Freetown Essays

Everyone has experiences in their lives that might change the way we look at things. In the past eight years my family have made all attempts to save and plan for a vacation. Every year, we plan different locations and make all traveling arrangements ahead of time. Last summer, we planned out a trip to Sierra Leone. We were all excited and looking forward to a very relaxing time after working very hard. The experience I had impacted me as a person and changed the way I look at things. Traveling to

In our lives, we have experiences that can change the way we look at things. In the past 20 years my mom had been an independent woman. Finding her way to come to America with just me and also finding a job. Working really hard for me to have a better education and providing for me and also herself. Traveling to Belgium and Sierra Leone was a good experience, and I’m glad my mom took me. Learn who I am as a person and what I want to do in my life. This inspiring me a lot because my mom was able to

for the work he was doing as a teacher, leaving him struggling to provide for his family. Along with the mining company coming into the village, Imperi, and ruining the resources and the atmosphere there, Bockaire had to make a change. Moving to Freetown was the best option for Bockaire and his family in order to survive. Proving for his

A Long Way Gone is about a 12 year old boy soldier who struggles to overcome the Sierra Leone Civil War and get his normal life back after he enlists into the army because his village was starting to get attacked by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and that was the only way someone could survive. Due to being a child soldier, he was exposed to many bad situations for kids his age. One of those situations were drugs. When he was age 16, a group of men by the organization of UNICEF rescued some

indigenous African people, The Bulom being were the very first, followed by Mende ,Temne then Fulani inhabited Sierra Leone. In 1462 the first to explore the land was the Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra who mapped the hills surrounding the current Freetown Harbour, naming the oddly

spoke at the United Nations conference. As Beah sat around the conference listening to all the other children that represented their country, Beah sat proudly “behind the Sierra Leone name plaque.. [he] had a speech that had been written for [him] in Freetown, but [he] decided to speak from [his] heart, instead. [He] talked briefly about [his] experience[s] and [his] hope that the war would end” (Beah 199). At this moment in time Beah is in New York speaking for his country and for the children, his friends

Bloods Diamonds was a rollercoaster book in which there were times you felt the excitement and other parts of the book it was more factual making it a bit dry. One of the attention-grabbing moments for me was in chapter four when the author speaks about the usage of mules to transport and deliver the units of diamonds to the Liberian border. I never would have imaged that people will literally walk for over two hours back in forth to deliver diamonds to another country! The would supply the Liberians

The nurse try’s to get Ishmael off drugs and she dose succeed in the end because she won Ishmael heart by giving him cassettes. After a while in the rehabilitation center, his uncle “tommy” from Freetown takes him to his house and keeps him there. His cousins treated him like he is their brother; Near the end of the memoir, Ishmael get invited to New york city where they talk about child solider stories; There he meets Laura, who is a storyteller

Ishmael Beah was born in the village of Mogbwemo in Sierra Leone in 1980. The Civil War in Sierra Leone displaced Ishmael and resulted in him becoming a child soldier for the Sierra Leonean Armed Forces. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier chronicles the physical and psychological horrors of war and Ishmael’s subsequent return to society. While visiting a neighboring village with his brother and a group of friends, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) pillaged Mogbwemo. The attack separates

For this month’s SSR I read A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. The author is Ishmael Beah and the publisher is Sarah Crichton Books. The copyright date is 2007 and there are 218 pages in this book. The genre of non-fiction is autobiography. It is in Ishmael Beah’s point of view. The information is organized in chapters. The events are told in the chapters in chronological order. Each chapter describes a part of Ishmael’s journey during the war. There is not a table of contents or index.

Ishmael Beah has experienced extreme hardships ever since he was a little boy. Growing up in Sierra Leone during war causes Ishmael’s life to revolve around such. In the nonfiction book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldiers, Ishmael Beah shares personal accounts of what it was like growing up in a period of violence and separation. Ishmael and his family live in a small village called Mattru Jong. When Ishmael is twelve-years-old, his village is attacked by rebels. In the quickness of the attack

military were at. The two men went to talk to the Lieutenant and when they came out of the tent the Lieutenant went to get the youngest soldiers from the camp. They were ordered to get in the truck with the men from UNICEF where they were taken to Freetown to begin a rehabilitation process and go into school. Explanation: This event is the turning point in the life of Ishmael because this is the first time he was able to truly get away from the war since it had started. Ishmael is able to escape

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

A Long Way Gone is a book about the life of a boy living in Sierra Leone who takes part in the war that has been happening around him his whole life. This is a memoir written by Ishmael Beah on his life. This book was written to show how wars today are fought by children and how traumatizing it can be to a child. The book starts out with Ishmael living in Mogbwemo with his mother and brothers. He then moves to Mattru Jong to live with his father. The war hits when he is on a trip with his friends

Should Child Soldiers Be Banned Internationally? “What I have learned from my experiences is that revenge is not good. I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I’ve come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end…” (Beah 199). Ishmael talks about his experiences of being a child soldier, and why he wanted to become one. Now, he

experienced drug withdrawal and a huge amount of anger. After some months, Ishmael started to become close to Esther, a nurse that treated him earlier. She listened to Ishmael and treated him like a son. He soon found out that he had an uncle that lived in Freetown in Sierra Leone that he went to live with. He is there for a while, very happy, when he gets a call about going to New York City to speak to the UN about child soldiers. He travels to NYC, applies, and they selected him to tell his story. Soon after

through. Uncle Tommy and his family provided Ishmael with what he needed in order to live happily after just being rehabilitated and still somewhat angry. Ishmael stayed with Uncle Tommy and his family for a while, until the Civil War ended up in Freetown. Ishmael knew that he had to leave, because if he did not he would go back to fighting or be killed by someone that knew him. His desperation to leave is shown by this quote. “The entire nation crumbled into a state of lawlessness. I hated what was

The book A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a memoir about himself involved in war as a child. War began happening in Ishmael’s hometown in Sierra Leone, which was Mogbwemo, so everyone broke apart and he lost his family, except for his brother. He had to start running away from the war to stay alive, so he went with some of his friends and his brother into different provinces of Sierra Leone. They went from village to village looking for food, shelter and safety. Ishmael was caught many times by

As the boom from the transatlantic slave trade was being put into a question of universal humanity and morality, millions of Africans were still being sold into a life of victimhood. Amongst those millions were freemen being stripped from their homes, because of their race, in the core and coastal regions of Africa. The Neirsee Incident occurred on, “January 21st, 1828” at a “British owned palm oil house near old Calabar” (Blaufarb and Clarke 71). The Neirsee as it was stopped at the port near the

The concept of family changes throughout Beah's experience in the war. At first, his family consists of his mother, father, and two brothers. This is when he is very young. His parents divorce, leaving him with his brother and his father, along with a stepmother. As the war begins to affect Beah, his father is left behind. His new "family" consists of his brother and a group of their friends. "Family" is defined by many people as a group of people whom you have a strong connection to, and the experiences