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Literature Essay:
TWO DIFFERENT BOOKS:
- Ishmael Beal’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier [Sierra Leone]
- Mitali Perkins, Bamboo People,
- 2-3 Pages
- Only use of book references
- Creative title
- Paper Details: Topic and 3 points to choose from – See below for additional information
- Study Packs: You must understand both novels. Study packs provided for each novel which you will need to incorporate within the essay – See below for additional information
- Books: If you need a copies of the book, please add use and I can send a PDF
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Paper Details:
- 3 POINTS to build off of the TOPIC provided
Topic: Beah and Perkins use different narrative strategies to structure their stories. Beah has a single narrator; Perkins uses two narrators–one from each side of the conflict who are brought together by the war. What is gained and what is lost by each of the strategies? Is one strategy more effective than the other? (2-4 pages)
Possible points of departure:
1. Beah’s story covers a longer time frame–potentially 3 years of combat, and ending then when he has been adopted by an American mother and is in school. Obviously he cannot (and does not) tell us everything that happened. The narrative is selective in the events that are related. Beah also moves at times back and forth between the three worlds–his dreams, the experiences of his new life, the memories that are triggered when he is living his new life. Occasionally at least we as readers have to sort these out–he does not use a different type font or spacing to separate out the three types of experiences. Does that strategy enhance the telling of the story? Does it make it more interesting? Harder to read? Why might he use such a structure?
2. Perkins uses two narrators, roughly dividing the book in half. The first half is the story of Chiko who is kidnaped/impressed into the Burmese army and sent off to war. The second half is the story of Tu Reh, a Karenni boy who is defending his people from the Burmese army. The two come together after Chiko is seriously injured by a land mine. Against his instincts, Tu Reh brings Chiko to a village where he is treated medically. Chiko is restored to his family. Both boys struggle with what is the “right” thing to do–right by their people and family, right by the large moral issues that the conflict raises.
3. Do both writers seem to have similar goals in writing the novels? If so, what are they? If not, how do they differ? Can you define what each writer’s goal might have been? Does that goal or intention explain anything about the narrative structure of the novels.
Study packs:
Study Pack for Ishmael Beal’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier [Sierra Leone]*
1. Map of Sierra Leone
2. Overview of the conflict (“Chronology,” pp. 219-26 in the text)+
3. Series of videos on YouTube
a. “The Drugged-Up Child Soldiers at The Centre of Sierra Leone’s War” (26.12 min)
b. Interview: “Ishmael Beah — Child Soldier” (9:45 min)
c. “Ishmael Beah: Stories As Medicine” (13:02 min)*
4. A Long Way Gone: Structure of the Novel+5. int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/youth-violence”>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/y… (WHO document)What is the impact of violence, drugs, and peer pressure on American male teenagers?
Study Pack for Mitali Perkins, Bamboo People[Myanmar, formerly Burma]*
1. Maps of Myanmar and Burma+
2. Rambo (Film, 2008). Fictionally set in
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