Assignment # 1: A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah The story of Ishmael Beah‚ a survivor of civil war in Sierra Leone‚ is brutal‚ challenging‚ and educational. Although the book presents mature and realistic details about war‚ the images are by no means gratuitous. Beah wants his readers to understand the atrocities of war so that people might try to stop and prevent the spread of violence in the world. As you read‚ prepare to write this reflective essay‚ due on the first
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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 one of the people he feared most:
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We’re located in Sierra Leone in northwestern Africa. The country is at war between a horrible government and an equally terrible rebel group named RUF. This group attacks a small village‚ here there’s no mercy if you’re not a big working-man. The family father Solomon Vandy is taken and ends up as a slave in one of the country’s diamond mines. The diamonds that are dug up are usually the size of small beads‚ but one day‚ Solomon finds one that is much bigger than the usual diamond. Solomon sneaks
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Ryan A. Barker Civic & Cultural Literacy I Mr. Rand 12-14-12 Blood Diamond is a movie about the illegal diamond trade in West Africa‚ the Sierra Leone Civil War‚ and the personal story of a man named Solomon trying to find his son. Ty Burr wrote a review on this film and claims that he enjoyed it but there were some parts in which he said that it was just like any other movie. I agree with Burr on many of his points about the film‚ that it was a very entertaining movie but it did not stand
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I’m not the kind to read sad stories about someones life. I praise Ishmael Beah‚ the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy solider. He put the unthinkable into words that were carefully crafted in order to make them perfectly flow from the text‚ to my head. The boy who was between the ages of 12 & 16 at the time‚ lost everything he thought would be his forever. His village was attacked by a notorious group‚ his parents were killed and his childhood was stolen from him. At his age‚ he never
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changed when several The Australian’s reporters claimed that Beah’s story was folly and said there were multiple things wrong with his account on things - namely the timeline. In one instance‚ the reporters visited the school in Beah’s home in Sierra Leone in the article Beah’s credibility a long way gone. There‚ they interviewed several of his teachers and former pupils who insisted that Beah was present at the school throughout the years 1993 and 1994 which contradicts Beah’s
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activities. The Blood Diamond conflict has had serious impacts on the political‚ economic and ethical areas. In the political area‚ the mining and trade of diamonds fuels deadly conflicts. For more than a decade‚ the ongoing civil war between the Sierra Leone government and the Liberia- backed rebel
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Beaven AP English 12 13 October 2012 A Memoir of a Boy Solider A Long Way gone is a great novel that tugs at the heartstrings. A long way gone is the story of a boy named Ishmael Beah who is a normal kid with a loving family growing up in Sierra Leone. However‚ one day while Beah is off with his brother and friends visiting the village of Mattru Jong to perform in a talent show‚ his home village‚ Mogbewmo‚ is attacked and destroyed by rebel soldiers. Because of the attack Beah’s family fled
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When Everything Else is Gone‚ There is Always Love In Ishmael Bach’s autobiography‚ a long Way Gone‚ he portrays himself as a young witness of the civil war in his home country Sierra Leone. Beach starts his personal journey at age twelve in his small village where he grew up and ends four years later when he escapes to Guinea. At the beginning of the story Beah is a bright‚ cheerful‚ and untroubled‚ but as the book continues Young Beah takes much pleasure in learning the lyrics to American rap
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and escape his past as a child soldier. Civil war brings along not only violence‚ sadness‚ poverty‚ death etc. but also horrible conditions in which the victims that suffer the consequences are the children. Kids in third world countries‚ like in Sierra Leone‚ that are going through civil wars are forced to join the fight in order to survive; it’s the only option they have. War impacts their lives long-term in unimaginable ways that leaves them bruised for life. Ishmael had to endure seeing people
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