Mattru Jong

Ishmael Beah was at the age of thirteen when his childhood and innocence was taken from him. For example, Beah says “My childhood had gone without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen”(30). It happened so quickly. He was frantic with worry. Beah was forced to join the Sierra Leone military. It was not until later he himself started to believe he has lost his innocence. At this young age he was killing the rebels that traumatized him purely to seek revenge and to survive. His hate for

alive before becoming a child soldier. His rap cassette symbolizes his innocence to a group of voluntary village guards, who question he and his friend’s status in the war, as they attempt to bypass the village. The rap cassette with the help of a Mattru Jong regular talent show attendee’s voucher is able to convince the group of guards to release the boys (Beah, 2007, P38). Jumping to the final period of his memoir, the tape and his deep affection for

In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah encourages the opinion that everyone is responsible for his/her own actions in all cases. Beah proves this opinion to be true through death, thievery, and violence. Throughout the memoir there are many cases of death, some because of health reasons and others for intentional reasons. Through family, anger, and survival of the fittest, Beah makes being responsible for someone else’s death known. After Beah’s long, treacherous

happening in a faraway and different land.” It wasn't until Ishmael was ten years of age that the war personally affected him when refugees from other villages were forced into his own. When Ishmael left Mogbwemo to go perform in a talent show in Mattru Jong, a village a couple of miles away, with a few friends of his, rebels invaded neighboring villages sending everyone fleeing.

She was in too much pain and shock to shed tears.” This excerpt “plagued” Ishmael’s mind as he put it and brought to the boys attention that there was no possible way their families could still be in Mogbwemo and that they needed to return to Mattru Jong for safety. This is definitely a key passage because before this point, Ishmael had no real understanding of the gruesome, violent, and upsetting occurrences that war brought. He had never experienced war in real life and wasn’t used to it at all

Marlon Chavez Ms.Lindquist English 10R September 9 ,2017 1. The setting in a long way gone takes place in Sierra Leone during 1993 to 1997. Ishmael also goes to New York City in 1998. The effect that this setting has on the story is mostly the climate. The characters had to endure and survive the brutal heat and starvation. There is also a war going on at the time. The author uses imagery to discuss the setting. One example of violence filled setting is “In the back of the van were three

I have read about 7 books this past year. Over the summer, I have been reading weekly and sometimes a day to day basis. The book I chose to read for my summer reading assignment was A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. By judging this book by its title, I knew it was going to be a nonfiction piece focusing on one person’s experience on this gruesome topic. I expected this novel to graphic and eye opening about the life of a child soldier. Major Characters Ishmael Beah: The author

writes, ”No one was able to think clearly...Everyone just ran to save his or her life….Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives.” He’s describing the chaos and panic spread across a village called Mattru Jong by the rebels. Ishmael, his brother and their friends waited there in safety for news of their families, but were caught off guard by the rebel attack. This same situation

Justice Antrum English 10 05/19/2015 HHHCP Is It Worth It? In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah the main character, Ishmael Beah, encounters a lot of problems and all of those problems shape who he becomes throughout the story. Those obstacles make Ishmael more desperate to survive throughout the book. At the beginning of the book Ishmael isn 't ready for change. And when change comes with him losing his family he does not know what his next move is. He goes through villages

emptied to make sure they had no weapons. Ishmael says that “[t]he guards walked into the circle and started searching our pockets. One of them found a rap cassette in my pocket and handed it to the chief… [he] called for a young man who was from [Mattru Jong]... He knew my name, my brother’s, and those of my friends. He remembered us from performances we had done. None of us knew him, not even by his face, but we warmly