...What would Ishmael’s grandfather give him and his brother? Explain how this impacted him. What if we had this, how would it impact the world? As Ishmael is walking through the forest, he finds a lemon shaped fruit and it reminds him of the time his grandfather would give him and his brother special medicine. This special medicine would be on medicinal leaves where were on trees whose barks had important medicine. With this medicine that their grandfather gave them, it enhanced their brain’s capacity to retain and absorb knowledge. This impacted Ishmael’s school life by becoming one of the top students of his classes. He would be able to remember every note, as if he had a picture of them in his mind, he wrote during quizzes and tests. As...
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...The decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone involved an estimated 10,000 children fighting for both the rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), and for the Sierra Leone government (Jang). Many people know Ishmael Beah’s story about his childhood as a child soldier, but not many know about what he does to help kids who are going through the same thing he went through. Ishmael Beah is a former boy soldier from Sierra Leone who used his awful past as fuel to become a better person and help children who are in the same situation as he was. Ishmael’s childhood was definitely not easy, even before the war. His parents were divorced, and his father went through multiple wives after Ishmael’s mother. Ishmael’s stepmothers, who did not want...
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...with the gunshots. Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives”(p. 23). This quotation shows how horrific the the war was once it reached the different villages. The civilians of these villages were not used to this sort of violence. With only hearing stories and rumors of the war none of the civilians actually knew or experienced what the war was like. Once hearing the gunshots it startled everyone, causing people to scatter in different directions. Running, screaming, pushing, and running over individuals everyone ran for their lives. Only to end up being separated from their families, friends, homes, and belongings. Some would never see eachother again unless however they believed in afterlife, as some of the civilians were shot to death. Chapters 5-8 Quote Selection and Theme Analysis Theme:Survival and Overcoming Obstacles “I was busy trying to survive the everyday obstacles”(p.31) This quotation shows how Ishmael’s life not only now consisted of many obstacles but if he was unable to take on these obstacles he would not survive. Obstacles such as not eating for long periods of time, walking for several days without breaks sleeping in abandoned villages, running and hiding from the rebels, eating plants that could be poisonous, bathing with soap made of grass, being lonesome, running from wild pigs and sleeping next to snakes. He also had to see many dead bodies and the killing of them. Ishmael, his brother...
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...It is often overlooked that a deeper, more symbolic, meaning may have been the driving force behind Moby Dick. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, to Allan and Maria Melville. He was the third of eight children in the Melville family. He was generally described as silent and slow; his mother thought him to be a very dull child. In 1832 Melville suffered tragedy when his father died. Finishing school when he was fifteen, Melville took service as cabin boy aboard the St. Lawrence. After returning to his home in New York for some time after serving as cabin boy, Melville took berth as an ordinary seaman aboard a whaling ship called the Acushnet. After approximately four and a half years as a seaman on various ships, he set down, again in New York, to write of his experiences. Within six years he had published five books. Shortly thereafter Melville was married and moved his family to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was at this location where Moby Dick was written. Moby Dick was first published in 1851. Melville continued to write, both poetry and stories,...
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