Examples Of A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

Injustice is something that has affected us through history and the lives we live today. It can be seen in the racist acts that caused slavery,it can be seen in the deaths of those who fought to make this world a better place, for the future generation and so that maybe one day they could live to see goodness and equality being spread and lived through across the world. In many ways, these unjust situations have molded and shaped us into the world and people we are today, also causing us to thrive and keep searching for the justice we desire. The search for justice when all seems to be going wrong can be shown in the memoir written by Ishmael Beah titled," A Long Way Gone." Ishmael describes his struggles during the

He suffered the loss of his family, friends, and the place he once called home. He lived running from the rebels and having to learn how to survive on his own. Living in fear, he hid in a forest where he soon ran into some kids his age he recognized from school. (Beah 55)Throughout the journey, they began to become close and formed a really close friendship, but life would not let happiness rise in the midst of this war and Ishmael had to live through the death of someone he had learned to call family.(Beah 85) Injustice was kept awake throughout Ishmael's journey never seeming fully satisfied with the pain it was causing, it kept waiting for any moment in his life where happiness and improvement seemed to be present,just to drag him back down into this whole of darkness where he had to drag himself back up repeatedly just to be put down again and

He takes a bus and travels to the Sierra Leone Embassy, he goes through many difficulties,such as not having enough money and his documents, but although he did not have these things he was somehow able to enter(entered illegally). He felt comfort and safety and had gotten closer to find the justice he had been searching for. The significance of Beah's work and search as a whole is due to his determination of never giving up and believing that things could get better when nothing seemed to be. He saw the corpses of children and adults, he saw his friends die, he saw the way people feared him because all trust was lost, he lost his family and became a heartless soldier who felt no guilt in killing people. He somehow never lost hope in the midst of all the chaos and pain. He kept going forward and even cared enough to talk about the problem his country was facing, his act of never giving up is what makes his search for justice so