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A LONG WAY GONE: LITERARY ELEMENTS ANALYSIS - ISHMAEL BEAH
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SYMBOLISM / MOTIFS / METAPHORS / IMAGERY / SYMBOLS
Other elements that are present in this novel include symbols, metaphors,
and imagery.
Symbols are the use of some unrelated idea to represent something
else.
Metaphors are direct comparisons made between characters and ideas.
Imagery is the use of figures of speech or vivid description in
writing to produce mental pictures.
There are many of these used by the author such as these METAPHORS:
1. The chapter opens with Ishmael once again fighting a dream.
This time, it isn’t something his mind imagines, but an actual memory
mixed up with his imagination. He is pushing a wheelbarrow with a dead
body in it, and there are other bodies bleeding and dying all around him.
He doesn’t know why he is taking this particular body to the cemetery,
but he pushes on, oblivious to the cries of the dying. The body is wrapped
in a white bed sheet and after Ishmael pulls it to the ground, he begins
to unwrap it, noting that there are bullets all the way from his feet
to his neck. He lifts the cloth and sees his own face. The dream is a
metaphor for his fears for himself............
.............. 10. Ishmael has a different kind of nightmare. This
time, it begins with him and his brother, Junior, swimming at Mattru Jong
and diving for oysters. They race home with the oysters, but there is
no one there. When he turns to ask Junior what’s going on, Junior has
disappeared as well. Then, he is suddenly......... .
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