The author of this text wants the reader to see how the family felt after being robbed. They were in complete shock. The family’s house got robbed of all of their valuables. Now their trying to find a new place to live. The writing strategy I used was tone. The author uses tone to show how she felt towards the family when they got home and realized they were robbed. The author of this book used tone in this text to emphasize how the family was in complete shock when they came home and saw that
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Chapter 1: January of 1993‚ the war hits home for him when he and his friends visit the village of Mattru Jong to see some old friends and practice their rap group performance for an upcoming talent show. Beah’s home has been attacked by rebels. Beah and his friends go to the nearby wharf to await the incoming people and look for their families among the refugees. When no one they know arrives after several hours‚ the boys decide to head back to Mogbwemo to find their families. The boys stop at
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A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier Ishmael Beah tells of a county‚ Serra Leone‚ torn apart by a civil war. He describes the injustices done upon his people that has been ignored for too long. In his book a long way gone‚ Ishmael describes the innocence of his youth‚ the slaughtering of the innocent and his simple will to survive and come back for the atrocities committed to him and by him. In the beginning of the book you read that Ishmael and his friends taught themselves to rap and dance
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The story told by Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is an amazing recollection of the effects that the extreme violence of war can have on a person‚ including physical‚ psychological‚ and social trauma‚ in which a boy tries to survive and escape his past as a child soldier. Civil war brings along not only violence‚ sadness‚ poverty‚ death etc. but also horrible conditions in which the victims that suffer the consequences are the children. Kids in third world countries‚ like
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memoir A Long Way Gone‚ the author‚ Ishmael Beah‚ relates his story to the title. On page 65‚ the author says: “We were a long way from Mattru Jong. A long way gone.” The title‚ A Long Way Gone‚ gives the reader a glimpse of how far Ishmael is away from Mattru Jong‚ his life before being a soldier‚ and how distant he is with himself. Mattru Jong is a city in Sierra Leone‚ which Ishmael‚ his brother‚ Junior‚ and a few friends travel to in chapter 1 to attend a talent show. While on the way to Mattru
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Brianna Selhorst Glenn Ames Contemporary World History 5 December 2007 A Long Way Gone vs. Blood Diamond A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and the recent 2006 film Blood Diamond both depict how it was living in Sierra Leone‚ Africa during the Civil War in the ‘90’s. While A Long Way Gone focuses on child soldiers and what they had to live and go through for many years‚ Blood Diamond focuses mainly on how the country is torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel
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Ishmael Beah was born on November 23‚ 1980‚ in Mogbwemo‚ Sierra Leone. In his critically acclaimed memoir‚ “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”‚ Beah bases his survival from abduction and terrorism on his recollections as an unwilling child soldier for the Sierra Leone Armed Services during Sierra Leone’s 1991-2002 civil war. They were fighting the Revolutionary United Front or RUF‚ also known as the rebels. Ishmael describes his circumstances in simple to understand language. He is also quite
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Life isn’t perfect‚ you will go through many obstacles but as long as you have people who care and love for you by your side‚ everything will be alright. In the book “ A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah‚ he transforms his personal experience into a relatable story‚ he foreshadows the danger that will come in the future‚uses substantial details‚ and establishes a main conflict. In the novel Ishmael Beah states the setting of the story in paragraph one‚ “The children of those families couldn’t
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A Long Way Gone Essay By Aaron Maddeaux Mrs. Baglole ENG 4C1 A long way gone is about a young boy and six of his friends. Ishmael who is the main character of this book lived in Serri Leona when we were first introduced to Ishmael in the beginning of the book. This book deals with a lot of violence. The author of a long way gone Ishmael Beah‚ not only plays the main character of the book but he also has experienced the novel first hand. Ishmael was first introduced into the war when he was
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In "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah the author describes his experiences in the Sierra Leone civil war. He faced many challenges‚ and this affected him in many ways. The Sierra Leone war brought Beah into conflict with his own humanity‚ specifically his will to live‚ his empathy‚ and his trust. To begin with‚ Beah lost many parts of his life. In the book‚ he says‚ "The war that forces us to run away from our homes‚ lose our families‚ and aimlessly roam the forests" (Beah‚ 199). When the
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