Essays on A Long Way Gone

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…

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…

A Long Way Gone Essay The autobiography A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, is about a young boy who lived in Sierra Leone with his family. The boy, Ishmael, was exposed to war in his country at the young age of twelve and was…

A Long Way Gone Essay The autobiography A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, is about a young boy who lived in Sierra Leone with his family. The boy, Ishmael, was exposed to war in his country at the young age of twelve and was…

A Long Way Gone vs Blood Diamond Persuasive Writing If someone was curious about the diamond wars in Sierra Leone and wanted to learn more, it would be more beneficial for them to read A Long Way Gone than to watch Blood Diamond. This is…

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…