Ishmael Beah Quotes

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Bryson Couch 669 words
Ms. Maggert
Honors English III
18 May 2016
The Boy Soldier We all fight different wars. These wars can physically and mentally traumatize us as people. Mentally rehabilitation is necessary to bring back peace of mind. Love ones being murdered in cold blood, torturous scenes, and death that we could never imagine as a United States citizen led ishmael beah on a path of revenge. Violence is used to cope in some cases, but it can only lead to more death. In this novel, violence is used as a way to express inner anger and as a way to deal with many fatalities. Violence is seen at many angles in this book whether you’re being shot at, tortured, or beaten severely. A Long Way Gone [book titles always get italicized, not underlined or quote marks] is a simple memoir describing horrific events that ishmael beah experienced in his childhood. Ishmael Beah wrote, “ I especially enjoyed burning this village today.” (Author pg). This quote explains how Beah was transformed to a young soldier from a fragile boy by his war stricken country. …show more content…

Beah struggled and it was easy to tell that the violence he saw changed him. Things started to steadily improve for him, but he knew all the killing he did will never be extinguished from his mind. Adjusting back to a modern day society was unknown to him, but he somehow accomplished his goal. He is now a Children's rights leader, and wants to end global child wars. Beah said, “ What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.” The horrors he faced can not be relinquished from his mind. They will forever be with him, and the goal of this novel is to notify everyday people about the ongoing child wars in foreign

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