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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah follows Beah as he experiences the invasion of his home and his becoming of a child solider. In the memoir, chapter four and five sees Ishmael go retreat back to his home with his brothers as he has nothing else to live off of. As the boys walk through their hometown, they witness the carnage and aftermath of the rebel attack. They are unable to put words to their shared horror, and they are unsure of what they can do for each other. However, their hunger is more…

Picture this: You’re only a fourteen-year-old juvenile and have already fought in numerous battles in an army in which you murdered tons of people and perpetrated many crimes. Meanwhile, you have also cried, bled, screamed, and almost died. You have now finally run away from all the horrors you executed and from the people trying to harm you, hoping that you’re free from all the threats. But only to find that you’re still a victim, but this time the government is the one out to get you. Several…

When choosing whether or not to include a specific text in the curriculum, an English teacher must consider many things to determine the story’s relevance, such as the content of the story and universal themes. Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone is appropriate for the Sterling High School English IV curriculum because of its use of complex ideas and universal themes that make this text a worthy champion for the curriculum. Beah’s extensive and sophisticated figurative language appeal to the…

war looks like. He would never think that this war, particularly will transmute his life forever. Unknowingly, Ishmael and his friends included his brother went to Mattru Jong for performance and this journey will be the last path Ishmael will walk happily as an inculpable puerile boy. Ishmael first sight of deaths was in Mattru Jong, his grandmother's village, when…

Salva is a young boy in a tribe called the Dinka tribe. They are enemies with the Nuer tribe. A war breaks out while Salva is in school and his teacher tells him to run into the bush away from home. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water. The book describes the struggle for Salva, who had to run away because a war broke out. The outline of the story shows that in reality, many kids face this trouble. Salva proves that people are capable of being able to survive on…

For starters, towards the beginning of the memoir Beah and his friends are off to Mattru Jong to rap in a talent show. The boys, “(Had) loaded (their) backpacks…Since (they) intended to return the next day, (they) didn’t say goodbye or tell anyone where (they) were going”(7). Here, Beah aluminates figurative language by foreshadowing his future…

(Beah 124). In the Memoir “a long way gone” by Ishmael Beah, sees 12-year-old Ishmael trying to survive in the war stricken country of Sierra Leone. Ishmael is just an ordinary boy when the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) attacks his home of Mattru Jong, while he is away in a neighboring city. For the next year Ishmael runs away from the war desperate to find his family. He journeys with a group of boys, but soon loses them to the chaos and is alone trying to endure on his own. After being…

In the story A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, we follow the life of the author himself, from the young age of nine years old to when he is about fifteen years old. We see his struggles living life in a time where violence and death held a firm grip on Sierra Leone, and how he lost his entire childhood both running away from the war, and being a part of it as well. Before this novel, I had somewhat of a vague understanding of the civil war that had occurred in Sierra Leone. I watched certain…

Ishmael Beah we can see two major aspects of shared humanity the first of which being loss, and the second, survival. Ishmael is a boy who lives in the town of Mogwebo. He and his friends started a rap group and decided to go to a talent show in Mattru Jong which was a town a few miles away. During this time a civil war was happening between the government and the rebels who sought to “free” the inhabitants by killing them all except for the boys who they would draft into their army.…

The novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah have many different symbols placed throughout the book. The 3 main ones I found were his rap cassette, his shoes, and the moon. The rap cassette is a huge part of the novel. The cassette represents his childhood and playfulness as his keeps it in his pocket even though he doesn’t have a tape player with him until he becomes a soldier. Later on in the novel we see when Beah joins the army, the cassette is burned by the soldiers, and with it goes his…