"Junior‚ Talloi‚ and I listened to rap music‚ trying to memorize the lyrics so that we could avoid thinking about the situation at hand. Naughty by Nature‚ LL Cool J‚ Run-D.M.C.‚ and Heavy D & The Boyz; we had left home with only these cassettes and the clothes that we wore. I remember sitting on the verandah listening to "Now That We Found Love" by Heavy D & The Boyz and watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind." (15). "I took off my old pants‚ which contained
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In the book‚ A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier written by Ishmael Beah. This autobiographical story tells a story about him and how he grew up in Sierra Leone during the country’s civil war. Sierra Leone descended into a brutal and chaotic civil war between Foday Sankoh’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and corrupt Action Peoples Congress (APC). The conflict lasted most of the 1990s and‚ in common with the civil war in Liberia‚ became intimately linked with the use of child soldiers. Sierra
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Gone is a fantasy horror novel written by Michael Grant. Published in 2008‚ the novel’s plot echoes that of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ in the sense of it revolving around isolated children‚ the will to power and the corruption it causes. When everyone over the age of fourteen vanishes‚ Sam Temple is unwillingly made responsible of forming a surviving society and protecting it from the supernatural mysteries that surround the town of Perdido Beach. Additionally‚ he has to worry about the
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"A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah In Ishmael Beah’s autobiographical narrative "A Long Way Gone"‚ the theme of the story is to never give up‚ because throughout the book the main character faces numerous difficult situations‚ and manages to overcome them. First‚ Beah’s responses towards certain problems show the reader his will to survive. For instance‚ when Ishmael and his friends are all alone after escaping from rebels‚ he states‚ "we had no idea where we would go or even
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known all over the theatrical world. The theatre is the home of Hull Truck and the playwright that made this 300 capacity venue world famous goes by the name of John Godber. Godber is the son of a miner who was brought up in West Yorkshire. He started his working life as a teacher of drama at a secondary school. In 1984 he became the artistic director for the Hull Truck Theatre based in Spring Street near the centre of Hull. The play that put John Godber and Hull Truck onto the theatrical map was Bouncers
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relevant‚ survival. This idea is present in the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. In this memoir‚ Beah recalls his story as a young kid thrown into chaos‚ as he is separated from his family‚ his friends‚ and is eventually forced to join the army as a boy soldier . Eventually‚ he is taken out of the war and becomes a functioning member of society but his innocence is shattered into pieces. It is evident throughout A Long Way Gone‚ mainly through Beah’s use of
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Anti Racism- MUST BE STOPPED What is anti-racism? It means treating everyone fairly‚ not making racist jokes‚ respecting people and being friendly to each other‚ regardless of where they come from or what they look like. We were born to trust and accept each other. We were not born with particular attitudes or prejudice. Today we often read and hear people criticise one particular race‚ their religion and their behaviour. Sometimes we are encouraged to take on the mistaken belief that there
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Charles Bailey “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay‚ we must fight!! The poem “If We Must Die‚ by Claude McKay” is about a certain group of people who are hated and hunted by another group of others. I believe that the poet has made this poem to speak to his fellow African-Americans‚ who are being mistreated by the white slave owners. The speaker tells his people not to go easily‚ but rather fight as long as possible and don’t ever give up before they are killed. The poet believes that the worst things
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“I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter‚ I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.” (Ishmael Beah 218). This quote can be seen as a message about the novel‚ as Beah is trying to spread awareness with this book‚ and not let anyone suffer the way he did. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a true story about the author and his first hand experiences of the civil war in Sierra Leone. Theme is defined as the underlying idea
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The World Has Gone Quiet My lungs fill with cool autumn air. Breathe in‚ breathe out. In‚ out. In‚ out. As I breathe‚ I begin to walk. My head doesn’t know what my destination is‚ but my legs carry me. Down the road‚ turn right onto Meridian Street. The only sound is the wind in the trees‚ my feet on the ground. My shoe scraping softly against the pavement. It’s quiet. Too quiet. Somewhere‚ I can hear a bird’s hushed call. It seems like that’s the only living thing out here. The town
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