Showing posts with label a long way gone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a long way gone. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Rock steady crew

the difference between 1970s rap/hip hop is that its more smooth then today's. Today's music has more instraments an rymes to it.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Memories of a boy soldier




I read that Ishmael Beah was in Manhattan New York. After the publishing of A Long Way Gone he still regrets what he had done in Sierra Leon. He has nightmares about what had happened there. Ishmael had graduated high school in United States and went to collage at Oberlin University in Ohio. He was studying for a masters degree in fine arts. He graduated high school in United

Friday, January 8, 2010

A Single Slice Reveals Them by Naomi ShiHab-nye

A Single Slice Reveals Them
by; Naomi Shihab-Nye

An apple on the table
hides its seeds
so neatly
under seamless skin.

But we talk and talk and talk
to let somebody
in

Ishmael is hiding what he wants instead of war and only knowing violence. He wants to be the way he was before the war and have his friends and family back. He is at this camp where the nurses want to help him get back to normal. He needs to sit down and let out all of the memories of the war and to let out the hate that he has built inside of him. Its going to take time for him to get him back to normal. Ishmael needs someone that has allot of patience.