Mattru Jong

When war happens, bad things occur, and it is every man for himself. That is how Ishmael Beah felt in the text,A Long Way Gone. His situation of running constantly from enemy rebels ruined his childhood and filled it with despair and death. This is also the case with Tom Cruise in the movie Edge of Tomorrow. This movie is directed by Doug Liman and was produced by Warner Bros Pictures’ during the release year 2014. In this movie, Tom Cruise is forced to restart his life every time he dies and is

Main Idea: People did whatever it took to survive. 1. “That night we were so hungry that we stole people’s food while they slept.” This example of economics because even though they had money when they went back to Mattru Jong, the people wasn’t selling anymore because they had to survive also. In order for them to survive they had to steal the people food. 2. “We loaded the supplies in plastic bags and six of us went to the nearest market, where we sold them to a vendor.” This is an example of

friends. None of us knew him, not even by his face, but warmly smiles as if we recognized him as well. He saved our lives (ALWG 38).” In Beah’s life his music is what saves him. Also Beah leaves his home to visit the talent show in Mattru Jong. This trip to Mattru Jong saves his life also because his village was raided by the rebels. Music in our lives also pushes us through bad times, just not on the same level as

expecting either to see our families or to talk to someone who had seen them.” (Beah 10). In Beah’s quest to find his family and to survive is an unbelievable task for a 12 year old boy. After he gives up on waiting for his family, the rebels attack Mattru Jong. He barely escapes and is on his journey to find his family. As he wanders through the backlands of Sierra Leone, he describes the forests as “leafy,” “wet,” and “cold” in the winters. During the winters and falls, the land could be described as

getting through the war. When he was younger he and his friends would listen to rap music on their radio. They started remembering the words and making up dances to the songs. One day, he and three of his friends left their hometown and went to Mattru Jong to be in a talent show. That is when they first learned about war. While Ishmael was running away from rebels he would always start to sing songs that he had learned when he was younger.

Ishmael Beah, the author of A Long Way Gone and Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, both have an important war stories to tell to our generations. In Maus, we see a family portrait complicated by the legacy of the Holocaust, the bond of families are tested between Vladek, the survivor of the Holocaust and his son Artie, who is ultimately affected by the Holocaust as it reverberate through future generation. A Long Way Gone is a memoir of Ishmael Beah, afflicted by and forced to participate in the

Ishmael is a 12-year-old boy who enjoys listening and dancing to hip-hop music. During his spare time, he goes to visit his friends in Mattru Jong to play soccer and participate in other fulfilled activities. He is intrigued by the works of Shakespeare and likes to perform the different monologues from his plays. Although Ishmael did not have the finer things in life, he was able to live the best life out of what he had. Ishmael had a normal childhood before the war caused havoc in his village and

The cultural movement of hip hop music was created by African-Americans during the late 1960s and was composed of chanted rhythmic lyrics accompanied with a repeated beat, also known as rap music. Rap accentuated the syncopated, perpetual rhythms of percussion and other instruments. Its popularity continued in the 2000s and it transformed from being the music of choice of the predominantly poor and urban into conventional everyday music, bringing people from all over the world together (Blanchard)

before the village council. Because they have no identifying information, the chief threatens to have them drowned. They find a cassette tape of rap music in Ishmael's pocket and play it for the council. They are saved when a young boy from Mattru Jong remembers their rap group's performance and is able to name Ishmael, Junior, and

The first time he felt the impact of what was going on was in the neighboring town of his, Mattru Jong. He was with friends for a talent show when the attack took place: “When the rebels finally came, I was cooking. . . A minute later, three different guns rapidly went off. . . In a matter of seconds, people started screaming and running in different directions” (Beah, 23). As the attack in Mattru Jong took place, Beah only had his brother and his friends to accompany him as the rebels swept through