From child to soldier to author by Kamau Reed https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier Final Project by Kamau Reed en-us 2017-05-11 13:25:01 UTC 2023-02-08 05:10:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Teaser Box 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/171252190 This is a picture of Ishmael Beah, the author of  the book "A Long Way Gone".
The story is an autobiography of his life, primarily about the time in his life where he had lived through the war in Sierra Leone. One of the main points of the story is how much it tries to convey to us the horrible atrocities of war. Another atrocity of war and another main point is just seeing how a scared young boy who would almost throw up at the site of dead could be transformed into an angry soldier capable of slitting the throats of innocence. The last part of the story explains how he had escaped his horrible life in Sierra Leone and started a new one in america helping the children of war. One of the big takeaways from this book is that life really sucks but if you fight and hold on to hope you can get through it.

]]> 2017-05-11 13:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/171252190 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/171253447 2017-05-11 13:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/171253447 Music Video 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/171253833 1."It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under."
2."Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head."
3."A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too
Because only God knows what you'll go through."]]> 2017-05-11 13:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/171253833 Symbolic Background kamau6789 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172304712 These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.
-Ishmael Beah, p. 20

I had tried to find a picture that represented the 3 parts of his life his dreams as a kid, his memories of being a soldier, and his new experiences of being an author.

]]> 2017-05-17 12:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172304712 The child rapper 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172699246 "At the end of the song, he rubbed his beard and said that he was impressed with my dancing and found the singing "interesting"."
- Chapter 9, page 68
Watching rap music videos and preforming the rap songs and dances they had saw on the videos was one of Ishmael and his friends main sources of fun and it had allowed them to temporary ignore the going on.

]]> 2017-05-18 23:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172699246 The bra spider story 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172710520 "Bra spider stories are always good no matter how many times you have heard them"
- Chapter 10, page 73
The bra spider story was a story told to Ishmael by Musa a boy he was traveling it had helped to give the boys a little piece of mind in the troubling time of war.]]> 2017-05-19 01:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172710520 The army drugs 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172730196 "In the daytime, instead of playing soccer in 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 had become addicted." 
- Chapter 14, page 124
The army had made the kids get addicted to drugs so that they would be dependent on the army and never leave. The drugs had also made it so that the kid didn't want to sleep so that the army had ready soldiers 24/7.]]> 2017-05-19 05:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/172730196 Leaving the army 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173019544 "What was happening? Our faces followed the lieutenant as he walked to his house. Why had the lieutenant decided to give us up to these civilians?" 
- Chapter 15, page 129
Ishmael was angry, scared and sad when he had to leave the army because he had saw the soldiers in the squad as his new family that would help him to kill the rebels that killed his old family.

]]> 2017-05-21 22:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173019544 The winter paradise 1048168 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173020772 "When Bah and I stepped through the sliding doors, we were greeted by an extremely cold wind. I felt my skin tighten, I couldn't feel my face, and it seemed my ears had fallen off; my fingers hurt, and my teeth chattered. The wind penetrated through the summer pants and T-shirt I was wearing, and it felt as though I wasn't wearing anything."
- Chapter 20, page 193
Ishmael was immediately surprised when he had arrived in New York for two reasons. he first one was the fact that it was winter in New York and he had never seen snow before because it does not snow in Sierra Leone. The second reason is the fact that he had only known about New York from the rap videos he used to watch which had depicted the city as war torn and savage as his home.]]> 2017-05-21 23:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173020772 Final essay kamau6789 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173120685 2017-05-22 12:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173120685 Essay picture kamau6789 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173121636 2017-05-22 12:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173121636 Essay picture kamau6789 https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173121999 2017-05-22 12:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1048168/d1cmyuom0mqq/wish/173121999