Long Way Gone Study Guide / Discussion Questions / Writing Assignment Suggestions Please respond to these questions in RED font and put into your ALWG folder. Chapter Questions: Chapter One: ● What did the old man in Kabati mean when he said‚ “We must strive to be like the moon”? Is this advice that could apply to you? Why or why not? It means you must always be good to others. Yes‚ it can apply to me because I wouldn’t want to be treated bad‚ Chapter Two: ● Beah moves around in time as he tells his story
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faced as a victim of war‚ A Long Way Gone. To me‚ the song is a reminder of how difficulties can build someone into a stronger person. Throughout the song‚ all the lyrics hint that without suffer and perseverance‚ success cannot be achieved. Similarly‚ in Beah’s story‚ he becomes a teenager with more fortitude only after breaking down and experiencing immense grief and pain both physically and mentally. From listening to and analyzing “Superheroes” and reading A Long Way Gone‚ I learn that only after
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Rachel Emerson Sept. 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
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Ishmael grew up in Mogbwemo with his younger brother‚ and mother. In 1993‚ when Ishmael is twelve he travels to Mattru Jong with some of his friends for a talent school‚ and discovers that while he was gone‚ Mogbwemo was attacked by rebels. He evades the rebel and government armies for a long time‚ but is eventually captured by government soldiers. In 1996 Ishmael is taken to the UNICEF‚ (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund)‚ where he is rehabilitated and placed with his Uncle
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In the story “ A Long Way Gone” the main character Ishmael Beah demonstrates a lot of violent actions. His actions begin to change throughout the entire book. One of Ishmael’s violent changes that really taught and helped me understand the many consequences that will happen when you choose to act in a violent manner is when he was going back to his village and noticed that they were being invaded‚ and they were getting low on food he sacrifices his life to make sure his village is ok. It teaches
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The author of this text wants the reader to see how the family felt after being robbed. They were in complete shock. The family’s house got robbed of all of their valuables. Now their trying to find a new place to live. The writing strategy I used was tone. The author uses tone to show how she felt towards the family when they got home and realized they were robbed. The author of this book used tone in this text to emphasize how the family was in complete shock when they came home and saw that
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Chapter 1: January of 1993‚ the war hits home for him when he and his friends visit the village of Mattru Jong to see some old friends and practice their rap group performance for an upcoming talent show. Beah’s home has been attacked by rebels. Beah and his friends go to the nearby wharf to await the incoming people and look for their families among the refugees. When no one they know arrives after several hours‚ the boys decide to head back to Mogbwemo to find their families. The boys stop at
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A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier Ishmael Beah tells of a county‚ Serra Leone‚ torn apart by a civil war. He describes the injustices done upon his people that has been ignored for too long. In his book a long way gone‚ Ishmael describes the innocence of his youth‚ the slaughtering of the innocent and his simple will to survive and come back for the atrocities committed to him and by him. In the beginning of the book you read that Ishmael and his friends taught themselves to rap and dance
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The story told by Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is an amazing recollection of the effects that the extreme violence of war can have on a person‚ including physical‚ psychological‚ and social trauma‚ in which a boy tries to survive 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
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memoir A Long Way Gone‚ the author‚ Ishmael Beah‚ relates his story to the title. On page 65‚ the author says: “We were a long way from Mattru Jong. A long way gone.” The title‚ A Long Way Gone‚ gives the reader a glimpse of how far Ishmael is away from Mattru Jong‚ his life before being a soldier‚ and how distant he is with himself. Mattru Jong is a city in Sierra Leone‚ which Ishmael‚ his brother‚ Junior‚ and a few friends travel to in chapter 1 to attend a talent show. While on the way to Mattru
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