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 * __Art Work

The painting shows an image of two people being close. The book, __A Long Way Gone__**: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier**, also tells the story of friendship and the hardship they all went through together. With each passing day, their friendship gets stronger and stronger, that words are not necessary for them to understand each other.


 * __DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:__**

- How do you think the boys felt being captured again? - Would the man (who own the hut that they stayed in) have acted differently if he had not seen the boy's bloody soles? - How do you think always getting captures affects the boys psycologically? - What do you think about peoples (of the villiages) psycological state? Do you think that they act rationally? - Why do you think that cassets always come into play with their survival? - What is the the casset tapes significance?

Children throughout the course of history have been through the traumas and horrors of war. The story of Ishmael Beah reveals what it was truly like for a young teenage boy to be in the midsts of a war in his home country. Organizations like UNICEF, which actually recused Ishmael from the war, aid children in being freed from such gruesome and unhealthy environments. Below are a couple of links to articles from the UNICEF organization on children at war. Where nowhere to go Ishmael and his friends were forced to scatter about the plains and wild vegetation of Africa. He was somewhat of a war refugee, yet still trapped in his own land. Countlessly trapped and believed to be a rebel during his time when he strived to find safety, he was only, instead, stereotyped and hampered from reaching his goal of safety. Below is a link on children war refugees. __**Quotes**__
 * __CONNECTIONS__:**
 * Children at war general overview: http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/ciwcont.htm
 * Ishmael Beah speaks at the "Free Children From War" Conference in Paris: http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/ciwcont.htm
 * Refugee Children, Victims of War and Want: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0619_030618_refugeechildren.html
 * "We all laughed, as we knew he was mocking Musa for adding some details to the tale" (page 75)
 * "When we woke up the next morning, all the smoked meat was gone?" (page 77)
 * "To this day, I carry the pain that my sisters and my parents felt." (page 80)
 * "He just lay on his stomach, his face buried in the dust." (page 85)
 * __Words__**
 * Soukous-Celebration dance
 * Verandah-porch
 * Lappei-cloth
 * Leweh-rice paste