The book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah is a book that has many themes and lessons. It is a true story about a boy soldier. One of the themes in this book is survival. When war hit Ishmael Beah, it was all about survival until the end. From the moment Ishmael fled the violence at Mattru Jong, the focus of his life became surviving. For months, Beah had to survive by overcoming hunger and violence. Survival was the most important theme in the book. Ishmael had to survive the war and in the forest
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Kristine Chin Ms. Williams English 10 September 19, 2015 A Long Way Gone: Socratic Seminar Topic 4 Notes What does the destruction of Ishmael’s cassette when he joins the army symbolize? • Cassette symbolizes innocence/ his childhood o “The four of us had started a rap and dance group when I was eight” (Beah 6) Raps during childhood o Reminder of his childhood “We loaded out backpacks with notebooks of lyrics we were working on and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums” (7) • Carries
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cannot progress to each level unless they have successfully met the one before. In the book “A Long Way Gone” the main character Ishmael Beah experiences all five levels of the hierarchy of needs. Before the war, Ishmael is at the fourth level of needs, needs for esteem. However once the war reaches him he was brought down to the first level of physiological needs. Throughout the book Ishmael slowly works his way back up the hierarchy. The first level of Maslow’s hierarchy is physiological
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family and friends, to someone who would put someone through a lot of pain before he killed them. Ishmael was cruel and brutal because he shot the rebels in the foot, and let them sit and cry in pain and agony for an entire day. These actions would have gone against the morals he had as a child before the war, but as you can see his morals during the war have changed and he has become someone else. In addition, he became unremorseful, he would look into their eyes before he killed them and see them give
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violent Rambo movies. When the soldiers run out of drugs, food, ammunition, and gasoline, they raid rebel camps. They also attack civilian villages to force more young boys and men to join their army. In chapter 14 Ishmael’s innocence is completely gone. His attitude toward violence now is one of numb acceptance and doesn’t fear him anymore. He has become a completely different person than the boy who loved dancing and rap music before. Violence acts as entertainment as the theme in this chapter
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Guns give people immense power, the sort of power you wouldn’t want anyone to be able to possess; the power to hurt, destroy, and manipulate those around them. The book A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, follows the story of young Ishmael Beah during the war in Sierra Leone. It tells step by step the events that led up to Beah being captured and forced to fight in a war at the mere age of thirteen. Those with the most power in this war were the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), they attack villages
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This book, A Long Way Gone, tells a biography of Ishmael Beah. Ishmael Beah starts out as an innocent boy who is fascinated with rapping with his friends. When he is 12 years old, his village is attacked by rebels while he is performing in a rap group at school. Among the confusion, violence and the air of uncertainty of the war, Ishmael and his brother, Junior, and his friends wander from villages to villages in a desperate search of food and sanctuary. Their daily struggle for survival causes them
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A Long Way Gone is a story about persevere descriptive imagery that made it easier for me comprehend and seen clear image. A Long Way Gone is story about a boy name Ishmael Beah. Ishmael Beah is just a young boy who had to go through many difficult things in his life. Ishmael Beah had to run away from his home because of the civil war he ran away for survival .The army captured him and forced him into army. He mentally changed when he got a life changing opportunity. The first reason I like
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From the child on the television in their living room whose ribs protrude from her skin and whose lips are cracked from lack of water, they turn away. From the frail, homeless veteran less than a mile from their front door, holding out his trembling hands and pleading with eyes full of pain, they turn away. People turn away and ignore the most excruciating truths of the world to avoid the discomfort and responsibility that comes with acknowledging reality. Whether it is used by individuals and villages
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Hundreds of thousand of children have been forced to become child soldiers. A Long Way Gone and Lord of the Flies both share an essence of innocence that they are forced to let go of. A Long Way Gone portrait Ishmael Beah’s young life in Africa as a child soldier. Ishmael, while away from his village he learns it had been attacked by rebels and cannot return home. When the rebels arrive at the village Ismael has been staying in, he and manages to evade the rebels but must be nomadic. However, when
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