A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was one of the most shocking books I have ever read. I knew that there were many problems and civil wars occurring within Africa‚ but I never realized how much war truly affected the country and its culture. This is not a typical war that we envision here in the United States‚ this is a dismantling of a country’s way of life. Beah’s story gives detailed accounts of things that seem unimaginable in today’s world. The fact that governments around the world had an
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Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (2007) has done just that. In his novel‚ Beah chronicles his journeys in Sierra
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developed nation‚ he had the dreams and thoughts of any normal teenager from the west. It is heartbreaking to learn that such dreams of millions of children like Beah are crushed down and ripped apart by the institution of War. Ishmael Beah was 12 years old when the civil war in Sierra Leone entered his life‚ in 1993. When the rebels attacked
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MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com For the complete study guide: http://monkeynote.stores.yahoo.net/ A LONG WAY GONE KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING Sierra Leone‚ 1993-1997 New York City‚ 1998 LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Ishmael Beah - The narrator of this true story‚ Ishmael‚ is a boy soldier who finds a way to escape the horrors of war and go on to counsel others who are only looking for a way to live in peace. Esther - She is a nurse at Benin House where Ishmael is taken for rehabilitation
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Home” by Ismael Beah‚ is a true memoir about a boy named Ismael Beah who grows up with many struggles and no family. He was only about twelve years old when he was performing at a rap group and his village was attacked by the Civil War in Sierra Leone leaving him and his group of friends homeless without their families. While they are alone they struggle finding food and a shelter in different villages. While Ishmael is looking for his family in different villages‚ he is captured
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Neuman Tillman Pre-Ap English 17 October 2012 1.What does Ishmael say the war is about? Ishmael says nothing about the causes of the war‚ or what each side was fighting for‚ or of the overall political and social conditions in Sierra Leone that caused the war. This was a deliberate strategy on the part of Beah‚ the author. He wanted to present the war through the eyes of a child. As a boy of twelve‚ when the war first affected him‚ he had no interest in politics. He had no reason to be interested—his
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Sierra Leone‚ located in the west side of Africa‚ between Guinea and Liberia. It had gained its Independence in 1961‚ now with the population of 6.2 million. Almost have of the population lives off of subsistence agriculture‚ however‚ Diamond mining is considered for half of Sierra Leone’s exports. Diamonds were first discovered in Sierra Leone in 1930‚ and a war broke out between 1991 and 2002 over diamonds that led to the name blood diamonds. Blood diamonds are defined by diamond mining in a war
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Soldier and the recent 2006 film Blood Diamond both depict how it was living in Sierra Leone‚ Africa during the Civil War in the ‘90’s. While A Long Way Gone focuses on child soldiers and what they had to live and go through for many years‚ Blood Diamond focuses mainly on how the country is torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. The film portrays many of the atrocities of that war‚ including the rebels’ amputation of people’s hands to stop them from voting in
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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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connected to the issue of child soldiers. Task B will include information about an ex-soldier who were in war-ravaged Sierra Leone‚ what he experienced and what he saw. After this task I will be focusing about the media‚ why the film has a critical view on media. Then I’ll talk about what I personally think about the movie. The story begins in Sierra Leone in North-western Africa. The country is in a war between a corrupt government led by President Joseph Saidu Momoh and a so-called rebel group named
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