A Long Way Gone Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier - 1272 Words

The cultural movement of hip hop music was created by African-Americans during the late 1960s and was composed of chanted rhythmic lyrics accompanied with a repeated beat, also known as rap music. Rap accentuated the syncopated, perpetual rhythms of percussion and other instruments. Its popularity continued in the 2000s and it transformed from being the music of choice of the predominantly poor and urban into conventional everyday music, bringing people from all over the world together (Blanchard). In the true story A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007), a young, gentle twelve-year-old boy named Ishmael Beah reluctantly becomes a soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war. After Beah’s village gets attacked, he and his friends wander from place to place searching for food and shelter. They struggle to survive every day until Beah is enlisted as a soldier, brainwashed by the army to take revenge on the rebels who killed his family. He and the other soldiers get addict ed to drugs, including cocaine, marijuana, and brown-brown, to provide them with the energy and courage to fight in war. The novel largely deals with Beah’s resilience -- he is one of the few children who has the resilience and motivation to overcome suffering from the war and preserve hope for a better future. Beah uses physical descriptions of his love of rap music, his family’s wisdom, and his affinity to nature in order to explain his ability to withstand and recover from the horrors of beingShow MoreRelatedA Long Way Gone : Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier1121 Words   |  5 PagesThere are approximately 250,000 child soldiers in the world today. Sixty percent of these soldiers are young boys, and eighty percent of them are under the age of fifteen. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah describes his three-year experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. 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