Child Soldiers

Poojitha Ganji
Mr. Hedden
Multicultural Literature
20 November 2014
The presence of war, and its aftereffect Ismeal Beah went through tough time in his childhood. These immense situations that he nitwits in his memoir are incredible. And furthermore these events exemplify his childhood and become a child soldier. The turned into a cruel human being and portrayed as a child drenched in blood. The children are in dire circumstances to survive and to strive for the family and his memories lost and his past that his is trying to lose due to the cruel person he became. One of the things that occur is that his friends instead of playing his hide and seeks games. They are playing name that gun and this signifies how children’s innocence is getting destroyed. Even his childhood got destroyed due to the fact that he became a child soldier after he got caught by the rebels. At one point he lost all humanity and didn’t care for his morals or beliefs. He just started killing, didn’t even think for a second how it would affect him later. He broke when he saw his friend’s died body he didn’t mind shooting and killing dozens of people. ““I knew I was hungry, but I didn’t have the appetite to eat or the strength to find food” Beah 49). The violence is the only thing that is keeping his past memories away and making them fade away. The starving children started to harass the social workers and behave abruptly. The brutalization was horrible and I began to think that I am the person and Beah enjoys it. The way beah is tormented my past hinders him and makes him even more want to live in the past. And the beah is done putting up with his child soldiers past. All the students in his school feared him because they found out he was a child soldier. Even now he doesn’t want to think of it and just want to live in the present and hope for the future. One of the things that occur is that his friends instead of playing his hide and seeks games. They are playing name that gun and this signifies how children’s innocence is getting destroyed. Even his childhood got destroyed due to the fact that he became a child soldier after he got caught by the rebels. At one point he lost all humanity and didn’t care for his morals or beliefs. He just started killing, didn’t even think for a second how it would affect him later. He broke when he saw his friend’s died body he didn’t mind shooting and killing dozens of people. ““I knew I was hungry, but I didn’t have the appetite to eat or the strength to find food” Beah 49). The violence is the only thing that is keeping his past memories away and making them fade away. The starving children started to harass the social workers and behave abruptly. The brutalization was horrible and I began to think that I am the person and Beah enjoys it. The way beah is tormented my past hinders him and makes him even more want to live in the past. And the beah is done putting up with his child soldiers past. All the students in his school feared