Montgomery bus boycott speech
Thy Nguyen
ENGC 0900- mini paper 4
Prof. Luebke
4/20/2013
A long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is a true story about a real boy, who is the author. In Sierra Leone, everyone had to face the brutality of war. Ishmael was a solid boy, who left everything important to him behind to survive when the rebels attacked his small town; moreover, he joined army to revenge and changed to be alive, then came back to become human again when the war was gone. His culture and the memory of his culture and family all were important parts in his life.
In the beginning, the author was a normal boy who lives a normal life in a small town of Sierra Leone. After the rebel came to destroy everything of author’s village, Ishmael Beah with his brother and friends ran a way to stay away from the rebels. “I still couldn’t believe the war had actually reached our home.” Ishmael couldn’t belive everything was happened. They were walking from town to town to looking for their lost families. When Ishmael Beah got lost, he used his memories to help him survival. He had many memories of his family, and most of those memories revolved around the family's culture, and the world they lived in. In the traveling, Ishmael had lost his friends, and he had to change his own world to got use to his current life.
When he became the soldier, he must change everything of his life before the war. He became glacial to fight to survive. “Mourning the dead wasn’t part of the business of killing and trying to stay alive.” ( Beah 149). In the war, he took drugs that helped him stronger to kill people, but his mind was a blank so all he could think about was killing, the enemy, and where he could get fix. He is an abusive drug that made him easily enrage and lost his mind.
After the war, he became himself again. “It was the first time I had dreamt of my family since I started running away from the war.” (Beah 165)The war had changed the nature of human. Thus, they
ENGC 0900- mini paper 4
Prof. Luebke
4/20/2013
A long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is a true story about a real boy, who is the author. In Sierra Leone, everyone had to face the brutality of war. Ishmael was a solid boy, who left everything important to him behind to survive when the rebels attacked his small town; moreover, he joined army to revenge and changed to be alive, then came back to become human again when the war was gone. His culture and the memory of his culture and family all were important parts in his life.
In the beginning, the author was a normal boy who lives a normal life in a small town of Sierra Leone. After the rebel came to destroy everything of author’s village, Ishmael Beah with his brother and friends ran a way to stay away from the rebels. “I still couldn’t believe the war had actually reached our home.” Ishmael couldn’t belive everything was happened. They were walking from town to town to looking for their lost families. When Ishmael Beah got lost, he used his memories to help him survival. He had many memories of his family, and most of those memories revolved around the family's culture, and the world they lived in. In the traveling, Ishmael had lost his friends, and he had to change his own world to got use to his current life.
When he became the soldier, he must change everything of his life before the war. He became glacial to fight to survive. “Mourning the dead wasn’t part of the business of killing and trying to stay alive.” ( Beah 149). In the war, he took drugs that helped him stronger to kill people, but his mind was a blank so all he could think about was killing, the enemy, and where he could get fix. He is an abusive drug that made him easily enrage and lost his mind.
After the war, he became himself again. “It was the first time I had dreamt of my family since I started running away from the war.” (Beah 165)The war had changed the nature of human. Thus, they