Themes List (Quotations‚ Mottos‚ Proverbs and Old Sayings) Prejudice • Things are not always as they appear. • Things are usually not as bad as you think they will be. • Look for the golden lining. • Beauty is only skin deep. • Prejudice leads to: wrong conclusions‚ violence‚ false perceptions‚ a vicious cycle‚ oppression. o Don’t judge a book by its cover. o Mercy triumphs over judgment. • Beware of strangers. • People from other cultures are really very much like us. • Look before you
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related to war; but‚ war is much more than a number. War is and emotional event. Rarely‚ individuals see accurate representations of the emotional brutality of war. However‚ Ismael Beah`s experiences‚ explained in chapters 1-7 of his book‚ “A Long Way Gone”‚ display the emotional hardships that caused Ishmael to grow up quickly. Due to the war‚ 12 year-old Ishmael is forced to grow up rapidly. Unaffected by war‚ Ishmael`s young mind was unable to grasp the horrid reality of warfare; thus‚ explaining
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Journal 1 A topic that is shown throughout A Long Way Gone is the desire to escape the war. Ishmael Beah had the want‚ the need‚ and the desire to escape the war that was happening in Sierra Leone. He had to escape those who turned on the country and became rebels. Running away became part of his life for many years until he join the soldiers. There he would fight for his country to escape from the cruelty the rebels were bringing to Sierra Leone. Ishmael was a very brave child to be constantly
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A Long Way Gone Violence has a major impact on teenagers and children in today’s society. In the novel A Long Way Gone; memoir by a boy soldier Ishmael Beah‚ displays how teenagers are exposed… Through the medias they are showed that the movie Rambo‚ which influences them to be violent and fight. Another way to seek violence is in real life when the boy soldiers are sent to fight the rebels. The violence that the young boys are exposed to caused them to think and act violently towards others‚
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A Long Way Gone 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. She befriends him and helps him to find himself again. Alhaji He is a young man whom Ishmael befriends when they are both part of the soldiers fighting the rebels. He is as strong and
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LONG WAY GONE is a prodigal son story about a terminally ill man‚ who once had a promising music career. Upon returning home‚ he reconnects with his old flame‚ a mature country star whose fallen on hard times. They relive their romance through a series of flashbacks which also ignites memories of his childhood traveling around with his father‚ an itinerate preacher/musician. While this story is certainly catnip for the faith-based market‚ the overarching appeal of this film for a larger market
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1) How did Ishmael Beah’s grandmother explain the local adage that “we must strive to be like the moon” (p16)? Why has Ishmael remembered this saying since childhood? What does it mean to him ? The grandmother’s explanation to the adage was that it served to remind people to always be on their best behavior and to be good to others. He has remembered this saying since childhood because he believed that plenty of happy things happened when the moon shines and when he was a child he would
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A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah was an innocent boy who enjoyed playing football‚ swimming in the streams‚ and even started a rap and dance group with his friends and older brother. The group discovered their love for rap music from old cassette tapes of O.P.P‚ Run D.M.C‚ and the Sugarhill Gang. Ishmael and Junior‚ along with their other friends cherished these few hip hop and rap cassette tapes. Ishmael constantly carried these couple tapes on him at all times. They choreographed dance routines
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World Literature 03 December 2013 A long Way Gone 75% check‚ 100-151 1. Nauseated (verb) - to feel disgust. “Something inside his brain was still pulsating and he was breathing. I felt nauseated” (Beah 100). 2. Garrison (noun) - a body of troops stationed in a fortified place. “The soldiers set up their garrison in another unfinished brick house‚ and there they‚ socialized separate from the civilians” (Beah 101). 3. Jubilation (noun) - a feeling of or the expression of joy. “Their jubilation
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Final: A Long Way Gone Literature Analysis 3. What kind of music does Ishmael like‚ and why? What is it about music that matters to Ishmael‚ or that moves him so? Why is it important to him‚ especially during his rehabilitation at Benin Home? Ishmael likes rap. When he was little he used to rap with his brother and friends. They created a band and rap became very close to him. Even though he didn’t quite understand it‚ he could mash a whole bunch of words and make it sound good. Rapping made
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