The book I have chosen was A Long Way Gone‚ I have read a lot about the war in Sierra Leone in 1991‚ where the book was based around. The war had started when the Special Forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) had interviewed with Sierra Leone to try to take down the government. There was a lot of talk about how the human rights had joined in to help stop this war‚ not doing much to help thought. This war was characterized by “extreme brutality and widespread human
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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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In the book‚”A Long Way Gone‚” nature is the theme and it is personified in it. That is because Ishmael in this story went outside a lot of times because his village is burnt and his family is dead. First‚ the war started which Ishmael and his brother and friends were trying to escape together to avoid getting killed by the rebels. And also he gets food outside like fruits on the trees‚ or other plants that can eat. That represent some nature. Another instance is when his grandmother talks about
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Now I am Become Death‚ The Destroyer of Worlds Violence‚ witnessing‚ experiencing‚ or even causing it‚ can cause a person to become desensitized to it. The more violence a person experiences‚ the easier it becomes to handle. In his memoir A Long Way Gone‚ author Ishmael Beah draws parallels between witnessing violence and becoming desensitized to it. Graphic instances in Ishmael’s life such as witnessing his friends die causes him to become desensitized to violence‚ from just barely being able
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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 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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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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Solitariness is an element that the war has shrouded me with. Furthermore‚ the same comrades the abominable bloodshed bestowed me‚ Chance’s kleptomaniac fingers heisted them away. Yet‚ I cannot bear to brood about them‚ considering that whenever I endeavor‚ an iota of me ruptures. Ultimately‚ the men were my all‚ even beyond my own blood. Of‚ course I treasure my family dearly‚ but it is too faint of a memory. And‚ without them‚ the days transpire inconsequentially. Moreover‚ day by day we are
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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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A Long Way Gone Survival is a skill everyone’s born with but not many have to test it. In the memoir of Ishmael Beah‚ A Long Way Gone‚ he travels across the Sierra Leone bush to get away from the Revolutionary United Front(RUF) that is attacking his home village. Melissa Fay Greene from the Elle Magazine writes‚ “No outsider could have written this book‚ and it’s hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision‚ stark language‚ and tenderness. It is a heartrending achievement
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