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    A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah - Notes Chapter 2 notes The imagery in this chapter is a jarring contrast to chapter one when Ishmael played music and went to school and had a loving family. It is filled with memories and dream imagery that are horrifying to both Ishmael and the reader.  Chapter 3 notes This chapter is filled with contrasts‚ especially the days of peace versus the days of war. There is also the contrast of Ishmael cooking dinner as gunshots ring out throughout the town. There

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    A Long Way Gone The virtue of storytelling is an instrumental‚ necessary and valuable skill that ensures the comprehension of content. Storytelling‚ therefore‚ ensures that the intended message lingers in people’s minds hence ensuring that integration takes place. A good and educative story ensures that the content is consumed in an easier and efficient manner. The art of storytelling is highly demonstrated in A Long Way Gone‚ and this can be highly illustrated by the various myths and stories incorporated

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    A Long Way Gone Analytical Paragraphs   Paragraph #1: Thesis: Through the symbol of rap cassettes‚ the author shows that the child soldiers were what the name suggests‚ innocent children‚ despite the horrors of the war that they had to experience. During the rehabilitation process‚ the rap cassettes helped Ishmael integrate into society‚ while also allowing the reader to see the child soldiers weren’t the monsters they were portrayed as previously. After Esther brought Ismael the Bob Marley songs

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    Smith 1  Haley Smith  Mrs. Brown  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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    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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    A Long Way Gone – Short Essay During the Sierra Leone Civil War that started on March 23‚ 1991‚ the eleven-year armed conflict caused the displacement of many citizens and the conscription of child soldiers. The novel A Long Way Gone‚ shows the memoir of Ishmael Beah’s childhood during the violent years of the war. Throughout the story the author Beah embodies the loss of innocence in many parts of his early life. Using the different events that Beah experiences‚ the author displays the transition

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    faced as a victim of war‚ A Long Way Gone. To me‚ the song is a reminder of how difficulties can build someone into a stronger person. Throughout the song‚ all the lyrics hint that without suffer and perseverance‚ success cannot be achieved. Similarly‚ in Beah’s story‚ he becomes a teenager with more fortitude only after breaking down and experiencing immense grief and pain both physically and mentally. From listening to and analyzing “Superheroes” and reading A Long Way Gone‚ I learn that only after

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    Rachel Emerson Sept. 4th; 1st hour Ishmael Beah. A Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Copyright 2007. This memoir provides a first hand view on how modern day wars are now fought. At the age of 12 -the author- Ishmael Beah’s village in the country of Sierra Leone in north-western Africa was attacked by the rebels. Ripped away from his family; he spends two years fleeing from the war in a group of seven young boys. Each day they struggle to survive. In time Ishmael becomes

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    Ishmael grew up in Mogbwemo with his younger brother‚ and mother. In 1993‚ when Ishmael is twelve he travels to Mattru Jong with some of his friends for a talent school‚ and discovers that while he was gone‚ Mogbwemo was attacked by rebels. He evades the rebel and government armies for a long time‚ but is eventually captured by government soldiers. In 1996 Ishmael is taken to the UNICEF‚ (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund)‚ where he is rehabilitated and placed with his Uncle

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    story he changes as a character because of his experiences. Ishmael gains wisdom through his experience at the UNICEF rehabilitation camp for boy soldiers after being a part of the Sierra Leone civil war. He shares his journey in his memoir A Long Way Gone. First‚ Ishmael changed a lot as a person throughout his journey. Before the civil war‚ Ishmael was a troublesome boy who enjoyed rapping and dancing with his brother and his friends. He was touched by the war at the age of twelve. After witnessing

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