Mattru Jong

freetown laura sent money to him. entry 2 in the first chapter ishmael and junior leave their village of Mogbwemo to go to mattru jong to participate in a talent show with a few of their friends to participate in a rap competition. A day after they reach mattru jong they hear news of mogbwemo being attacked. the boys want to forget about the attack so the practice their dance moves when people who survived the attack come into the city. so ishmael junior and the others wait in the village to see if they see their dad as going back is not an option. the second chapter begins with ishmael having a nightmare where he lifts a cloth off a dead bodys head and sees that it is him. he awakes to his present life in new york. he remembers the days where he was a soldier. The purpose of this chapter is to say that the horror he once endured still haunts him today. in chapter three ishmael and his friends are still in mattru jong waiting for news about their family but nothing arrives. but then a messenger from the most recently attacked village comes and warns mattru jong that there next. the messenger had ruf carved on his body meaning the rebels sent him. 15 days later the village is attacked and destroyed. in chapter four ishmael and friends wander for days for a place to stay and food they pass many destroyed villages and have to go back to mattru jong for money underneath a bed in Khalilou house. when they get there the money is not there so they are forced to go back.…

other people who wanted to cause him harm, he was captured by the Sierra Leone Military. They taught him how to fight and turned him into a child soldier. As an innocent boy in Mogbwemo, he was going to school and striving to get an education. He never really understood the war, as he said in Chapter One, “There were all kinds of stories told that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land.” (page 18, line 1) When he, his older brother Junior, and their friend Talloi…

A Long Way Gone by: Ishmael Beah Chapter 1 Ishmael (main character) ten years old describes the idea of war as entirely abstract to his young mind and insists that he and his fellow villagers didn't have the capacity to understand what the refugees coming through his village had experienced Ishmael, Junior, Talloi, and Mohamed sing rap music- learned during visit to Mobimbi (fathers and other foreigners worked for an American company) music has defined how they dress and speak January 1993- set…

Currently, Beah lives his new life in the United States of America. There are many life lessons that A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah can teach the reader. Ishmael Beah, at first started out as an innocent young boy living a normal life, yet his innocence was torn from him when he was entered into war. In the beginning of the book he states," to go to the town of Mattru Jong to participate in our friend's talent show" (Beah 6) . This quote shows the times of when he was free and enjoyed…

Ishmael Beah was a component of the child recruited soldier. He was born on Nov 23, 1980, in Sierra Leone. Ishmael and his brother fall in love with hip hop at such a young age. To them, Hip Hop is just a music and they enjoying it, not knowing that Hip Hop will later be a lifesaver. In 1991, The civil war in Sierra Leone started; Ishmael, an innocent young boy, on the other hand has no clue of what a war looks like. He would never think that this war, particularly will transmute his life…

In the novel A Long Way Gone by 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…

in his life. The events take place from his early teens to his late teens. Setting The setting is Sierre Leone during the 1990’s. The story mentions towns such as: Mogbwemo, Mattru Jong, and Freetown. The setting is integral because Ishmael goes into detail about the time and place. Characters Ishmael Beah- Ishmael is both the protagonist and the antagonist of the story. He is a dynamic character because he goes from a harmless boy to a child soldier. Ishmael then…

Ishmael’s reaction to violence as he is running from the rebels is presented by his reaction to the survivors of the attack on the mining area as Ishmael is leaving Mattru Jong. As a man falls out of his jeep sobbing and vomiting blood, Ishmael states that he “felt a sting in his heart”, and when Ishmael sees the man’s bloodied family, dead, fall out of the jeep, Ishmael “wanted to move away from what [he] was seeing, but couldn’t. [His] feet went numb and [his] entire body froze” (13). The…

I feel that the theme of the book is survival. At first Beah didn’t even believe that the war would reach Mattru Jong which was where he was staying. Once the war hit where he was, his life changed completely. He knows that if the rebels catch him it will not be a good outcome so he runs and hides for his life. A young, innocent boys life is completely turned around due to this tragic war. He becomes used to seeing blood and death every day of his life and at one point is seconds away from…

“A Long Way Gone” is an autobiography written by Ishmael Beah that composed of memoirs on his own life as a young boy who experienced the mental and physical battle of reluctantly becoming a soldier. Before a civil war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991, Ishmael had a normal life with his family in his hometown of Mogbwemo. When the war led by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) transpired, Ishmael and his older brother, Junior, along with their friends, were traveling to Mattru Jong to…