Author: Ishmael Beah Date of Publication: 2007

Brandie Schaan 8/9/2013

Name: Ishmael Beah Born in Sierra Leone in 1980. Talking about his own life. By 12, he was fleeing from his home from attacking rebels. At 13, he was part of the government army that went on raids against the rebels. Sent to a rehabilitation center that reentered him back into society.

Civil War Had his own experience Knows what other kids are going through

1985- Siaka Stevens retires

Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh becomes president

1991Revolutionary United Front (RUF) attacks villages in eastern Sierra Leone Didnt want All Peoples Congress (APC)

April 1992Military officers establish National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC)

1995 RUF control grows larger and then recedes

1996 Valentine Strasser replaces defense minister NPRC hands power over to civilian government through elections Tejan Kabbah wins election

1997 Kabbah overthrown by Armed Forces Revolutiona -ry Council (AFRC)

1998 President Kabbah is reinstated

Throughout all of this, the RUF has been attacking villages in Sierra Leone an recruiting young boys as soldiers.

Ishmaels perspective is portrayed in the book. The themes in this book are based on life or death. The historys affect on these themes just makes it harsher. Its nearly impossible for everybody to understand what Ishmael went through. Knowing how unstable the government and country was just makes it even harder. I do think that it gives a different meaning to the themes.

If I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament. (Beah 218)

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (Beah 20)

Situational Irony- Your parents and brothers will be happy to see you (92)

Personification- We must strive to be like the moon. (16)

Imagery- As I looked to where he lay, my eyes caught Musa, whose head was covered with blood. (118)

Oxymoron- All I felt was numbness to everything and so much energy (121)

Farrar, and Straus and Giroux, LLC. "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Official Site." A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Official Site. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 15 Feb. 2007. Web. 27 May 2013. <http://www.alongwaygone.com/>. Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Print.

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