Connections
There are many similarities and differences between the Ishmael
Beah video and the article “Teaching Kids to Kill.” First of all, the main
similarity is violence and how children are being forced or being “brainwashed”
to do these terrible acts. Ishmael Beah was forced to kill but others are being
influenced to do this and the reason behind this is media violence. Children try to understand and mimic what is
on television and this leads to them being unable
to discern the difference between fantasy and reality. This is where they get
the knowledge and skill to do violent acts like killing. To stop this we should
start regulating what the violence industry is selling to kids, controlling the
sale of visual violent imagery to children. Just like Ishmael Beah children
are being led into the violent direction. The thing that differentiates the
children from the article from Ishmael is that he didn’t have an option, was
forced to kill and become a child soldier while other children were being
influence by the media to do violent actions. Children’s being violent is not
acceptable and it needs to stop.
Challenges
Ishmael Beah’s story was truly
captivating but how can a person go from being a normal twelve year old boy to
being a child soldier so quickly? He mentioned how he was forced to kill and
how he was drugged and traumatized to lose himself so he can kill, but how does
all this happen so fast? He also said that it was easy for him to kill people
and killing became his life and when he went to rehab he regained his humanity,
how does all this happen so quickly? At first it may have been a little
difficult to stop killing him but after a while he probably just returned to
being his normal self.
Concepts
From Ishmael Beah’s story we must
learn about why having child soldiers is wrong and how we should prevent this
from happening again. Violence and witnessing murders can ruin a child’s life
and they can probably never be the same again. After all that violence it is
very difficult for a child to regain his humanity so we should stop the use of
child soldiers. UNICEF and other organizations are rescuing child soldiers and
we should support them because what they’re doing is very important.
Changes
After watching this video my knowledge about
child soldiers has increased because now I understand what really happens to
these innocent children. After listening to an actual child soldier’s
experience my thinking and attitude towards child soldiers has changed
drastically. With a greater understanding on this topic I realize that we
should prevent and stop innocent kids from being brainwashed to become child
soldiers.
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