Category: A Long Way Gone

  • Essay on ‘A Long Way Gone’ by Ishmael Beah

     Fear is something that can trigger frustration, which can lead up to hopelessness because of its feeling of being lost within one’s self. Fear is something that remains constant in this memoir. In A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Bech, one can see that fear causes frustration and eventually to hopelessness. Like most people, Ishmael…

  • Essay on ‘A Long Way Gone’ Themes

    In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, He shares his experiences that we can learn more about and understand and he guides us through his daily life. For Beah, his childhood is not very pleasant and he encountered the horrors of war, loss of innocence, and how humans can change given the…