The text makes me think a lot about humanity. After reading the book it makes me stop and think about human nature. Why do we change to our environment? What makes us adjust? Beah tales us that the human journey can be difficult but rewarding at the end. We can use A Long Way Gone for example. Beah went on this long journey and went through pain and suffering, but at the end he is happy to be alive and able to tell his story. From Beah's work I can apply this to myself. That the journey may be long and hard, but at the end you can come out on top.
Why do we as humans change when we have to?
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Claims and Thesis
Claim
The claim I'm making making is foster kids are taking away from their family and put in a new environment.
Beah was placed in a new environment and had to adjust.
Thesis
A foster child is a child taking away by the state and placed in the foster care system.
Beah was separated from his family and placed in a syste similar to a group home.
Questions I'm Exploring
Why are kids taking from their families?
How does the foster care system relate to Beah's journey?
What effects does this have on the child later in life?
Academic Articles
I'm using an article of foster kids when they become adults. This article is saying that when foster kids are adults, they are psychologically messed up. They can't get good jobs. They end up in and out of jail, and they have to depend on welfare.
The claim I'm making making is foster kids are taking away from their family and put in a new environment.
Beah was placed in a new environment and had to adjust.
Thesis
A foster child is a child taking away by the state and placed in the foster care system.
Beah was separated from his family and placed in a syste similar to a group home.
Questions I'm Exploring
Why are kids taking from their families?
How does the foster care system relate to Beah's journey?
What effects does this have on the child later in life?
Academic Articles
I'm using an article of foster kids when they become adults. This article is saying that when foster kids are adults, they are psychologically messed up. They can't get good jobs. They end up in and out of jail, and they have to depend on welfare.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Renaming Chapters
Chapter 16 Beah's New Nurse
Beah meets this Nurse that wraps his hand for him. She wants to make a connection with Beah. Beah is fighting it. He doesn't want any new friends. He doesn't like her asking questions about him. Beah treats her like she is his enemy.
Chapter 17 Nurse Gives Beah A Cassette Player
The nurse gave Beah a cassette player along with a tape. The tape was Run DMC. Beah was very excited to receive this gift. No one had gave him anything since his parents use to. He would go and visit her everyday.
Chapter 18 Beah's Uncle Tommy
They couldn't find Beah's family. Beah told them that he had a Uncle Tommy. They found Beah's Uncle Tommy and he took Beah away from the center. Beah now was with some members of his family. Beah was sad to leave his friends that he fought with and went on the journey with.
Chapter 19 Beah Is Picked To Go To The UN
Beah is picked to go to the UN to talk to the kids about what happened in the war. He is on the verge of leaving the family that he just reconnected with. He thought this would be a good opportunity to speak on his journey.
Beah meets this Nurse that wraps his hand for him. She wants to make a connection with Beah. Beah is fighting it. He doesn't want any new friends. He doesn't like her asking questions about him. Beah treats her like she is his enemy.
Chapter 17 Nurse Gives Beah A Cassette Player
The nurse gave Beah a cassette player along with a tape. The tape was Run DMC. Beah was very excited to receive this gift. No one had gave him anything since his parents use to. He would go and visit her everyday.
Chapter 18 Beah's Uncle Tommy
They couldn't find Beah's family. Beah told them that he had a Uncle Tommy. They found Beah's Uncle Tommy and he took Beah away from the center. Beah now was with some members of his family. Beah was sad to leave his friends that he fought with and went on the journey with.
Chapter 19 Beah Is Picked To Go To The UN
Beah is picked to go to the UN to talk to the kids about what happened in the war. He is on the verge of leaving the family that he just reconnected with. He thought this would be a good opportunity to speak on his journey.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Beah's Journey Through The War
During the war Beah is beginning to change mentally. He joins the army to help protect the village. When he joins the army he into a killing machine. He kills every rebel he can. This is a different culture that Beah has never experienced. Beah even cut one of the rebels throat who was a prisoner, and didn't care at all.
Beah forgets about the Innocent twelve year old he use to be. He has a "loss of culture." I say this because he is not acting like he use to when he lived with his family. He has to make this change for survivor. If he had stayed, that same twelve year old from his home village would have been dead. Beah had to become a man at an early age. He knew how to use a gun. He would smoke marijuana and take cocaine. He became a young soldiers.
When I think of Beah being forced to change his culture and move to a place he doesn't want to be, I think about foster kids. They have homes with someone and are taking away and put in group homes with other kids. They are there with people that don't really like them. They feel like they are in prison, but it's nothing they can do to get out until there eighteen.
Beah forgets about the Innocent twelve year old he use to be. He has a "loss of culture." I say this because he is not acting like he use to when he lived with his family. He has to make this change for survivor. If he had stayed, that same twelve year old from his home village would have been dead. Beah had to become a man at an early age. He knew how to use a gun. He would smoke marijuana and take cocaine. He became a young soldiers.
When I think of Beah being forced to change his culture and move to a place he doesn't want to be, I think about foster kids. They have homes with someone and are taking away and put in group homes with other kids. They are there with people that don't really like them. They feel like they are in prison, but it's nothing they can do to get out until there eighteen.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Transformation Of Beah's Escape
In order to get to the escape route, we had to cross a wet and muddy swamp that was adjacent to a tiny hill. In the swamp we ran past people who were stuck in the mud, past handicapped people who couldn't be helped, for anyone who stopped to do so was risking his own life.
This was the first time that Beah, his friends, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and his brother Junior encountered trouble and had to escape. They were trying to escape the Mattru Jong. As they went throught the swamp they would see people that were stuck in the mud. They would encounter handicapped people that were helpless. All they could do was keep moving or help the people and be killed by the rebels.
At the river they made us kneel and put our hands behind our heads. Suddenly loud gunshots not far away from the villiage were heard.
In this event Beah barely escapes death. Beah, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and Junior went back to Mattru Jong. The rebels captured all of them. The rebels made each one of them line up so they could look each one in a eye to see who was scared. They made two separate lines. The rebels wanted to recruit the boys in one of the lines. The other line would be executed by the new recruits. Beah's brother Junior was one of the recruits who had to kill the other line which included beah. At the river they had to get on there knees and put there hands behind there head. As they were doing this gunshots went off and everyone scattered.
The sad thing about all that hard labor was that, in the end, it all went to ruin, because the rebels did eventually come and everyone ran away, leaving their farms to be covered by weeds and devoured by animals.
Beah and his friends went to the village on Kamator. In this villiage they were finally content. They had food to eat and things to do. They learned how to farm and cut down trees. They would go swimming everyday on there breaks. Everything was perfect again intil finally the rebels came again. They had to leave everything behind. Beah separated from his friends and his brother Junior who he would never see again.
This was the first time that Beah, his friends, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and his brother Junior encountered trouble and had to escape. They were trying to escape the Mattru Jong. As they went throught the swamp they would see people that were stuck in the mud. They would encounter handicapped people that were helpless. All they could do was keep moving or help the people and be killed by the rebels.
At the river they made us kneel and put our hands behind our heads. Suddenly loud gunshots not far away from the villiage were heard.
In this event Beah barely escapes death. Beah, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and Junior went back to Mattru Jong. The rebels captured all of them. The rebels made each one of them line up so they could look each one in a eye to see who was scared. They made two separate lines. The rebels wanted to recruit the boys in one of the lines. The other line would be executed by the new recruits. Beah's brother Junior was one of the recruits who had to kill the other line which included beah. At the river they had to get on there knees and put there hands behind there head. As they were doing this gunshots went off and everyone scattered.
The sad thing about all that hard labor was that, in the end, it all went to ruin, because the rebels did eventually come and everyone ran away, leaving their farms to be covered by weeds and devoured by animals.
Beah and his friends went to the village on Kamator. In this villiage they were finally content. They had food to eat and things to do. They learned how to farm and cut down trees. They would go swimming everyday on there breaks. Everything was perfect again intil finally the rebels came again. They had to leave everything behind. Beah separated from his friends and his brother Junior who he would never see again.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Word Mash: Essay 1
Word Mash: Essay 1
Silly Homeschool Gamble Anxious
Expressive Childish Mistakes Prom
Actor Car Roseland Graduation
Grades Job Creative Lazy
Athletic Highschool Movies Parties
Charming College Hollywood Burden
Lockup Police Demote
Modeling Counselor Dropout
There was this actor in hollywood who was very charming. It was amazing how he overcame his life. He was just a burden to his parents before he went to hollywood. All he did was make mistakes in his life. He went to these wild parties everynight with his friends. His parents would have to come get him from lockup the next day at the police station everytime, because he had been drunk and fighting the night before. He had the worst grades in the whole school, because he didn't do any work at all. He was finally demoted and decided to dropout.
He went to a counselor one day and ask for some advice. The counselor said you are very talented and creative. He told him one day you will be an actor. The boy didn't think this was true because he was so in love with modeling. One day at a photoshoot this famous producer told him you would be perfect for this movie im producing. He did the movie and became a hollywood star and never looked back.
Silly Homeschool Gamble Anxious
Expressive Childish Mistakes Prom
Actor Car Roseland Graduation
Grades Job Creative Lazy
Athletic Highschool Movies Parties
Charming College Hollywood Burden
Lockup Police Demote
Modeling Counselor Dropout
There was this actor in hollywood who was very charming. It was amazing how he overcame his life. He was just a burden to his parents before he went to hollywood. All he did was make mistakes in his life. He went to these wild parties everynight with his friends. His parents would have to come get him from lockup the next day at the police station everytime, because he had been drunk and fighting the night before. He had the worst grades in the whole school, because he didn't do any work at all. He was finally demoted and decided to dropout.
He went to a counselor one day and ask for some advice. The counselor said you are very talented and creative. He told him one day you will be an actor. The boy didn't think this was true because he was so in love with modeling. One day at a photoshoot this famous producer told him you would be perfect for this movie im producing. He did the movie and became a hollywood star and never looked back.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Escape
We whispered to the boy, "Drop the bag and hurry. The rebels are coming.
Six of them were trying to escape by crawling over dead bodies. As they were crawling something fell out of someones pocket and fell onto an aluminum pan. The rebels started to point there gun towards them. One boy from the town carried a big bag of things he had gathered from his house. The rebels saw him and opened fire. We whispered to the boy, "Drop the bag and hurry. The rebels are coming. The boy didn't want to leave that bag. He didn't make it to the first crowed village.
The boy in this story must have had some items in the bag that had sentimental value to him. He really didn't want to leave that bag even if it meant him being killed. The boy knew that he may never see some of those items again. Human nature in a regular situation would be for us to drop the bag and take of running. It said that the boy didn' t listen when they told him to drop the bag.
Nobody would listen in a situation like that because that could be the last piece of memories they might have of there love ones. This is telling us that the boy had a choice. He could be killed or have memories. We don't know if he survived or lived, but we know he didn't make it to the village.
Six of them were trying to escape by crawling over dead bodies. As they were crawling something fell out of someones pocket and fell onto an aluminum pan. The rebels started to point there gun towards them. One boy from the town carried a big bag of things he had gathered from his house. The rebels saw him and opened fire. We whispered to the boy, "Drop the bag and hurry. The rebels are coming. The boy didn't want to leave that bag. He didn't make it to the first crowed village.
The boy in this story must have had some items in the bag that had sentimental value to him. He really didn't want to leave that bag even if it meant him being killed. The boy knew that he may never see some of those items again. Human nature in a regular situation would be for us to drop the bag and take of running. It said that the boy didn' t listen when they told him to drop the bag.
Nobody would listen in a situation like that because that could be the last piece of memories they might have of there love ones. This is telling us that the boy had a choice. He could be killed or have memories. We don't know if he survived or lived, but we know he didn't make it to the village.
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