Part 2: Long Way Gone sequel

I have been reading the book a Long Way gone since my last blogpost and it's turning out to be a really good book overall. The book has a very interesting and long full-filled journey since the start of the war that goes on in the story. It seems almost like a story even though it's a  real story, at times when the main character Ishmael is about to reach his family or a safe place it ends up being just another run-in with the rebels that were attacking them in the first place or just having to fight with people who don't trust people of their own kind. I noticed that this is a huge theme in itself. People wouldn't be so scared if there was more trust around and a lot more things also.

In my first body paragraph I'm going to talk about how there is a lot of distrust in the book. I've noticed that in the book ever since the war has started there has been a great amount of distrust that goes on throughout the book, and there's an obvious reason for that. The war has been the main reason for this distrust mainly for the fact that people have been so overprotective of themselves that they seem to regret that they were once good friends with the same people. Ever since the war started people became more protective of their things and only close family. They started to keep all the food that they had and all the items that are valuable safe to themselves. This leads to greed because greed is a result for being overprotective. People want to keep all the food to themselves and they forget that they were once a giving community that helped each other in need, but now it's all gone. All because of the seperation that the war causes in the story.

Secondly, trust has been the whole planning behind the war and outbreak. When people don't feel right with something, or they don't enjoy the way the government is controlling them, what do they do? People usually tend to act out as a result of discontent. This is exactly what rebels are doing I mean it's not good in the way they're trying to make people join their side by recruiting people with violence. They use violence and threaten people which is no way to treat people. The rebels obviously saw that they couldn't trust their own government so they decided to take matters in their own hands. It was their way of showing distrust to the government. Trust is obviously a big issue in the story.

In conclusion, trust is the underlying theme in the whole book, it's the central the theme that controls most of the parts of the book. Without this theme there wouldn't have been so many problems. I hope to see continuously how this theme evolves in the story.

A Long Way Gone: Archetypal Journey

I am currently reading the book a Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. I would have to say that this book is very good for the perfectly described images that it would make it real, as if you were in the same place as the character in the story. In the book there is a war that takes place,and it arrives in Sierra Leone, where our main character lies (the author). The book is about his escape and long journey of his survival during the war. I've noticed the many impacts that this journey has had on his life.

So far not many positive things has happened to him, he's just a refugee in war zone. I would say that positive people have impacted his life. The fact that along the way Ishmael gets to meet  friends from his hometown is a reward anybody would want. Ishmael describes the torture of walking by himself. He says that it's the loneliness that kills him, loneliness makes people go crazy and Ishmael starts to show signs. Ishmael really needed friends, especially it's for the fact that it's dangerous to travel alone, people don't trust anyone anymore so they'll kill anybody unfamiliar. With company Ishmael becomes less worried and less stress from having to be alert for himself. Companions are the make up of  50 percent of his family he misses, since everyone is close in his family.

Negative events would obviously have to be the war that is currently going on in the story because of the fact that it causes so much destruction in the book. First of all it causes seperation, Ishmael gets seperated from his family in the beginning of the story. It's why he started going a bit crazy and why he's so depressed and his brother in the book. The war lost most of his family and has completely ruined a young mind with images and dreams of killings that he witnessed. At such a young age it's hard to see how someone else of similar age could go through this.  His mind is being literally dumped with memories of the war, and it's not erasable.

I'm not done with the book but later on I hope to see the character on a more positive track,which doesn't seem to be going on a positive track anytime soon. I learned to always appreciate family because without them it's hard. Unfamiliar faces just makes problems worse when you really need help. Family is always there and just appreciate them at all times no matter how annoyed you may seem to be because of them. Appreciate everything going well for you all of a sudden like Ishmael it can come to an end.

Sharp Objects: Themes to start tracking in the book

I have just started the book Sharp Objects, which definitely seems to be a book of mystery. Well obviously it must be since the book is about a journalist who is asked to track down a story of two teen murders, in another place. This is all in desperation, because the main character who was asked to go on the trip was made because the competition between other newspaper businesses. I'm starting to track down themes that could have major effects on the book in general.

The first theme that i clearly notice is desperation, from the beginning of the book I could obviously tell that this book would have a lot of desperation involved in it. The tone was a very rushed and hurry tone because in the beginning of the book the main characters boss is talking to her about the competition that is going on between the other newspaper companies. So he makes her go on a trip to some unknown place and track a murder down to get the full story. It obviously is a very dangerous task to do especially if you have no protection. I know in real life journalists do thing like this, but it' with other people sometimes, yet it's still dangerous to do in real life. It just shows how far someone will go when they're desperate to do something. I hope this them becomes more apparent along the way,and shows the consequences of desperation when it gets out of control.

Another noticeable theme in the book is theme of mystery like associated with killing, it seems that whole book will have a scary and mysterious touch to it that will mostly be coming from the murder scene that the journalist is trying to investigate in the book. Which is pretty much obvious for any book to contain a mystery in murders. I will be tracking how the mystery in the book decides what the character will do defensively, since I think that it will be an act of defense when she is scared by the mystery going on the book. So far the character feels no regret or nervousness in going to some foreign place for a murder.Which is quite odd, I would be very scared to face a murder. I guess me as the reader forsees all of the tension that this myster seems to be building up which will all explode in the face of the main chrarcter in the climax to the end of the book.

In conclusion, these were the two main themes that I found in the book that seemed worth while tracking down for their relation to characters. I hope to see more interactions as the book goes on.