How does the excerpt from A Long Way Gone end?
How does the excerpt from A Long Way Gone end?
Beah becomes an orphan and is made into a child soldier. Beah has a flashback of his grandmother’s village before the attack. Beah reflects on a comparison between the civil war and independence.
What is the name of the group who rescued Ishmael?
Beah took part in numerous battles with the army, but in early 1996, at the age of fifteen, he was rescued from the military by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and placed in a rehabilitation home in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city.
What does RUF stand for in a Long Way Gone?
Revolutionary United Front
What does the Palampo mean?
African word for “single,” as in unmarried.
What did the old man in kabati mean when he said we must strive to be like the moon?
An old man encourages Beah that they should “be like the moon”. When Ishmael asks his grandmother what this means, she explains that even though people complain when the sun shines too brightly, no one is annoyed by the brightness of the moon. Good things happen when the moon is full and its light is at its greatest.
What is a kamor?
In A Long Way Gone, kamor means teacher. The name is given to his grandfather, whom Beah says “was a well-known local Arabic scholar and healer…
What is a Wahlee?
Wahlee. (n) A place outside villages where people processed coffee or other crops (p. 98)
What good news does this man give Ishmael?
What good news does this man give Ishmael? He has seen and spoken to Ishmael’s mother, father, and brothers.
WHO DIES IN A LONG WAY GONE?
Ishmael and the other boy soldiers fight alongside the military, and Ishmael kills a man for the first time. Two of his close friends, Musa and Josiah, are shot, and he watches them die. The death of his friends stirs anger in Ishmael that allows him to fight harder.
What happened to Musa’s family in a Long Way Gone?
Kanei. Kanei is a Mende boy who escaped the rebels’ attack on his village with his parents, but lost his two sisters and three brothers in the chaos. He and his parents escape in a boat, but the boat capsized when rebels threw the passengers into panic by shooting at them.Il y a 3 jours
What lesson does the folktale of Bra Spider teach?
The moral of the Bra Spider story is not to be greedy, and instead appreciate what you do have. The villages were having a festival.
Who is Gasemu?
Gasemu is a single man from Ishmael’s village. Ishmael and his companions find him on a banana farm then help him carry bananas as they walk back to the village where Ishmael hopes to find his family. He blames Gasemu for making them go slower and stop to pick up the bananas.
What ends up happening to Mambu?
What happens to Mambu and why? Mambu went back to the front lines, because his family wouldn’t take him in. They probably wouldn’t take him in, because the war brainwashed him to be a monster.
What was Ishmael Beah’s home village as a child?
In 1993, when Beah was 12, he left his home village of Mogbwemo in Sierra Leone, a country which was then in the early stages of a horrible civil war, largely the result of internal government corruption. Beah set out to walk 16 miles with his friends for an overnight trip to a talent show in the town of Mattru Jong.
Why is Ishmael going to Mattru?
Ishmael and his friends went to Mattru Jong to participate in a friend’s talent show as rapper. Describe what life was like in Sierra Leone when the rebels began to come. When the rebels came to Sierra Leone, there was gunfire, bullet wounds, and death as well as burning of villages and destruction.
What does the medicine Ishmael’s grandfather give him to drink allow him to do?
He connects his encounter with the snake to his grandfather’s medicine allowing him to resist snakebites (which Beah says will not work anymore due to his lack of faith in the medicine), and utilizes his grandfather’s forest lore to bathe himself properly.
Why do the boys decide not to return to Mogbwemo after going back to Beah’s grandmother village of Kabati?
War influences peoples responses. Why didn’t the boys return to Mogbwemo after going to Beah’s grandmother’s Kabati village? They would most likely be forced to join the rebels, who would then brand their chests with “RUF”, which would target them after the war.
What were Ishmael and his older brother Junior and his friend Talloi planning to do when they left home?
One morning, Ishmael leaves home with his older brother, Junior, and his friend, Talloi, who are both 13 years old. The boys are planning to walk to Mattru Jong, a village about 16 miles away, to compete in their friend’s talent show.
How do the refugees foreshadow what is to come for Ishmael?
Ishmael is only ten years old at beginning, and his imagination doesn’t have the capacity to understand what refugee children have witnessed. This foreshadows his own haunted and desolate look after war invades his life. 2.
How old was Ishmael when he was first touched by war?
Ishmael’s story begins when he is ten years old, two years before the civil war comes to his village. He describes the idea of war as entirely abstract to his young mind and insists that he and his fellow villagers didn’t have the capacity to understand what the refugees coming through his village had experienced.
What do the rebels do to the old man?
The rebels taunt and torture an old man and force Ishmael’s group to watch and to laugh. Ishmael is shocked because, before the war, no one of his age would dare disrespect an elder like that; war has negated the social norms.
How did the Refugees Act that walked through their town?
How did the refugees act that walked through their town? The refugees that walked through town were paranoid, because they would often jump and the sound of chopping woods or as stones landed on the tin roofs that were flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. 2.
How does Ishmael react when he is captured by the government soldiers?
After walking for days, the boys are captured by a group of soldiers and taken to Yele, a village occupied by the military. But Ishmael suffers migraines and nightmares and withdraws from village life.