A LONG WAY GONE: LITERARY ELEMENTS ANALYSIS - ISHMAEL BEAH

SYMBOLISM / MOTIFS / METAPHORS / IMAGERY / SYMBOLS

These are examples of SYMBOLISM:

1. The physical presence of people and their spirits symbolize the life of a town for Ishmael.........



........... 8. In the Embassy compound in Guinea, beside Ishmael sits a mother whispering a story to her children, and Ishmael falls asleep with the memory of the stories his.........

These are examples of IMAGERY:

1. This van is followed by a continuous stream of wounded, crying people, including a woman who carries her dead baby on her back. They child had been shot dead as she fled from the rebels. The woman stops and rocks her baby, in too much shock to even weep. The baby’s body has so many bullets that they are protruding from its body and it is clear to Ishmael, by the eyes of the baby, that all has been lost............

.............9. It is as if the forest has taken on a life of its own, as if it has trapped the injured souls that have departed from the dead. The branches of the trees.........

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