A Long Way Gone
By: Francesca Diaz
Ishmael Beah
- A gentle and kind boy
- At the age of 13 he was picked up b the government army & found that he was capable of awful acts
- He tells his story and how he came to forgive himself
- He is lucky to be alive
Historical Connection
The new Furor
- Donald Trump being seen as a new version of Hitler
- Sweet Ishmael is now seen as a sealer who must grow up and be able to handle war and hunger
Vocabulary
Mosque
- A Muslim place of worship
- When the villagers at the mosque and heard the rebels where near they ran home
- Kaloko stayed to pray
semi automatic machine gun
- Continuously fires rounds as long as the trigger is pressed
- This shows how the rebels had big expensive guns and Ishmael and his friends barely have food
- This gun scared Ishmael and his friends, the rebels also had a bullet belt
Setting
Sierra Leone
- Fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone, Africa
- Area of fighting was around Mattru Jong and Kamator
Conflicts
Man v.s self
- "The separation of our parents left marks on us that were visible to the youngest children in our towns"
- Ishmael was so angry at the way they pities him that he would kick their children behind school.
- Ishmael's true self is to be kind, but the stress from war is getting to him
Society
- Ishmael and his friends go to a village and are captured
- The villagers are afraid they are spies for the rebels
- Society now thinks everything has to do with the rebels
- They don't look at Ishmael and his friends as harmless boys, but as trained rebels