Mattru Jong

him and the people of Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone takes place in Sierra Leone, where the war had started. In first person point of view, Ishmael describes his experiences with his brother and friends while they were making their way to Mattru Jong, when they were informed of the rebels reaching Mogbwemo. With just him, his brother, and their friends, they were to work together and do whatever they can to survive the war. Things didn't go as planned as

time of war. The theme of this story is survival, and how adaptable human beings can be to any situation. Ishmael gets separated from his parents at a very young age. He is left to be with his friends since the rebels have entered their town of Mattru Jong. Ishmael starts to go through a phase in which he starts losing hope in life. He feels as though he has lost himself completely. The story signifies getting back up and putting life back together no matter the damage done. Ishmael is able to recover

In the beginning of the novel, Ishmael beah’s village Mattru Jong was attacked and was split up from his parents then got to the village ,kamator was attacked and had run into the forest and hid from the rebels . Ishmael had lost where his friends and brother went Ishmael had to learn to live on his own , finding food for himself and shelter and trying to find his family. “I looked around the forest for one of the medicinal leaves that Grandfather had said remove poison from the body.I might need

next minutes began roaming the bush without any idea where they are going, what will become their faith, and how to get to a safe place. Ishmael portrayed where you lay your treasure is where your mind will always be. The boys keeps going back to Mattru Jong despite the danger surrounding the village of being captured or killed by the rebels because, they left money, goods and food that could help their survival. At Kamator, after series trial and rigorous punishments suffered by the boys from the village

While he was in Mattru Jong rebels invaded and attacked his home in Mogbwemo and when he went back there more wounded people started coming in. He found out his parents were killed by the rebels and it changed him forever. Losing his parents changed him tremendously and brought

Ishmael that the rebels are ruthless and don’t care who they kill. Women, children, and even babies. One quote from the book that exemplifies this aspect of the book is “ The image of that women and her baby plagued my mind as we walked back to Mattru Jong” (14). This quote is important because it shows the reader that stuff like this could literally haunt a twelve year old for some time. In conclusion this is a very important scene in the book but it is not the only

In A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, symbolism is used in many different ways. The moon is a symbol that is used throughout the entire novel. The moon symbolizes hope and happiness. The moon reoccurs throughout the novel bringing these three things. The first reference to the moon in seen in Chapter 1. “‘We must strive to be like the moon’ an old man in Kabati repeated” (29). Beah often heard the old man say this phrase. However, he did not understand what the old man meant. When he presented the

able to show how he had hope when he lost his family, when he went to New York and when he tragically lost hope when he was in the war. Ishmael went through losing not only his siblings, but also his parents. At the very beginning of the book Mattru Jong was attacked by the rebels separating Ishmael from his parents. “We must go back and see if we can find our families before it is too late”(Beah 10). Instead of him and his brother running away from the attack, they decided to run back in hope of

Ishmael Beah, the author of the memoir A Long Way Gone, is a twelve-year old boy who is trapped inside a war zone in Sierra Leone, Africa. When his home town, Mattru Jong is attacked by “the rebels,” he is separated from his family and is forced to run from everything he once loved. Ishmael flees from town to town with other teenagers who face the same problems, trying to survive and escaping attacks from villagers. Beah writes, “People were terrified of boys our age. Some had heard rumors about

Just as many stories, both action and adventure, or comedy and crime, Beah’s narrative is created through his personal journey. In his journey he encounters many events and people. Out of those events are the negative and the positive ones. Thus, his journey revolves around the abstract idea of war and how neither him or his fellow villagers would come to a general understanding of what the refugees migrating to their village had perceived because it was too terrific and unpredictable. The three