Reflection On A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah’s journey began when he was about twelve years old. At age sixteen Ishmael ended his journey at a rehabilitation center having to learn how to forgive himself in order to regain his humanity and heal. Success for Ishmael was not fame nor fortune, success was gaining the ability to have control over his fears. Being a determined young man he made sure he reached his goal even if that meant having to do thing he'd never find himself doing.
In this memoir, Ishmael Beah goes through what no one should ever go through, having to be placed right in the middle of a civil war and losing everything he's ever know and on top of that having to become a child soldier. “Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to.” (Bean 29) In the text from A Long Way Gone by …show more content…
Beah here foreshadows that he will eventually learn that life-saving lesson. Ishmael now

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