In my opinion‚ I believe Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was most relevant to my study of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Coming into the course I had previously learned about the Hierarchy of Needs. In that course we took an in-depth look at Maslow’s Theory‚ and applied it to several real life scenarios. One scenario that caught my eye was when we studied a group of plane crash survivors. I do not remember the exact details of the story‚ but I remember that their hunger drove
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soldiers‚ such as Ishmael Beah. Ishmael had to go through many awful things that he would never imagine going through. For example‚ he “stole people’s food while they slept” because “it was the only way to get through the night” and did other violent things that would not have happened if there was not a civil war (Beah 29). In addition‚ Ishmael lost many of his family and friends and went through many struggles. He felt that he was “starting (his life) over and over again” (Beah 69). Ishmael’s hopes
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Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone is appropriate for the Sterling High School English IV curriculum because of the real life connections to world events and complexity of ideas. Important to realize‚ Beah’s memoir reflects many current world events. He shows us war and killing from a different viewpoint. Beah introduced to us that they were forced and drugged to join the war and had no choice: “ Of course taking more of the white capsules‚ as I became addicted to them”(121). In other words
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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 of youthfulness to the end of Beah’s childhood. When Beah is inducted into the military and endures hardships‚ he truly loses innocence and stops calling flashbacks
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2. Discuss the why American Born Chinese can be considered a coming of age novel. Provide textual support for your answer. You need to discuss at least four traits that are covered in the novel. The first reason this book is a coming of age novel is because the protagonist‚ Jin Wang‚ contently tests his boundaries and limits. He does this when he kisses Suzy and she punches him (Yang 188). This resulted in a loss of friendship with Wei-chen and a change in Jin. This is the point in the story where
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These types of experiences can be from changes to our surroundings‚ lifestyle or other variables that are different to our normal life. This can lead us to lose touch with our own sense of security‚ well being and ultimately our own identities. Ismael Beah in Long Way Gone struggles with significant changes as his identity switches from a normal young boy to a brutal child soldier‚ and he loses touch with the person he once was. Such a story illustrates the fragility of the human spirit to suggest that
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sorry for those affected by the war? 3. How does Beah explain his understanding of war in a way that American readers can understand? a. When was the narrator first touched by war? History of Sierra Leone? 4. With whom does Ishmael leave home? a. Where are they going and why? 5. On the morning the boys left for Mattru Jong‚ with what did they fill their backpacks? a. Characterization of Ishmael and his friends…(ATOAD) 6. On page 10‚ what does Beah recall about his father‚ just three days earlier
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shows how child soldiers are not conscious of the crimes they are committing therefore‚ they shouldn’t be fully to blame. Also‚ “...you go out‚ you shoot people and you do whatever the commanders want you to do if not‚ they will kill you” (Ishmael Beah). Ishmael explains that child soldiers are basically being forced to do whatever the commanders or military leaders want them to do or else their life will be taken away. As you can see‚ child soldiers should be given amnesty because they’re unaware
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inspires us to always go on. Ishmael Beah had to turn into someone he never wanted to be in order to survive the civil war that was terrain his country apart. Aron Ralston had to make the hard decision of amputating his own arm in order to survive. In the book divergent‚ Tris had to choose between her and her friend will in order to survive at gun point. During war‚ it is know that people living in it will do anything to survive. At the age of 13 Ishmael Beah was forced to become a child
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to a rehabilitation center. As “PRI” states‚ once Ishmael Beah was taken out of the a rehabilitation center‚ he went on to graduate college and become a author. This shows that rather than punishing a child to show them what they did wrong‚ you can work with them to help them understand what they did incorrectly. Just punishing someone might still make them not understand what they did wrong‚ but teaching them does. Plus‚ some people like Ishmael don’t grow up so lucky. Unlike me‚ he didn’t grow
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