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A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah's novel A Long Way Gone opens when the protagonist is ten years old and completely innocent about the destructive nature of the civil war moving inexorably towards his village,...
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A Long Way Gone
In Chapter Eight, Ishmael is on the run after a rebel attack destroys the village of Kamator and scatters the remaining villagers who manage to escape execution. As Ishmael makes his way west, he...
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A Long Way Gone
The formidable amount of stress caused in war makes it difficult to remember details from wartime experiences correctly. In no way would the inability to fully recall all wartime experiences...
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A Long Way Gone
It is in chapter 8 of Ishmael Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone that we find the fable about the wild pig hunter. Prior to this chapter, Beah and his friends had escaped their village of Mogbwemo that...
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A Long Way Gone
I would say that one way in which Beah is contributing to the community is through his efforts to make the world aware of the plight of child soldiers. Beah has not retreated into a sanctuary of...
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A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier traces the activities of Ishmael Beah, the author, as he tries to survice war-torn Sierra Leone before escaping and making his way to America at only 18...
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A Long Way Gone
Perhaps the writer of the introduction for an essay on A Long Way Gone may wish to capitalize upon the significance of the book's title and irony of its author's name. For Ishmael Beah, like...
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A Long Way Gone
A detailed description of each of 21 chapters is not possible within the confines of this format. What follows is an attempt at providing some details. Chapter 1: Ishmael’s childhood, beginning...
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A Long Way Gone
In A Long Way Gone, Beah's main focus is the struggle to survive as a child soldier. Beah, about to be reunited with his family, witnesses the burning of a village and there is no trace of his...
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A Long Way Gone
The original question had to be edited. I think that Beah's life in the exposition of the memoir is steeped in this idea of innocence. The fact that he seems to be a "regular" adolescent helps to...
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A Long Way Gone
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah devotes significant attention to nature. He has been taught to pay attention to nature and to learn from it. He has grown up hearing his elders tell him that...
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A Long Way Gone
Ibrahim is his little brother who lives with their mother. Junior is Ishmael's older brother. Hope this helps!
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A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone is actually autobiographical non-fiction rather than a work of fiction, and thus critics will usually not use the term plot in discussing the main events of the work. Instead,...
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A Long Way Gone
The squad family is a new family for Ishmael, Lieutenant Jabati is a father figure and the soldiers are his brothers. They are who he lives with and emotionally, he needs a family (remember that he...
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A Long Way Gone
In Ishmael Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone, family plays an important role. Ishmael recounts his experiences amid violence in his homeland of Sierra Leone. Ishmael, just twelve years old, travels to...
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A Long Way Gone
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah describes several friendships that he had as a young boy before he became a child soldier. He had friends in his home village before it was raided, and he ran with...
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A Long Way Gone
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah is finally put into rehabilitation, but he and the other boys do not take to it easily. The boys have been exposed to harsh drugs for so long that it is not easy...
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A Long Way Gone
An overwhelming irony surrounds the death of Ishmael Beah's family in A Long Way Gone. All the while that Beah spends on the run, he desperately wants to find his family. In every village that he...
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A Long Way Gone
Love is actually a difficult emotion for Beah to display within the confines of A Long Way Gone. I say this to emphasize the fact that Beah himself certainly appears to be a loving person, but...
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A Long Way Gone
Throughout his memoir A Long Way Gone, Beah demonstrates courage, determination, and strength through his responses to the hardships which befall him. For example, at the beginning of the book,...
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A Long Way Gone
In my mind, I think that the plight of child soldiers in Sierra Leone, or anywhere, is probably some of the most convincing evidence that globalization is uneven. The information superhighway as...
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A Long Way Gone
Many people are ignorant to the fact that children are still used in gruesome manners that have been long outlawed in other countries. Children who are forced in labor, used as slaves, and driven...
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A Long Way Gone
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah uses recurring symbols to represent oppression and freedom. For example, fire and smoke are often literally and figuratively associated with the oppression that...
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A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah's memoir is a chilling account of his days as a child soldier and his struggle to return from a personal hell. His story is presented through the description of his three worlds: his...
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A Long Way Gone
In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah and the friends with whom he has been traveling are taken in from the forest by a group of government soldiers. They are led to a village...
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A Long Way Gone
The title of Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone refers to the rocky journey that Beah has taken as a former child soldier. He is forced into the army so that he can survive, and the lessons that he...
