special tactics, he has concluded there are 129,864,880 books out there in the world (Joab 2). From childrens to sci-fi, fiction to nonfiction, and everything else in between. All of these books hold different stories whom authors have brought into existence. Every author has their own individual way of writing, the techniques the author uses shows a…

In 1993 the Sierra Leonean civil war has been raging for two years and death is spreading across the nation as the Revolutionary United Front(RUF) wages war against the government of Sierra Leone. In the novel A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier the author Ishmael Beah at the age of twelve is displaced from his home and given a choiceless choice, become a child soldier or die. Ishmael chose to live as a soldier. At this point…

The Soldiers at Yele were ingenious with how they enticed the young boys. They didn’t simply captivate them and force them to do what they wanted. They used well thought out techniques to gain power over the boys. They drew them in, made them feel safe, and then turned them against the rebels breathing fury into their minds then sending them out to do to the ghastly killing and raiding They enticed them into their little camp, making it seem…

In the book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah, The conversation of childhood is not a very happy one. In the start, Beah is an happy child who likes hip-hop, but it all get obliterated in the matter of no time. Innocence and war are two things that go together like ketchup and Oreos, but in A Long Way Gone, this becomes the situation. Beah was not alone, citizens from His country became entangled in the war and had…

A Long Way Gone is the true story of Ishmael Beah, he was forced to be a child soldier during a war in Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah lived a hard life as a kid, even through his teenage years he was still having a hard time surviving. In the book, A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah uses multiple symbols to represent the overall theme of freedom and oppression. The three symbols he uses to underscore the theme were, the cassette…

The book I had the enjoyment of reading was A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. This intriguing read pulls the reader into a life of destruction and chaos as the author and protagonist, Beah, outlines his life as a refugee of the Sierra Leone war. From the first page this book had me hooked due to its detailed first person experience. The book follows the course of Beah’s life throughout the war and truly inspired me to be hopeful…

Humans in the quest for development and survival have consistently caused irreparable damage to the planet. Everything that makes development possible and life worth living is extracted from nature. Humans in the quest for development and survival have consistently caused irreparable damage to the planet. Everything that makes development possible and life worth living is extracted from nature. These consistent activities that is extracting from nature have caused mass extinction of plants and animal species, pollution of water bodies, gradually…

Society, much like an onion, possesses intricate layers, each playing a crucial role in shaping human experiences. Drawing inspiration from Ishmael Beah's memoir, "A Long Way Gone," we explore the layers of society, ranging from the individual to humankind. This essay delves into the interconnectedness of these layers, emphasizing their significance in times of war and the pursuit of reunification. The Individual: Impact of Separation from Family At the core of society lies the individual, a focal point akin to…