True or False

Ishmael beah is being said to be lying about his book. There was a man named Lloyd that had read Ishmaels book A Long Way Gone. He had read the part were supposedly Ishmael's parents died by the rebels in a village. This man named Lloyd has found Ishmael's father or so he thinks. When he messages Ishmael's editor the editor seems to ignore the messages then finally tells Lloyd to leave them alone and that they did not wish to here it. He was also asked to keep it quite.

Lloyd decided one day that he wanted the truth to be out so he contacted a television producer in Sydney named Anita Jacoby. Lloyd was hoping that Jocoby would pass the word along and she did.The Australian couldn't Wait to here of these things they were already trying to say he lied about fighting for two excruciating years. They were saying he could only have been in there for a couple months if at all.
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Single Slices of Life

"A Single Slice Reveals Them"

An apple on the table
hides it's seeds
so neatly
under seamless skin

But we talk and talk and talk
to let somebody
in.

By: Naomi Shihab Nie

I think this poem describes Ishmael and his friends because right now they are trying to find themselves yet they are not sure on how to do so. They are starting to get better but are still traumatized by the war. Reliving all the horrible scenes that was once known as their lives. They are hiding so much in themselves and don't know exactly how to get out of a hole that other people put them in. The place that they are living in they have friends to talk to but since they hardly know themselves they don't know what to say. So they waste their breath on hate and violence and that is so difficult to let go. They cling to it like it's all they have because that's all they know anymore. The seeds of life are planted within them, they just need to let them grow.

"Green Snake"

Greed is his game green snake is his name
Reality is never near when this boy has his gear
Eyes are red from to many drugs
Everything just falls apart
Never forget the pain they caused

Sneaking under bushes and covering there tushes
Naked with fear at first
AK 47 strapped to his side during the worst
Kill is what they were told
Evil is among us

Experiences in Africa

My class watched a documentary called God Grew Tired of Us I thought it was a very interesting movie. It took place in Sudan in 1987. The boys in it were named "the lost boys" there were 27,000 of them and they had to flee to Ethiopia, because the government would have killed them if they didn't.

In the movie God Grew Tried of Us and the book A Long Way Gone there are lots of similarities and differences. In the video the people were from the country Sudan and they were called the lost boys. In the book the characters were from the country Sierra Leone and they either were soldiers or rebels.

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"Keeping things Whole"

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

by: Mark Strand

"A Long Way Gone" is about an African boy that grew up in Sierra Leone. He had a good life and thought things were going great until a bunch of rebels showed up. When the rebels came into play the boys life started to go down-hill. First of all they came in and destroyed his village. Then he had to run away with some of his friends, and before they new it they were being clutched up by soldiers and haled away. They were then brain washed to become the perfect soldiers. Even though some weren't even tall enough to hold on to there guns correctly.