In 1991, Sierra Leone’s Civil War began. More than 50,000 people were killed, over a million had not been found. Numerous people had been raped, had their limbs cut off, and more (Human Rights Watch, 1999). Also, “…25 times as many people [had] been killed compared to that in Kosovo when the international community decided […]
In this review, I will summarize chapter three of Ishmael Beah’s autobiography ”A Long Way Gone.” In this chapter, rebel forces invade the village where Ishmael has been staying since his own village was attacked. Ismeal, Junior and other boys stayed at Mattru Jong and didn’t know what else to do. They heard that the […]
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Get startedAfter Ishmael is captured by the military he is controlled to be a soldier. The military takes away all his cloth and stuff and gives him a uniform. Ishmael is heart broken when the pants that the cassettes were in are destroyed. Ishmael explains in the book “I ran toward the fire, but the cassettes […]
At the age of 12 years old Ishmael Beah finds himself in the middle of a civil war with rebels called RUF ( Revolutionary United Front) and innocent civilians. Starting to how this all can about. Ishmael was born in Sierra Leone, who declared independence in 1961. In 1974 Milton Margai became first prime minister […]
From a young age Ishmael Beah has loved rap music. Ishmael has a “soundtrack” to his life. His life is heavily influenced by rap music, and shows parallels to rapper’s. In the novel “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah, he leaves his family and village at age 12, he goes looking for work. After […]
In the book A Long Way Gone a boy named Ishmael Beah is going through a civil war in Sierra Leone. He is faced with death, hunger and loneliness. In the beginning of the book he is separated from his family and is forced to leave his hometown. He leaves with his older brother and […]
This story is a biography about a child soldier who has lost everything and everyone, Ishmael Beah was a twelve year old boy who becomes a soldier during a war in Sierra Leone which is a country in west Africa. Music, music was an important part of Ishmael’s life because it brought out a part […]
Nigeria the terrorist group boko haram recruited 2,000 child soldiers in 2016. Somalia round 150 children were reportedly abducted for recruitment. South sudan estimated 17,000 children since 2013. Syrian more than half of children recruited in cases verified by UNICEF in 2015 were under 15. Yemen there have been nearly 1,500 cases of child recruitment […]
The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros depicts the life of a twelve-year-old girl, Esperanza, who within a year transforms into a woman. She outlines Esperanza’s life as she grows hips, starts to be curious about boys, evolves emotionally, and suffers sexual assault. In The House on […]
Esperanza, the main character in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a strong-willed girl who dreams big despite her surroundings and limitations. Throughout the book, Esperanza struggles to find for who she is. Her endless search causes a number of things to contribute to her coming of age. Esperanza goes through many […]
Samuel Johnson once said “Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.” Esperanza has a lot of desire for the home that she can point to, the house that she can feel she belongs to, and that desire helps push her to getting that house. In The House on Mango Street, a novella by […]
A female is not weak nor fragile, she is strong and all she needs is a little bit of love. In the novella The House on Mango Street Cisneros uses the motif trapped. Most of the females in The House On Mango Street feel imprisoned by the ones they love most and restricted from living […]
Gender roles are a significant component in The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. From the outset of the novel, Esperanza faces an identity crisis as she develops from a girl into a woman. Throughout her life, Esperanza experiences the differences between genders, specifically after moving in. She observes the girls and women living […]
Coming of age is like a plant, starts off as nothing but a seed, small, sweet, and innocent but slowly over time begins to grow into something much bigger. Much like a plant is a person, that can grow and learn and this can be seen in the novel “House On Mango Street” written by […]
In the film Lion, it is an unimaginable true story brought to life, and is an affecting yet nevertheless life-affirming human drama about a young Indian boy who finds himself thousands of miles from home. Separated from his family for more than twenty five years, the boy eventually attempts to find his way back home […]
The most controversial aspect of Gone With the Wind is the film’s depiction of race relations. Though freed from the novel’s positive portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan, Gone With the Wind’s depiction of slavery remains decidedly simplistic. Adopting historian U. B. Phillip’s “plantation school” view of the institution, the film shows slaves as well-treated, […]
The story of Esperanza is one that many minorities face, even in today’s society. Every day she had to deal with things from both a poverty and racist standpoint. She talks about how the poverty she faced affected the way she looked at her self. She also goes on to talk about how the racial […]
Everyone has crazy neighbors. Esperanza Cordero, the protagonist of House on Mango Street knows that all too well. Esperanza is a young girl who lives in a barrio in Chicago with her family in a small, beat up house where the whole family shares one bedroom. This house is one of many in which she […]
The House on Mango Street, a fictional novel written by Sandra Cisneros in 2009, takes place in a poor city in Mexico. Esperanza, the narrator and the main character of this novel feels insecure about herself and feels like she doesn’t belong in her neighborhood. The book shows how Esperanza has grown throughout the year. […]
Always feeling accepted is a feeling that s hard to have on a regular basis. Acceptance is something we all should want to give and to receive but is also something everyone struggles with whether you’re the one accepting or the one being accepted. In the book ‘ The House on Mango Street’, Esperanza struggles […]
The Author Sandra Cisneros writes and describes a novel about the life from a perspective teenage Latina, Esperanza Cordero. She tells about this young girls living in a poor Chicano and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Chicago. Growing up in the poor neighborhood on a street called Mango Street. Where you have to have good sense, […]
The feminist movement in the antebellum south was to gain rights for women. Many feminist throughout the early nineteenth century fought to abolish slavery in the United States. This notion is shown in a slave narrative that was a powerful feminist tool in the nineteenth century. Black and white women in the slave narrative are […]
Esperanza was happy for the house and she thought it was going to be like their dream house. The house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. When they got to the house it was very different but they were happy anyway. They never had […]
Most people have heard at least once in their life that hard choice is the right choice and this seems to be the case for the traveler. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is a poem about a traveler in the woods on a beautiful autumn day. During his journey through the woods, he […]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl has been used throughout history since it was written as an integral piece of the historiography of slavery, women in slavery, and resistance to slavery. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, an autobiography which traces Harriet Jacobs’ life born into slavery through adulthood, and eventual […]
Though our history books may recount facts about the system of slavery in early America, it is only with testimonial accounts from those who lived through this horrible system that true, raw light may be shined on the reality of what slaves experienced during this time. Harriet Jacobs, born into slavery in the fall of […]
Incidents in the life of a slave is a document written to depict the personal experiences of a women born into slavery. A life where one negative person gets to overshadow your dreams, your hopes, and your whole life with their power. This document was written by a slave girl, Harriet Jacobs. Jacobs uses the […]
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs, written by herself using the pseudonym Linda Brent. Linda describes a very powerful and brutal subject of “peculiar institution” that destroys peaceful lives, “slavery”. She also brings other elements and themes like, race, friendship, religion, freedom etc.in the picture. Slavery destroys lives and leaves […]
Abraham Lincoln once said, “if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”. At face value, this statement seems slightly embellished, however, after studying Harriet Jacobs’ novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, it becomes remarkably transparent. Jacobs’ novel works to exploit the dreadful malady that slavery truly was and attempts to offer a […]
Harriet Jacob’s book, ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’ asserts that slavery was a very crucial thing back then, it was very serious, and they had to go through a lot just to protect themselves. Jacob’s supports these claims by explaining what she did to survive and keep safe for so long. This […]
