Imokhai Okolo Mrs. Beaven AP English 12 13 October 2012 A Memoir of a Boy Solider A Long Way gone is a great novel that tugs at the heartstrings. A long way gone is the story of a boy named Ishmael Beah who is a normal kid with a loving family growing up in Sierra Leone. However‚ one day while Beah is off with his brother and friends visiting the village of Mattru Jong to perform in a talent show‚ his home village‚ Mogbewmo‚ is attacked and destroyed by rebel soldiers. Because of the attack
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By sharing his experiences in A Long Way Gone‚ Ishmael Beah helps increase awareness of the events that have occurred‚ and continue to occur today. Beah provides an intriguing perspective on the Sierra Leone Civil War. A Long Way Gone depicts the fascinating life story of a real person and is not simply summarizing a series of events. Ishmael Beah’s wrote A Long Way Gone to bring awareness to the many terrors of war‚ and to acknowledge the numerous people who aided him and he accomplished this by
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"A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah In Ishmael Beah’s autobiographical narrative "A Long Way Gone"‚ the theme of the story is to never give up‚ because throughout the book the main character faces numerous difficult situations‚ and manages to overcome them. First‚ Beah’s responses towards certain problems show the reader his will to survive. For instance‚ when Ishmael and his friends are all alone after escaping from rebels‚ he states‚ "we had no idea where we would go or even
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In A long way gone‚ by Ishmael Beah the main character ishmael struggles to good in a society that demands evil. As ishamel feels he is doing good‚ the lines of good and evil become extreamly blured. During Ishmael first battle‚ he fought angirly to avenge the dead that the R.U.F killing mercelsey as it shows in text “Every time I stopped shooting to change magazines and saw my lifeless friend‚ I angirly pointed my gun into the swamp and killed more people”(119). Later in the text ishmael is no
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A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah had a really tough life throughout his childhood and teenage years. In his literary work‚ A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier‚ Ishmael Beah uses symbols to underscore his central theme of oppression and/or freedom. The three symbols he used to underscore his central theme of oppression and freedom was Ishmael’s AK-47‚ his cassette tapes‚ and the drugs he used. Ishmael’s AK-47 was the most important symbol that Ishmael Beah used to underscore
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com For the complete study guide: http://monkeynote.stores.yahoo.net/ PinkMonkey Literature Notes on . . . http://monkeynote.stores.yahoo.net/ Sample MonkeyNotes Note: this sample contains only excerpts and does not represent the full contents of the booknote. This will give you an idea of the format and content. A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah 2007 MonkeyNotes Study Guide by Diane Clapsaddle
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the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah‚ this is not the case. In the beginning it starts off with Ishmael as an innocent child who loves rap music‚ but it all get destroyed in the blink of an eye. War and innocence are two things that should never mix‚ but in A Long Way Gone they mix beyond separation. So many children from Sierra Leone got caught up in the war‚ and were forced to do things that even grown men shouldn’t have to do. They were forced to kill people in inhumane ways and do drugs
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a long way gone JOTS (This text will make readers think‚ and may elicit uncomfortable emotions…feel free to jot your connections to Beah’s story.) Chapter One Jot Questions 1. Connect O’Brien’s analysis of a war story to Beah’s. You may jot a T chart. 2. Why did most of the refugees refuse to feel sorry for those affected by the war? 3. How does Beah explain his understanding of war in a way that American readers can understand? a. When was the narrator first touched by war? History of Sierra
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In the book‚”A Long Way Gone‚” nature is the theme and it is personified in it. That is because Ishmael in this story went outside a lot of times because his village is burnt and his family is dead. First‚ the war started which Ishmael and his brother and friends were trying to escape together to avoid getting killed by the rebels. And also he gets food outside like fruits on the trees‚ or other plants that can eat. That represent some nature. Another instance is when his grandmother talks about
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I’m not the kind to read sad stories about someones life. I praise Ishmael Beah‚ the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy solider. He put the unthinkable into words that were carefully crafted in order to make them perfectly flow from the text‚ to my head. The boy who was between the ages of 12 & 16 at the time‚ lost everything he thought would be his forever. His village was attacked by a notorious group‚ his parents were killed and his childhood was stolen from him. At his age‚ he never
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