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A Long Way Gone:Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
"All I felt was numbness to everything and so much energy that I couldn't sleep for weeks. We watched movies at night. War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on…We all wanted to be like Rambo; we couldn't wait to implement his techniques” (Beah 121).
“The rebels did eventually come and everyone ran away, leaving their farms to be covered by weeds and devoured by animals. It was during that 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).
A Long Way Gone
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“That is why we need strong men and boys to help us fight these guys, so that we can keep this village safe. If you do not want to fight or help, that is fine. But you will not have rations and will not stay in this village” (Beah 106).
A Long Way Gone
By: Ishmael Beah
Where is the Love?
By: The Black Eyed Peas
A Long Way Gone
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Conflict
- Represents what is happening in the world.
- Represents how you feel after the book.
“The world that we're living in, people keep on giving in, making wrong decisions only visions of the dividend, not respecting each other, denying thy brother, a war going on, but the reasons undercover” (The Black Eyed Peas).
“When I point at you, fall out and form a line by the private. Understand”…”You, you…” the lieutenant pointed as he walked down the line. When the lieutenant picked me, I stared at his face, but he ignored me and continued his selection process…we followed the lieutenant toward the truck the visitors had arrived in” (Beah 129).
- Beginning of story: Ishmael emotionally didn't care about hurting people.
- By the end of story: he regrets what he did.
A Long Way Gone
Character Change
Author's Style
“None of these things are your fault,” she would always say sternly at the end of every conversation. Even though I had heard that phrase from every staff member-and frankly I had always hated it-I began that day to believe it. It was the genuine tone in Esther’s voice that made the phrase finally begin to sink into my mind and heart. That didn’t make me immune from the guilt that I felt for what I had done” (Beah 165).
“But we were still traumatized…Whenever I turned on the tap water, all I could see was blood gushing out. I would stare at it until it looked like water before drinking or taking a shower. Boys sometimes ran out of the hall screaming, “The rebels are coming.” Other times, the younger boys sat by rocks weeping and telling us that the rocks were their dead families” (Beah 145).