Long Way Gone
By: Ishmael beah
Internal Characterization
Ishmael beah is the main character in "Long way gone" and his Internal struggle is that he is a 12 years old and he is in a war and that must be hard for him and the struggle to survive and how much physical and mental pressure it is for Ishmael.
Historical Connection to past or present event
This book "A long way gone" has a connection to a past event in history when people had to work against there will with little to no pay and had to work very long and hard for mental and physical strength. The past event I am making a connection is when there were slaves. Also children worked as slaves a lot like adults and in Long Way Gone the children worked very hard so that is a similarity
Vocabulary Word 1: Halt
bring or come to an abrupt stop.
Vocabulary Word 2: Veranda
a roofed platform along the outside of a house, level with the ground floor.
Setting
In the book it starts off them living in a village but then the rebels come so they move around a lot and they are moving around in Sierre Leone in African for most of the book.
Self vs Man
In the book Ishmael and his friends are in the middle of a war and it is very hard to avoid the have to in encounter many challenges along the way and it is difficult for them to survive like being shoot at hunted for.
Self vs Self
Well Ishmael for a lot of the book is alone and he has to see so many terrible thinks and it effects him a lot, for example. "His loneliness is overwhelming, but he finds solace in the sounds of nature, which gratefully help to drown out his terrifying memories. He begins fearing sleep and where his thoughts might take him". this quote is showing how bad the struggle in being alone.