a long way gone by Cress Stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1 By: Cress Stewart en-us 2017-11-12 22:06:49 UTC 2023-05-20 18:12:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hearts.png cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206043226 2017-11-12 22:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206043226 Author cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206043794 Ishmael Beah ]]> 2017-11-12 22:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206043794 Setting & time period cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206044465 Sierra Leone 
1900's ]]> 2017-11-12 22:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206044465 Motivation for journey cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206045836 Ishmael's motivation for the pilgrimage is to preform in a rap group
with his friends and older brother until his village is attacked. Ishmael gets separated from his friends and family now his motivation is to find them. ]]> 2017-11-12 22:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206045836 Characters cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206046940 Ishamael
Junior
Mohamed
Talloi
Khalilou
Gibrilla
Kaloko
Mamie Kpana 
Alhaji
Musa 
Kanei 
Ibrahim 
Saidu
Juman 
Moriba
Gasemu
Sheku
Josiah
Lieutenant Jabati
Corporal Gadafi
Mambu
Esther 
Leslie 
Mr. Karma 
Uncle Tommy 
Aunt Sally 
Allie 

]]> 2017-11-12 22:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206046940 Recommendation cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206049425 I recommend this book because it is very real. This books tells you about the troubles Ishmael, and his friends went through due to the war. I honestly teared up a few times while reading this book because some parts were intense. ]]> 2017-11-12 22:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206049425 Synopsis of story cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206049707 Ishmael lives in New York City now and he is telling the story about how he became a boy soldier. 
Along the way Ishmael experience tragic loses.
He does some horrible things while in the war and struggles with forgiving himself. ]]> 2017-11-12 22:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206049707 Quote cress_stewart https://padlet.com/cress_stewart/yergmsjy8xk1/wish/206053020 The idea of death didn't cross my mind at all and killing had became as easy as drinking water. my mind had not only snapped during the first killing, it had also stopped making remorseful records, or so it seemed. pg.122

This quote is important to Ishmael's journey because it shows how the war has changed him as a person. In the beginning Ishmael is afraid to hold an AK-47 now he doesn't thinks twice about killing someone. 
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