A long way home ishmael beah summary
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Jabati is known for reading and quoting Shakespeare, particularly Julius Caesar he is also known as an orater who would lecture and exhort his troops for hours in preparation for future combat. Jabati is Ishmael Beah's commanding officer during his service in the Sierra Leone military. Unfortunately, he once again slips into this coma when the boys find a welcoming village. Saidu is catatonic for a long time, but recovers. Later, Saidu "faints" when three white-clothed figures-whom the boys believe to be ghosts-pass them in the forest one night. Saidu is among the six boys whom Beah encounters following his month of isolation in the forest. The rebels then forced Saidu's parents to pack up and carry their belongings for the rebels depart, taking the sisters with them. Because he is in the attic retreiving rice for his family at the time, Saidu is safe but is forced to hear the sounds of their suffering as the rebels assault them. The next morning, rebels broke into the house and rape his three sisters. He and his family hide under their beds during the night of the attack. Saidu is a Temne boy whose family was unable to leave the village during the rebel attack. Moriba is among the six boys Beah encounters after his month of isolation in the forest. Along with Jumah, Moriba flees into the forest to find their hiding families, but cannot discover their whereabouts. He runs toward teh wharf to find his parents, but cannot locate them. Moriba is a Mende boy whose house was destroyed by an RPG during the RUF attack on his village.
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Jumah is among the six boys Beah encounters after his month of isolation in the forest.
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Along with Moriba, Jumah flees into the forest to find their hiding families, but cannot discover their whereabouts. Jumah is a Mende boy whose house was destroyed by an RPG during the RUF attack on his village. Kanei is among the six boys Beah encounters after his month of isolation in the forest. He follows the other survivors in the hope of locating his parents, whom others tell him have passed through the area. Kanei swam to the other side of the river and witnessed many people drowning in the river whiel the rebels laughed at their suffering. He and his parents escape in a boat, but the boat capsized when rebels threw the passengers into panic by shooting at them. Kanei is a Mende boy who escaped the rebels' attack on his village with his parents, but lost his two sisters and three brothers in the chaos. He remains a close friend of Beah's even as they are rescued together by UNICEF. Alhaji is among the six boys Beah encounters after his month of isolation in the forest. He returned home to find his family, but all he was able to find was an empty house. AlhajiĪlhaji is a Temne boy who was at the river fetching water when the rebels attacked his village. He is among the six boys Beah finds in the forest after his month of isolation. Musa's father ordered him to stay where he was until he could return with his wife as soon as Musa's father returned to the village, the attack grew in intensity and Musa was forced to run. Musa and his father were separated from his mother during the attack. Musa is a Mende boy who was in Mattru Jong when the rebels attacked. Beah is separated from Junior during a rebel attack on Kamator and never sees his older brother again. It is to Junior that Beah looks for reassurance during their trials. Junior is protective of Beah, as he has been for all of the younger boy's life. He speaks at several international conferences on children and war, including one at the United Nations. Beah witnesses and perpetrates numerous atrocities before he is rescued and rehabilitated by UNICEF. At 13, he is forced to become a soldier for the government's army and is ordered to kill rebels - many of whom are boys his own age. His childhood ended, Beah resorts to survivalist tactics to stay alive he steals when he needs to, roams in packs of boys his own age who have been orphaned, and he spends long stretches of time alone in the forest. When Beah is a teenager, he spends a year wandering Sierra Leone on the run from the civil war that claims his family.