We’re located in Sierra Leone in northwestern Africa. The country is at war between a horrible government and an equally terrible rebel group named RUF. This group attacks a small village‚ here there’s no mercy if you’re not a big working-man. The family father Solomon Vandy is taken and ends up as a slave in one of the country’s diamond mines. The diamonds that are dug up are usually the size of small beads‚ but one day‚ Solomon finds one that is much bigger than the usual diamond. Solomon sneaks
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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 thought he would be capable of truly terrifying actions. It’s not all rainbows and skittles in Africa. Wars are fought by children‚ running around with guns‚ running around with the intentions of decimating anyone who tries to stand in their way.
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changed when several The Australian’s reporters claimed that Beah’s story was folly and said there were multiple things wrong with his account on things - namely the timeline. In one instance‚ the reporters visited the school in Beah’s home in Sierra Leone in the article Beah’s credibility a long way gone. There‚ they interviewed several of his teachers and former pupils who insisted that Beah was present at the school throughout the years 1993 and 1994 which contradicts Beah’s
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layer cannot exist without the layers underneath it‚ just like how an onion cannot be an onion without its many supporting layers. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah shows the layers of society through memories. Beah has experienced these layers through war‚ and explains each one in his memoir. The first‚ being himself. When an individual is torn away from his/her parents‚ moral corruption may be imminent. Once Ishmael and his friends are separated from their families‚ they are looked down upon by others
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family is something that keeps the main characters going. A memoir and a fictional film are similar but different in certain ways. Poverty is shown in the memoir when the war starts. Ishmael has to start thinking about ways to find food and shelter on his own. After losing friends and family‚ Ishmael decides to join the war just for survival. Ishmael fears the rebels will kill him so he has to avoid them. In the movie‚ poverty is
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is Sierra Leone and his children. Solomon Vandy’s occupation is a fisherman. He has a proud child; Dia Vandy. Dia is a 12 years old child. One day‚ Solomon accompany his son walking back home‚ while Solomon and Dia are talking about school‚ he known his son‚ Dia is a smart child and wish can be a doctor in future. But everything changed‚ when Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was destroyed their homes. Revolutionary United Front (RUF) is a rebel group to fighting with the government in Sierra Leone
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most lethal weapon they posess‚ it is because they have but little of anything else to try. Any country using youth of 12 or 13 years of age to kill its opponents simply shows the true face of its desperation. An underdeveloped country such as Sierra Leone serves as a vivid example of such doings. Through the eyes of Ishmael Beah we experience the extent of how cruel and merciless can humans be
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a long way gone ‚ written by Ishmael Beah is a true and troubling story of a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone‚ an African country. Beah faces many arduous struggles and carries out many atrocities while fighting that no child should ever have to endure. How and why does the army trick these children into doing these abhorrent tasks‚ specifically Ishmael Beah while he was fighting for Sierra Leone? From the time the children walk into the army camps‚ they begin to be brainwashed into
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soldiers. Young kids were recruited to be soldiers by both the rebels and the government army. The rebels would go to villages and destroy everything‚ they would spare kids that were Ishmael’s age because they wanted to recruit them to fight in the war. The rebels tended to line the boys up then select the ones that seemed to be the toughest to them. Ishmael‚ Junior‚ and his friends were stopped by rebels at a village and he was selected. Luckily there were shots that were heard by the rebels and
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Hollywood ’s attempts to coerce public opinion on their latest target. Blood Diamonds‚ the saga surrounding the moral challenge of the international gem trade. Based in Sierra Leone‚ Africa‚ in 1999‚ it depicts the story of two mercenaries fighting to locate a rare blood diamond the size of a golf ball. The local region‚ engulfed in a civil war between the government and the RUF (Revolutionary United Front)‚ is a backdrop for indiscriminate torture and murder‚ all propagated by the illegal diamond market
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