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From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes A Long Way Gone Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays.
A short summary of Ismael Beah's A Long Way Gone. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Long Way Gone.
A summary of Chapters 1–2 in Ismael Beah's A Long Way Gone. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of A Long Way Gone and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
A Long Way Gone is the story of the book’s author Ishmael Beah struggling to survive during the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. He is narrating the story from some point years later as a high school student living in New York City, and he begins his tale by describing a memory from when he is ten years old in his hometown of Mogbwemo ...
A list of all the characters in A Long Way Gone. A Long Way Gone characters include: Ishmael Beah, Junior, Ishmael's Mother and Father, Esther, Uncle Tommy.
A Long Way Gone demonstrates Ishmael’s process of healing through the forging of new connections. The first friend Ishmael makes after he is rescued from the ongoing war is Esther, a nurse at the rehabilitation center.
Explanation of the famous quotes in A Long Way Gone, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
When Ishmael finds himself in a dark forest alone, he first wants to find a way out, but then he decides that it is better to stay where ehe is, even if he is lost and lonely. The sounds of the forest also offer some comfort and help to distract Ishmael from thinking about his family and the war.
Junior likely dies in the attack on Kamator, highlighting another possible fate for Ishmael and signifying a change in his character that ultimately gives way to a total loss of innocence. A detailed description and in-depth analysis of Junior in A Long Way Gone.
Although the dream paints a bloody and violent scene, it signifies an important phase of healing. For the first time since being brainwashed, he can see the violence he committed as wrong. But more importantly he is finally able to empathize with his victims. The victims’ cries cause Ishmael to feel anguish.