No one knows what will happen in his or her life whether it is a trivial family dispute or a civil war. Ishmael Beah and Mariatu Kamara are both child victims of war with extremely different life stories. Both of them are authors who have written about their first-hand experience of the truth of the war in order to voice out to the world to be aware of what is happening. Beah wrote A Long Way Gone while Kamara wrote The Bite of the Mango. However, their autobiographies give different information to their readers because of different points of view. Since the overall story of Ishmael Beah includes many psychological and physical aspects of war, his book is more influential and informative to the world than Kamara’s book. Both Beah and Kamara do share a similar event recovering from the war in their books. Upon traveling across the world to North America, Beah and Kamara would include this trip as crucial points to their stories. One main purpose of these books is to inform the world of the tragedies that happen outside one’s own country. Traveling to another continent has allowed them to spread the truth about Sierra Leone’s civil war. Each author thoroughly describes what it is like to live under the harsh conditions. Although these authors lived in the same world filled with blood and horror, their life stories are significantly divergent. Kamara’s story does give a glimpse of what it is like to be a part of this conflict, but this is her story as a civilian. Through her inner thoughts, Kamara describes the feelings of a civilian running away from the rebels. She had encountered the rebels when they burned down her home and when they cut off her hands. After being injured by the rebels, she tries to escape to... ... middle of paper ... ...ivilian running from war. Kamara’s story is mostly of her own life and how she survived the war, which does inform the world about how the war is to a young child and the importance of morals. However, Beah’s story includes the lives of many people he met that were involved in war. His story left a deep impression on a young teenager. All stories can be informing, but those that contain the true and insightful view of the author can create influences to a diverse audience. Works Cited Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone. New York: Sarah Critchton Books, 2007. Print. Engberg, Gillian. "The Bite of the Mango." Booklist 1 Jan. 2009: 59. General OneFile. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. Kamara, Mariatu and Susan McClelland. The Bite of the Mango. New York: Annick Press Ltd., 2008. Print. Ruiz, Miguel. “A Long Way Gone.” TeenInk 24.1(2012): 31-31 1/5. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.
The main theory behind such writing is awakening the people back at home, and showing them the seriousness of the situation. Instead of sugar-coating details, or giving just positive accounts of war, it is essential to tell the peopl...
The memoir is divided up into three parts . The first part of memoir is “The Draft, the Decisions, and The Nam “ followed by the second part “Thailand and The World” ,which describes the time when the author returns to comprehend all that he had experienced. Finally, the third part of the memoir is “The Aftermath” in which the author writes about life after Vietnam. The memoir recounts his progression through his decision to enroll in the draft , the painful realization of what his life would be, and all the horrors that were brought about it. By splitting the memoir into three distinct parts, the author provides a depiction of important events that transpired, and provides insight into what he was thinking during the time. Unfortunately, it may come across as a little too confusing for the reader to follow because of the transitions that Ketwig makes from battle scenes to flashbacks that transpired in the past . Overall the organization of Ketwig’s memoir is very straight-forward and to the point however at times confusing that it makes you have to take a time out to regroup on what you just
... film is quiet and thoughtful, yet it takes a forceful approach in shaping its point and view about the presence of war. Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun nevertheless turns on a transformation by a father stuck in a war-torn Chad. The overall arch of the story demonstrates how generations can shape and reshape each other, even during the hardships of war. A Screaming Man simply states how war is always closer to those surrounding it, even when if they are not affected by it first hand. Overall, it seems that Haroun is trying to state just this for the audience. As families already struggle to survive and that not only is living a difficulty in life, but the sacrifices of those who live in the city must face. Not only does it feel like he is trying to pinpoint Chad directly when it comes to this, but instead war in general and those who have to deal with the outcome.
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The lives of many were altered or ended during the most horrific period of their lives. The Civil War of Sierra Leone was devastating and affected many citizens in various ways. Many lost their lives to the brutal violence while some were mentally traumatized from what they saw and what they did. A Long Way Gone and The Bite of the Mango are two accounts of children who had lived during this time period; they express the hardships and physical trials people endured in Sierra Leone. The characters may have both been victims of the war, but both found different ways to survive.
...d issues of post-colonialism in Crossing the Mangrove. It is clear that Conde favors multiplicity when it comes to ideas of language, narrative, culture, and identity. The notion that anything can be understood through one, objective lens is destroyed through her practice of intertextuality, her crafting of one character's story through multiple perspectives, and her use of the motif of trees and roots. In the end, everything – the literary canon, Creole identity, narrative – is jumbled, chaotic, and rhizomic; in general, any attempts at decryption require the employment of multiple (aforementioned) methodologies.
Though he tries to remain analytical, questioning if indeed “... [in] The 21st century, there were still nomadic hunter-gatherers out there using stone tools and rubbing sticks together to start a fire,” Behar soon begins to exhibit visceral reactions to the environment (Behar, 1). Though he claims to be in Papua for journalistic purposes, Behar cannot maintain an impartial disposition. After contact with tribesmen one of Woolford’s native outfitters believed to be native peoples, Behar undergoes a transformation. That evening, he begins to fear his surroundings, telling readers “The jungle is claustrophobic and, at times, maddening—the incessant rain, heat, and mud, the screeching of cicadas, the eerie sensation we're being watched” (Behar, 9). Abandoning his logical, systematic disguise, Behar becomes paranoid, becoming one with the primeval essence of the jungle.
Throughout the book, O’Brien reflected on many personal interpretations of the war, some being physical, spiritual, and
According to the previous reviews of Phil Klay’s book, countless human manifestations results from collisions with young and armed Americans with a foreign country, whereby a few of them understands. Reviews captures on the manner in which the war evoked as well as emotions, predicaments, and heartbreaks. The reader looks forward to understand the outcome of the war. However, what makes the reader apprehensive is that the stories resonate with themes, such as battle, images of outstanding battleground pain, as well as psychological trauma due to the nature of the war, nuances of human nature and the associated violence.
War is a prominent theme that saturates my texts of “American Sniper” directed by Clint Eastwood, “The Book Thief” written by Markus Zusak, “Dulce et Decorum est” written by world war 1 soldier and poet Wilfred Owen and “Syria’s Children” written by Ruerd Visser. The connections explored and interwoven between these texts includes how society has twisted out perception of the realities of war as well as the innocence lost by the children caught in the crossfire of guns and bombs. Two of the texts are nearly 100 years apart, each a different war, but yet the same outcome.
The second chapter will be the first close analysis of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson. This chapter will include a small synopsis of the novel, the findings through close-reading and a compare and contrast section that will link the novel to the academic texts mentioned earlier. The third chapter will be of the same structure as the second chapter, but chapter three will be about Landing (2007) by Emma Donoghue. Finally the conclusion will be a summary of the results from the analyses and form the answer to the research
These reports are filled with interesting and entertaining details that put exciting, exotic images in the reader’s mind. Aware that his readers had never seen Native Americans and that most likely never would, Cabeza de Vaca made sure to fill his pages with the most shocking and foreign aspects of the natives’ cultures. Of the Capoque and Han people he met, he writes, “The men bore through one of their nipples, some both, and insert a joint of cane two and a half palms long by two fingers thick. They also bore their lower lip and wear a piece of cane in it…” (61). Of their eating habits, he writes, “Three months out of every year they eat nothing but oysters and drink very bad water”
War is mutilation, blood, death, and agony and results of war are never pleasing even to those who had won that war. According to a quote said by Dalai Lama,”War is monstrous. Its very nature is one tragedy and suffering.” Not only does it shred a country's economy but also the people living in it, mentally and physically. When innocent boys are pulled away to represent their country, they have no idea what they are getting into. They leave home full of enthusiasm for life and a desire to serve their country nobly, but it is not long before they realize that war is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
Today, we only hear of these horrors through television, word of mouth, but never by experience, which is true, for the young boys in Sierra Leone. Ishmael and his friends, who survived, know what it is like to hold a gun, to not be able to eat for more than two days, to kill or not to be killed. At such a tender age of maybe thirteen, these young boys of Sierra Leone have had more painful memories then an eighty-year old man in America. Ishmael tell of his horrors in the war and we may feel for him, but we as Americans will never be able to understand the full extent of his pain. He has been shot in the foot, lost his family, watched his own friends die before his eyes, and even tortured. Ishmael has had hope right in front of him, only to have it taken away by rebels and war. These are only half of his memories and already his story has out-shined that of an American young boy his
A memoir is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events that take place in their life. What are the effects of war a person? The impact of war on behavior and the mind. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) the term used to explain the effect of war and to describe the impact of a traumatic event on an individual. This essay will compare two different memories- Night and a long way went one is about the holocaust and the other Leone the three themes they have in common are dehumanization, disbelief, and expecting a loss of family. Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities