As Ishmael explained all that he had gone through in his journey of being a child soldier to being free‚ he uses diction in his writing to make the story easier to understand. A lot of times many writers use different types of diction so that the writing has a clearer meaning to the reader. In this memoir‚ Ishmael was able to use different types of diction for the reader to be able to understand the importance of scenes while in the war. “I stood there holding my gun and felt special because I was
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A Long Way Gone What was the author saying about life and living through this book? I think what the author was saying life is really hard and sometimes it knocks you know and you don’t know if you can go on that sounds cliche but it is true. He is telling us that if made it through his incredibly hard story that has scarred him for life and still haunts him. He is showing us that we can make it through rough times too if we just don’t give up and continue to have positive thoughts and be confident
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. Explain how this last message reverberates throughout A Long Way Gone. The last message in A Long Way Gone was a story about a talking monkey. The monkey gives the boy solider a decision. The monkey says that if he shoots him his mother will die‚ but if he doesn’t shoot his father will die. So this message brings out the family connections in the book. It also shows the compassion and love he has for others and his family. So‚ when seeing the mother tell her child about the story he‚ concludes
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Approach Paper A Long Way Gone Katyana Nguyen 9 January 2012 Honors World History I.Summary A Long Way Gone tells the true story of Ishmael Beah‚ a boy turned child soldier during a civil war in Sierra Leone. The violence and hardships of war throw Ishmael and a group of his friends in a struggle for survival‚ committing acts that they never knew they were capable of. Ishmael and his friends are transformed into violent‚ brainwashed soldiers to kill rebels. After some time‚ they are
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Evidently‚ as Ishmael Beah became a child soldier‚ his story would present a loss of innocence. The hardships and violence of war had been given in the perspective of a child‚ as Beah describes his experiences simply and without judgement. The Rebel attacks on his village and neighboring villages may have traumatized Beah but however‚ not have caused him to lose his innocence. He maintains it by pondering over old childhood memories and his ability to rekindle his sense of wonder. For example‚ Beah and his
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The memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is about Beah’s life before‚ during‚ and after being a child soldier. After Beah’s village‚ Mogbwemo‚ was invaded‚ he was on the run from the war. Eventually he joined the army and fought against the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The RUF was fighting to free Sierra Leone from their corrupt ABC government. When Beah was sixteen he was taken out of the war and was put into a rehabilitation center. There he had treatment for his physical and mental injuries
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Abby Leavengood HWL P. 5 9-26-12 A Long Way Gone Essay In Ismael Beah’s A Long Way Gone‚ violence and child soldier’s struggles is a major and common point. These passages were heart wrenching and difficult to get through. Beah went through a lot of hard times but he survived and pulled through with incredible strength and courage‚ even when that was not an easy thing to even think about doing. I believe that even though violence is an awful thing that no child should have to endure‚ I learned
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A Long Way Gone is the story of a man who was formerly a child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war. The civil war lasted from March 23‚ 1991 until January 18‚ 2002. This civil war tore families in Sierra Leone apart‚ and A Long Way Gone is an amazing representation of what it was like to be there during this time. In Chapter 12 of the memoir‚ Ishmael‚ the main character‚ and his friends from his village arrived in the fortified village of Yele after a gruesome experience just before they were shipped
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AP English 7 September 18‚ 2014 a long way gone Informative Essay The novel‚ 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
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