A LONG WAY GONE: LITERARY ELEMENTS ANALYSIS - ISHMAEL BEAH

IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS - QUOTES AND ANALYSIS

The following quotations are important at various points of the story (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007):

1. “We must strive to be like the moon.”
(pg, 16; When Ishmael asked his grandmother what the old man meant by this quote, she said it was an adage that served to remind people to always be on their best behavior and to be good to others. People complain when there is too much sun and the again when it is too cold. However, no one grumbles when the moon shines, because a lot of happy things happened in the moonlight.

2. “This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.”
(pg. 37; Here Ishmael emphasizes how relationships with other people became corrupted as the result of war.).............



.......... 19. “They had run so far away from the war, only to be caught back in it. There is nowhere to go from here.”
(pg. 207; Ishmael has this thought when war comes to Freetown.)

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