Analysis Of A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone
Children recently are entering the military. All children, when they emerge from the military come out with 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. In the article it says, “They use to give us, the S.B.U, those small guns because if they gave us some kind of heavy …show more content…
In the article it states, “Thousands of children were involved in the decade-long conflict.” These children have been going through this stuff for a decade, who knows doing what. In the book, it says, “I took turns at the guarding post around the village, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder.” For a decade, children, thousands of children, have been doing drugs. From pills that ishmael took in the beginning, too marijuana, all they way too cocaine mixed with gunpowder. All these chemicals are going threw out there body for decades. Later on in life, these drugs are going to catch up to them and hurt their body and slow these function in the bodies down. There immune system and their brain might get damaged so much, that when they get sick nothing will stop the sickness from spreading. Than possibly getting more sick and being disabled. Thirdly, in the article, it says, “At age twelve, he took part in tactical ambushes.” At age twelve, he was already doing ambushes on the enemy, or doing surprise attacks on them. In the book, it says, “I didn’t feel a thing for him, didn’t think that much about what I was doing. I just waited for the corporal’s order. The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death of my family, as I had come to truly believe.” Ishmael didn’t care what he was doing to the guy. All he knew that he had a reason
Children recently are entering the military. All children, when they emerge from the military come out with 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. In the article it says, “They use to give us, the S.B.U, those small guns because if they gave us some kind of heavy …show more content…
In the article it states, “Thousands of children were involved in the decade-long conflict.” These children have been going through this stuff for a decade, who knows doing what. In the book, it says, “I took turns at the guarding post around the village, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder.” For a decade, children, thousands of children, have been doing drugs. From pills that ishmael took in the beginning, too marijuana, all they way too cocaine mixed with gunpowder. All these chemicals are going threw out there body for decades. Later on in life, these drugs are going to catch up to them and hurt their body and slow these function in the bodies down. There immune system and their brain might get damaged so much, that when they get sick nothing will stop the sickness from spreading. Than possibly getting more sick and being disabled. Thirdly, in the article, it says, “At age twelve, he took part in tactical ambushes.” At age twelve, he was already doing ambushes on the enemy, or doing surprise attacks on them. In the book, it says, “I didn’t feel a thing for him, didn’t think that much about what I was doing. I just waited for the corporal’s order. The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death of my family, as I had come to truly believe.” Ishmael didn’t care what he was doing to the guy. All he knew that he had a reason