different perspectives on life. The effects that the children have will be many as they grow within the military‚ and that they will for sure have life changing events happen to them. “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah and the article “Child Soldiers of Sierra Leone” are great resources that tell all about the effect they go through while in the military. The unfortunate perspective of having children in the military‚ is that they will be and can be programmed to do whatever adults manipulated them to do.
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4) In the memoir‚ Ishmael describes how children and teenagers were turned into soldiers. Young kids were recruited to be soldiers by both the rebels and the government army. The rebels would go to villages and destroy everything‚ they would spare kids that were Ishmael’s age because they wanted to recruit them to fight in the war. The rebels tended to line the boys up then select the ones that seemed to be the toughest to them. Ishmael‚ Junior‚ and his friends were stopped by rebels at a village
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The Effects of Violence “I was afraid to fall asleep‚ but staying awake also brought back painful memories… These days I live in three worlds: my dreams‚ and the experiences of my new life‚ which trigger memories from the past” (Beah 19). Quoted from Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone‚ is an example of post-traumatic stress disorder‚ one of the many themes and effect of war and violence present in this book. According to the Journal of Controversial Medical Claims‚ post-traumatic stress disorder
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written by Ishmael Beah is a true and troubling story of a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone‚ an African country. Beah faces many arduous struggles and carries out many atrocities while fighting that no child should ever have to endure. How and why does the army trick these children into doing these abhorrent tasks‚ specifically Ishmael Beah while he was fighting for Sierra Leone? From the time the children walk into the army camps‚ they begin to be brainwashed into thinking that the army is fun
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permanent home. For freshman year‚ my home‚ along with 119 others‚ is the connection dorm Sierra Madre‚ Tower 5. Within every room is a different dorm experience. Room placement‚ layout‚ decorations‚ amount of persons living together‚ light exposure‚ and neighbors all are factors that contribute to everyone’s first year at Cal Poly. Unlike the classic‚ beautiful appearance of the red-bricked dorms‚ Sierra Madre towers are dull‚ concrete boxes that resemble prisons without bars on the windows. My
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didn’t know what I was going to do with my life‚ I felt that I was starting over and over again.” Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah is a memoir of a boy soldier and the experiences he has endured during the occurrence of the Sierra Leone Civil War. Ishmael’s experiences physically‚ mentally and emotionally have altered the person he is and has become. Physically he is ambitious and loyal‚ and mentally he is immensely intelligent and logical‚ and emotionally and culturally he is
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Many are forced to slaughter their parents so that even if they want to escape from the militia‚ they are too ashamed to return home. The militia hurts these child soldiers to the deepest of their beings‚ and hurts them physically as well. In Sierra Leone‚ it was reported that limbs were cut off and order to inflict pain on the child and to scare away any NGO’S or the government. This idea of a child holding a gun taller than himself is what inspired me to write my genres. The genres I chose for
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gruesome war. He laments how‚ “the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people” throughout the book there are many examples of this upsetting truth. The consequences of this mistrust in people are clear as he travels through Sierra Leon while being incessantly threatened and assumed a member of the RUF. Most of this book is about the ongoing struggle within Ishmael between trying to stay alive and deciding who to trust. The phenomena of war and trust can coexist only if you
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Carolina Quinones Mr. Paradis English 10 11 June 2013 A Child Soldier’s Life The life of a child soldier is not an easy one; it’s full of violence and bloodshed. Children from most ages get recruited and are forced to do things that they are against‚ things that are against their beliefs. But although child soldiers suffer through many mental disorders‚ they can still be respectable adults. They go through many things‚ the recruiting itself‚ then the violence‚ after comes the horrifying rehabilitation
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seen as a message about the novel‚ as Beah is trying to spread awareness with this book‚ and not let anyone suffer the way he did. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a true story about the author and his first hand experiences of the civil war in Sierra Leone. Theme is defined as the underlying idea or ideas projected throughout a novel. In this particular book the theme is the underlying ideas of humanity‚ innocence‚ and survival‚ before‚ during‚ and after the war. Before he is involved in the war
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