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    Literature Help: A Long Way Gone
    Literature Help: A Long Way Gone
    Literature Help: A Long Way Gone
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    Literature Help: A Long Way Gone

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    The author describes how he was brainwashed by the army and they taught him the use of guns and drugs.

    In one year with the army he experienced a lot of bloodshed and violence in which he also took part.

    When he was sixteen years old, he was removed from his army unit by UNICEF. He was taken away and put into a rehabilitation programme.

    Some members of the staff there helped the author and he enabled himself to go back to a civilian life. He was also able to leave drugs.

    Literature Help: A Long Way Gone
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Main Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateSep 11, 2014
    ISBN9781310470011
    Literature Help: A Long Way Gone
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      Literature Help: A Long Way Gone

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was first published in 2007. Ishmael is now a very popular author from Sierra Leone. The book A Long Way Gone is a memoir. It portrays the experiences of the author as a child soldier.

      The book provides the firsthand account of the author’s early life when he was a child soldier during the 1990s while the civil war was on in Sierra Leone.

      When Beah was only 12 years old, he ran away from his native village. He left the village after it had been attacked by the rebels. After that he was never reunited with his immediate family.

      Sierra Leone was a war filled country in those days. The young boy wandered from place to place, trying to get some place somewhere. Eventually, he was compelled to join an army unit.

      The author describes how he was brainwashed by the army and they taught him the use of guns and drugs.

      In one year with the army he experienced a lot of bloodshed and violence in which he also took part.

      When he was sixteen years old, he was removed from his army unit by UNICEF. He was taken away and put into a rehabilitation programme.

      Some members of the staff there helped the author and he enabled himself to go back to a civilian life. He was also able to leave drugs.

      His experiences as a child soldier were going to be lessons for others. He was provided with an opportunity to tell and teach others about the lives of child soldiers.

      Eventually, he travelled to the United States where he recounted his story as a child soldier.

      A Long Way Gone came into prominence when the contemporary critics and literary reviewers went through it and spread the message about this unique book.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      The story begins in 1993. Ishmael Beah is in his early youth. One day, Beah, his older brothers, and two friends went to a nearby town for a talent competition.

      As the destiny would have it, their village was attacked by the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front the same evening.

      Mogbwemo was Beah’s home village. Everything around Beah became chaotic after that incident. He begins to look for any information about his family. He also wants to inform them about his and his companions’ survival.

      In the initial few chapters of the book he gets the information and details of the attacks mostly through hearsay and rumors. He continues to find his way home but when he comes to know that everything in the village has been wiped out he gets more anxious to know about the well-being of his family.

      Now, Beah, Junior, his brother, and their friends who have survived make a small party and begin to seek the peace which they had once known.

      It transpires that Beah used to love rap music, but now the harsh reality of everyday life that compels Beah and his companions to look for the ways to survive changes everything in their lives.

      After a few days, Beah and his friends get separated. Now he is quite alone. In the jungles, he has to face the danger of snakes, wild boars. He has to struggle to find something to eat. Then there is psychological isolation and fear.

      When he is reunited with his former companions, he comes to know that the village where the remaining members of his family had taken shelter has already been attacked by the RUF. The village has been completely destroyed.

      Beah has lost all hope of ever reuniting with his family. The military people take him to the government camp where he is treated well at first, but later on he comes to know that the

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