Starvation, thirst, war, and marauding bandits are only some of the things that the boys had to go through in order to reach freedom. In the article “The Lost Boys’’ three brothers travel more than 1,000 miles to reach freedom while going through unmentionable things. In another excerpt from the story “A Long Way Gone” it also talks about a group of boys that went through life changing events as well. These two group of boys have many similarities but they also have many differences between them. For example in both of the writings it talks about them going through starvation and the help they received from people along the way. They also had a difference between them which was where the group of boys had escaped to. Despite, one of the group …show more content…
of boy’s not ending up in the place they had thought they were going to be all the boys from both groups went through tragic events. In the article “The Lost Boys’’ and the excerpt from “” A Long Way Gone” they both talk about how two groups of boys both endured starvation and thirst. In both of the writings the boys walked many and many miles to reach freedom without food or water and we all know eventually people get weak and may die if they do not consume water or food. For example on page 550 in the article” The Lost Boys” the text states “Many died from starvation or thirst”. To add to that statement in the excerpt on page 27 from the story “A Long Way Gone” it stated “We could not find something substantial to eat. We got hungrier day after day, to the point our stomach were hurting and our vision blurred at times”. If that’s not enough for you I don’t know what is. These boys went through days and weeks without eating and what’s worse is that these boys are only about 12-18 years old. Could you ever imagine yourself in their position? There are many differences the two writings had but one of the differences that stood out to me was where the boys escaped to.
In the article “The Lost Boys” the boys ended their journey in the U.S. In the “A Long Way Gone” they ended up being in a military. Like I was saying “ The Lost Boys’’ ended their trip in the U.S. the text stated “ On the night I stand waiting for Peter Dut and his brothers to land in Fargo. The three boys file through the gate without money or coats or luggage beyond their small back packs”. The three brothers had finally reached America and received freedom after more than weeks and months of walking. In contrast in the excerpt from “A Long Way Gone’’ it talks about the boys being watched and scheduled and about how they must follow orders or otherwise. It also talked about how they could be watching a movie and all of a sudden they had to go to war and when they finish fighting and killing they would come back and finish the movie as if nothing had happened. But he did not mind killing and being in the military he sort of liked it. Both group of boys escaped but they escaped to different things. The Lost Boys went for peace and freedom but the others went for being the bad guys this time (they went from innocent kids to trained
assassins). The second thing they have in common is that both groups of boys received help from people. For example in the article ‘’ The Lost Boys” on page 551-552 it states “Case Worker shows the boys to do many things we know to do at a very young age”. In the text it talks about how the case worker give them their basic needs (donates clothes, food, and etc.)and also shows them how to open up boxes and cans. The case worker was practically there teacher for the real world she teaches them all the basic things we know when we were about 10+ years old and up. In the excerpt from ‘’ A Long Way Gone’’ those boys also received help just in a different form. On page 63 it states ‘’ our host brought us water and food every morning and night’’. The other example from that story’s excerpt is from page 61 and it states ‘’ Brought with her dried fish and water”. Both of these quotes from the story have to do with the boys being helped by being given food and water. So in both writing both group of boys were helped in a major way even though the things the people did sound small are actually huge to them. The impact that the two group of boys received from there experience are completely different. The reason why I say that the boys effects from their journeys are different is because in the ‘’ A Long Way Gone” they boys went from innocent kids to drug addicts and violent murders and in the ‘’The Lost Boys’’ they became free and at peace and they also tried to fit in with kids their age. To justify what I have just written in the excerpt ‘’ ALWG” it states ‘’I took turns at the guarding post around the village , smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder, which was always spread out on the table, and of course taking more white capsules, as I have become addicted to them”. Like I said the boys from ‘’ ALWG” were innocent kids at first but then were introduced to gruesome wars and after that everything went downhill. He became a rebel, drug addict, and a murder. In contrast in the article ‘’ The Lost Boys’’ the boys went to the U.S. to gain freedom and peace. They also wanted to fit into their age of kids and be normal teenagers. For example on page 553 there an illustration that show one of the boys standing in line and the caption underneath it states ‘’ Riak Dut, shown here in his school line, eats alone most days”. The only thing the brothers want is FREEDOM, PEACE, and to fit in with their other peers”. In conclusion the two group of boys went through many downfalls to reach their goal. They might have gone through different types of downfall but all in all both groups both ended up in the place they wished to be. These boys are true soldiers they went through months of misery at the age of 12 to 18. That’s why all of us kids that have a home, family, food, and a school to attend should be thankful because many kids don’t have that. We should also be grateful that we have the freedom because other kids would kill to have freedom. Are you thankful for the freedom you have?
This is a story that is about ten soldier boys on an island left to fend for themselves even with many sacrifices. There were many similarities and differences between the book and the movie.
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
The two brothers began their travels and go to many places. They woke up in a different town and Joey was asking Josh if they had eaten breakfast. Without a quick response Josh soon got up and so did Joey and a walked a few miles to eat breakfast. They traveled long distances from week to week usually in a farmer’s truck. They often got rides from kind farmers who were willing or did not mind giving them a ride.
In the document “Doomed to Perish”: George Catlin’s Depictions of the Mandan by Katheryn S. Hight, she analyzes the work of George Catlin while he traveled to the Mandan colony west of the Missouri River. Hight identifies that Catlin created a false and imaginative depiction of the Mandan Indians based on his social and political ideas which ended up creating an entertainment enterprise rather than reporting history. Catlin’s extravagant depictions of the Indians, which did have an impact on the Indian Policy in America, seemingly motivates Hight to write on this subject.
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, a former boy soldier with the Sierra Leone army during its civil war(1991- 2002) with the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), provides an extraordinary and heartbreaking account of the war, his experience as a child soldier and his days at a rehabilitation center. At the age of twelve, when the RUF rebels attack his village named Mogbwemo in Sierro Leone, while he is away with his brother and some friends, his life takes a major twist. While seeking news of his family, Beah and his friends find themselves constantly running and hiding as they desperately strive to survive in a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. During this time, he loses his dear ones and left alone in the wilderness, is forced to face many physical and psychological dangers. By thirteen, he has been picked up by the government army, and is conditioned to fight in the war by being provided with as many drugs as he could consume (cocaine and marijuana), rudimentary training, and an AK-47. In the next two years, Beah goes on a mind-bending killing spree to avenge the death of his dear ones. At sixteen, he was picked up by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at the rehabilitation center, he learns to forgive himself and to regain his humanity.
... it is all laid out in chapter form, each chapter from a different of the three protagonists perspective. The start from their gives background information on how these people lived in that time, it tells from everyday life to details of getting there father mauled by a lion (no, seriously… ouch, right?) Then it goes on and tells the story of the unfairness and the bombings… finally it comes to the bulk of the story, the travelling. This is at this point, the three boys have been split up already, they make their journey through many places along quite a long time, they go across the Nile River, to Ethiopia, back way down the map to Kenya and finally, together again, they end up in the Kakuma Refugee Camp. This isn't the end however, this book has a sort of Epilogue that explains what happens next, how they get the America, and that is what finishes it off. The End.
In his memoir, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah deals with his loss of innocence as he is forced to join the children army of Sierra Leone in the country's civil war after being conscripted to the army that once destroyed his town in order for Ishmael to survive. His memoir acts as a voice to show the many difficulties that the members of Sierra Leone's child army had to suffer through and their day to day struggle to survive in the worst of conditions. In order to escape the perils and trials of war, Ishmael loses his innocence as he transitions from a child who liked to rap with his friends to a cold blooded solider in the army during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Through his transition, Ishmael is forced to resort to the addiction of drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, and “brown-brown” just so that he, along with the other members of the child army can have the courage to be able to kill their fellow countrymen and slaughter entire towns who stand in their paths. In order to portray his struggles in the army, Ishmael uses the dramatic elements of memories explained using flashback, dialogue, and first-person narration in order to establish the theme of the memoir being how war causes for a child to lose its innocence. The transition shown in the memoir illustrates how the title of the novel, A Long Way Gone, was chosen because it demonstrates how he is a long way gone psychologically, emotionally, and physically, from the child that he was when the memoir begins to the soldier that he is forced to become.
In “A Long Way Gone”, we follow a twelve-year-old African boy, Ishmael Beah, who was in the midst, let alone survived a civil war in Sierra Leone, that turned his world upside down. Ishmael was a kind and innocent boy, who lived in a village where everybody knew each other and happiness was clearly vibrant amongst all the villagers. Throughout the novel, he describes the horrific scenes he encounters that would seem unreal and traumatizing to any reader. The main key to his survival is family, who swap out from being related to becoming non-blood related people who he journeys with and meets along his journey by chance.
As a result, their lives changed, for better or for worse. They were inexperienced, and therefore made many mistakes, which made their life in Chicago very worrisome. However, their ideology and strong belief in determination and hard work kept them alive. In a land swarming with predators, this family of delicate prey found their place and made the best of it, despite the fact that America, a somewhat disarranged and hazardous jungle, was not the wholesome promise-land they had predicted it to be.
An attention-grabbing story of a youngster’s voyage from end to end. In “A LONG WAY GONE,” Ishmael Beah, at present twenty six years old tells a fascinating story he had always kept from everyone. When he was twelve years of age, he escaped attacking the revolutionaries and roamed a land-living rendered distorted by violence. By thirteen, he’d been chosen up by the government military and Ishmael Beah at nature a gentle young boy, bring into being that he was accomplished of really dreadful deeds. Few days later on the rampage he is unrestricted by military and referred to a UNICEF rehabilitation centre, he wriggled to re-claim his humankind and to re-enter the biosphere of non-combatants, who seen him with terror and distrust . This is at preceding a story of revitalisation and hopefulness.
While the boys stranded on the island begin with the basis of a plan to keep order, as time progresses, they are faced with conflicts that ultimately brings an end to their civilized ways. Initially, Ralph, the assumed leader, ran a democratic-like process on the island; however, later in the story, Jack, one of the boys, realizes that there are no longer any consequences to their wrongdoings for the reason that there was no control. This ties in with the ideal that moral behavior is forced upon individuals by civilization and when they are left on their own, they return to their fundamental instinct of savagery. Furthermore, there is a differentiation in beliefs that result in chaos due to the fact that some favored an uncultivated manner of life over an ordered structure. Opposing ideas are commonly known t...
The boys had to say together so they could survive and not get caught by the rebel force. Also people in the villages thought they were a part of the rebel force and would hid from them. They would fight over getting caught and not being able to get food. He shows resiliences in this by not fighting them also but acting mature and trying to keep everyone from getting
War makes boys into men, as you will discover in the read of Soldiers Heart and Red Badge of Courage. These books have numerous contrasts, like how Henry and Charley differ in age. Although the two boys are different in many ways. However, the young boys have very few similarities. The two books have numerous compare and contrast.
In the articles, “Are These Stories True? (Nope.)” by Kristin Lewis and “The Story That Got Away” by Debby Waldman, the appeal of fake news and counterfeit stories is explained. One reason why people may find it interesting is because they are re-telling stories that they have heard before, but with a slight twist to make it seem worse than it was. For example, in the folktale “The Story That Got Away”, it gives an illustration of why it is appealing by saying, “At the schoolyard, Yankel told his friends his latest story. ‘Reb Wulff put salt in the rugelach. Not sugar! Salt! Imagine that!’ Yankel said. ‘Those rugelach tasted like stones!’” (Waldman, 14). The boy, Yankel, was recounting what he heard in his father’s shop, which may have seemed
In his essay “I Have Been to the Darkest Corners,” Glenn Greenwald attempts to convince the reader that Edward Snowden did not betray the U.S by leaking top-secret government documents proving that the government is spying on its citizens. He even goes as far as aiming to persuade people into believing that Snowden is actually a hero and martyr for enlightening the general public by focusing on the clear distinction between those in the know (the government) and the common people, who did not know they were being spied on. Charles Duhigg on the other hand, while still dealing with spying, focuses on companies spying on their customers while also touching on a (not so clear) distinction between the companies the consumers. While both essays seem to be about the power struggle between the spy-er and the spy-ee, they are truly about institutions manipulating