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    The True Heartbreaking Story of a Boy Soldier To be quite honest, there are no stories more heart-breaking than the stories about African war and child soldiers. “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah is about his own personal experiences through man's most cruel act, war. The story starts out sad but it has a happy ending thankfully. Ishmael Beah’s purpose of the book is to tell readers the sad truth about what has and what is happening in parts of Africa. The author shares the details of growing up

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    rebel soldiers? A far too young boy has seen the world at its worst in Ishmael Beah’s autobiography, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael tells his tale when war hits Sierra Leone, and he becomes a killing machine, overcomes his mournful past, and rediscovers who he is. Literary themes used to show the violence include, the theme of hope, irony, and imagery. To begin with, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah portrays many themes throughout the book. Hope for survival

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    In A Long Way Gone, the author applies the device of polysyndeton to list out the movies that the boys watched in order to fuel their rage and violence. It’s obvious that the films influence the boys due to the fact that the soldiers are willing to do anything to watch them. The polysyndeton is shown in the novel when Ishmael lists out the films he and the other soldiers watch: “War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on, with the aid of the generator or sometimes a car battery

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    A Long Way Gone By Beah

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    A Long Way Gone tells the story of a boy residing in Sierra Leone who loses his innocence at a young age and manages to overcome his traumatizing events through story telling. In Ishmael Beah’s riveting memoir, A Long Way Gone, Beah explores the idea that reminiscing upon joyful memories and loved ones when undergoing distress, allows children to be able to recover from their loss of innocence through the use of imagery, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. Evidently, Beah is seen throughout the story

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    surprising that Beah spends a relatively small portion of the book describing his time as a soldier in the war? Why might he have decided to devote much more time to his life before and after his time in the army? A: Thought the book is labeled A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah mostly talks about how his life is now rather than talking about the time he spent as a boy soldier, and that was most likely because he didn’t want to burden others with all of the traumatic experiences, and he

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    Long Way Gone Conflicts

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    Throughout the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael faces a plentiful amount of challenges and conflicts. In the book there are four main conflicts that Ishmael faces and overcomes. These conflicts include Ishmael running away from the war, his family, and his friends, Ishmael's entire family dying and him becoming a soldier at the age of 13, Ishmael going through rehabilitation, and Ishmael trying to move to a safer area when war meets Freetown. To start off, all of Ishmael’s problems

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    child soldier. The description Beah uses makes the reader ultimately feel like they are there with him. The imagery shown also describes in great detail how Ishmael’s life went from innocent to an unimaginable life. Ishmael Beah writes a novel, A Long Way Gone, to show the violent images in his journey through Sierra Leone. The author uses imagery to show his innocence and pureness of being a child before his world changed entirely. As a young child, Ishmael never first handedly experienced war, but

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    In “A Long Way Gone” Ishmael and others have become a product of their environment and are very stuck in their ways. Ishmael and friends are put into the Benin Home, a rehabilitation center, and cannot stop their bad habits: In the morning, we beat up people from the neighborhood who were on their way to fetch water at a nearby pump. If we couldn’t catch them, we threw stones at them. Sometimes they dropped their buckets as they ran away from us. We would laugh as we destroyed their buckets. The

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    After escaping, the wars in their minds were neverending. The effects of being child soldiers had taken a toll on their minds leaving them with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). How would this impact you if it occurred in your life? In “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah, Beah displays his experience of this harsh reality of PTSD in child soldiers through his personal experiences in the 1980’s-1990’s in Sierra Leone. The lasting trauma of being child soldiers creates atrocious PTSD. Child PTSD

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    A Long Way Gone Summary

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    1.) During this past year, I have read four books. 2.) During the summer months, I maintain reading weekly. 3.) I read the novel A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Based on the title, I expected an autobiography of a child who has seen and experienced war and struggles to reverse the effects of the war. 4.) Five Major characters: Ishmael Beah: Ishmael is the protagonist and the author of the novel. Ishmael serves for the Armed Services of Sierra Leone against the RUF out of revenge

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