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Ishmael is living with haunted memories of his past. His new life without any war zone or hostility, is unfamiliar with him as was always looking over his shoulder during his time in Sierra Leone. This is causing disruption to his life and his identity due to vivid dreams constantly returning to him. “One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

When Ishmael had to run away to find safety, he stated, “I walked for two days straight without sleeping. I stopped only at streams to drink water. I felt as if somebody was after me” (Beah 47). Ishmael had to find a way to survive that he is not normally used to. He has to drink any water he can find, and he can never rest because he feels as if somebody will find him and hurt him. He feels this way because the rebels from the war have killed many people just like him all over the continent and right in front of his eyes. Also, Ishmael began to feel alone when he stated, “It was during the attack in the village of Kamator that my friends and I separated. It was the last time I saw Junior, my older brother” (Beah 43). The war has not only made him have a new lifestyle, but it also took away many people that he loved away from him. During the first attack on his own village he lost his family because they all ran in different directions and never found each other again. Ishmael and his older brother, Junior, were able to stick together, but another village was attacked and they lost each other. Now Ishmael was alone and had to fight for himself with no one to guide him. Ishmael was a victim because the war caused many events to occur that affected Ishmael’s

Ishmael's life is turned upside down when he and his friends lose their families in the attack and are forced to wander from village to village looking for food, shelter, and kindness

Beah and his friends are forcibly pulled apart from the comfort and security of their homes and families when rebel forces attack their village. This separation marks the beginning of their difficult journey as refugees and eventually as child soldiers, highlighting the stark departure from their peaceful childhoods. On page “9” Ishmael and his friends are forced to become child soldiers, fighting in a war they don't understand. This experience replaces the love and support of their families with the harsh realities of combat, making them "a long way gone" from the nurturing environment of their homes. On page 45 of the book.

The nightmares show Ishmael having Post tramadic stress disorder. The nightmares are flash back of images he has seen, or tramadic event he has witnessed. The nightmares followed him every were he went, recreating the war he had been in.

Thefollowing statement from an article tells about 2 boys who were going to join a war. “Twoteenage boys from south-west Sydney travelled to the Middle East without their parents'knowledge and are believed to be heading to join the fighting in Iraq” (Herald). “One of theboys, Abdullah Elmir, who turned 17 this month, told his mother he was ''going fishing'' beforedisappearing from his Bankstown home” (Herald). The children are going to a war to fight fortheir families because their families can’t. Elie is giving up his food and drink to be near and carefor his father.

During the war, a significant amount of things happen to different groups of families in their homeland. There are soldiers that are fighting for the protection of their families and there are many families that are doing anything in their power to stay safe through the chaos. Yet a number of the individuals involved in the conflict have a tendency to try and escape the madness. In spite of the madness, some children have the advantage to escape yet they are equally impacted with long term trauma by the war as those who did not have the opportunity to depart.

Throughout the story, Ishmael and his friends go through tough times of needing psychological, safety, and

Throughout the history of wars, mankind has used a variety of different techniques to gain the upper hand in battle. But sadly, some countries have become so desperate that they would even use children as soldiers. Even today, children are being used as soldiers so that countries can gain the upper hand in wars. As a result of the children experiencing this, some of them have started to write books about their experience. In the book A Long Way Gone written by Ishmeal Beah.

Ishmael talks of the violent events that have not only affected him, but also something he helped create throughout A Long Way Gone. Ishmael's new American life is haunted by his

As many Americans know, the status of non-white Americans can be a gray area. Police brutality puts a spotlight on this gray area, with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the use of media to promote differing perspectives. “Negrotown” takes the perspective against police brutality to another level by introducing a utopian-like community with only Black people. The viewer follows the main character around a fantasy environment before he realizes he’s still arrested in the real world. The comedic short film “Negrotown” by Key & Peele uses satire, specifically situational irony to highlight the discriminatory treatment of African-Americans in the criminal justice system.

A war breaks out and Ishmael loses his family, but he makes and loses new friends on his way to find them. He ends up joining the war, killing hundreds of innocent people without a thought. He is then saved and tries to be cured of his PTSD and finally vents to the nurse he “crushes” on. He then travels to the United States to be a

In today’s society the majority of the crimes are still being committed by people who have possessed a firearm that has been obtained illegally or without proper permits. That being said there has been a strong push for gun control because of the rise of shootings involving a large group of people such as the Columbine massacre, Virginia Tech shooting and latest Aurora movie theater shooting involving people who have purchased firearms legally. Gun control laws in the United States have been established for many years but to maintain a civilized society with limited crime stronger control laws need to be enforced in which will help reduce crime in our country. Establishing stronger gun control laws will educate

There are often times in your life where you look up to some certain people. Normally these people are called your role models. Kids growing up have all different sorts of role models, it can range from athletes, to singers, to just everyday people in their life. Always looking up to these people, you begin to adapt to their ways and aspire to be like them. There are a ton of characters in Chaucer’s story of Canterbury Tales, many of these people which could easily be looked up to, or easily looked down upon as well. Geoffery Chaucer is an extremely important author in English history. He is known as the father of the English language, because he was one that began to actually write in down in ways that we talked. Canterbury Tales is one of his most known and important writings of his time, because of the message and ways he was trying to get his message across. Satire was one of his favorite ways of writing poetry, hints the reason his best work is a classic satire by Chaucer. One way or another, I have three favorite characters from the story: the Knight, Parson, and Oxford Cleric.

In his Preface to the play, Bolt informs the reader his main metaphors are the sea and dry land, to suggest the supernatural order vs. the human order. The sea is formless, vast, and unpredictable. The land is security, home, order, what is known. Thomas More paradoxically clings to the safety of law and land but finds himself swept by his religious faith out to sea. Bolt did not want a purely naturalistic play, he says, and the metaphors are a way to add scope and philosophic depth, as in a poem.