Who is the most likely intended audience for unusual normality?
Answer: The most likely audience for the story “Unusual Normality” seems to be the general public, the readers or anyone who comes through this story who have no idea of how lucky they are.
What is unusual normality?
Ishmael Beah comes to New York as a teenager after years of fighting as a child soldier in Sierra Leone and gets a second chance at childhood.
What is the theme of unusual normality?
What is the theme of the story? In your own words tell what this story is about. – The story is about a man who made a contrast between his past where he had to face the war and how it is affecting his present where he has a normal life with a family, study, new clothes, and friends.
Who wrote unusual normality?
Ishmael Beah
What happens to Ishmael’s uncle?
Ishmael has escaped the war only to have the war find him. Uncle Tommy falls ill one night, and there are no pharmacies or hospitals open to take him to. He declines quickly and dies in Ishmael’s arms. Ishmael realizes he must escape the war and the chaos or he’ll be pulled back into soldiering again.
How does Uncle Tommy die?
How does uncle tommy die? Uncle tommy grows sicker and sicker by each passing day and dies of illness. The war triggered his death by making him give up hope and not fight as hard for his life. Also the war made it so there were no doctors in the city or pharmacies open to help him survive.
Who is Talloi?
Talloi. Talloi is with Junior and Beah when they initially go to Mattru Jong to practice with their dance group. After the rebel attacks, Talloi is among the group of six boys that travel together until the siege of Kamator.
What was Ishmael’s answer to the storyteller’s question and why?
None of the children’s answers are considered good enough by the storyteller, but Beah comes up with his own answer and rationale: “if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.” With this statement, Beah ends his memoir.
What bad event did Saidu witness?
Saidu has the most horrific story. The rebels came to his house and raped his three sisters and then took his parents and sisters hostage. During all of this, Saidu happened to be hiding upstairs so the rebels never found him.
What ends up happening to Mambu?
What happens to Mambu and why? Mambu went back to the front lines, because his family wouldn’t take him in. They probably wouldn’t take him in, because the war brainwashed him to be a monster.
How did Saidu die?
In A Long Way Gone, Saidu dies after the boys eat a crow that falls from the sky. Saidu becomes sick, vomiting and fainting.
Who are sheku and Josiah?
Sheku and Josiah are two seven-year-old little boys who are recruited to fight in the army of Sierra Leone along with Ishmael. They’re clearly afraid, but they try their hardest to fight even though they’re too little to even hold up their AK-47s. Mainly because they’re seven.
How old was Ishmael when he was first touched by war?
Ishmael’s story begins when he is ten years old, two years before the civil war comes to his village. He describes the idea of war as entirely abstract to his young mind and insists that he and his fellow villagers didn’t have the capacity to understand what the refugees coming through his village had experienced.
Who is Ishmael’s brother?
Isaac
Why do the boys decide not to return to Mogbwemo after going back to Beah’s grandmother village of Kabati?
Why didn’t the boys return to Mogbwemo after going to Beah’s grandmother’s Kabati village? They realized from what they had seen that it had been corruped and destroyed by the rebels. What did you learn about the relationship between Ishmael and Junior? Junior was very protective of his brother.
What information does the group gain from listening to the rebels?
5. What information does the group gain from listening to the rebels? IS THIS CORRECT? They overhear the rebels boasting of the killings, but there is uncertainty as to whether some villagers may have escaped.
What made Ishmael angry during his interview?
Why was Ishmael so angry to be taken away? He was losing his “family” again. HE did not know why he was being taken. At the base, describe how the boys treated the UNICEF staff.
What was happening to Ishmael’s body?
What was happening to his body? Ishmael’s stomach was hurting, because he was so hungry. It was painful to drink water and he felt cramps in his guts. It felt like something was eating the insides of his stomach.
How does Ishmael lose his humanity?
For Beah, losing his humanity came easy. By the time he was wielding an AK-47 and “killing too many people to count,” he had already lost so much: his brothers, mother, father and grandmother had all been murdered by rebel forces. After fighting for nearly three years Beah was rescued by UNICEF.
What does the medicine Ishmael’s grandfather give him to drink allow him to do?
He connects his encounter with the snake to his grandfather’s medicine allowing him to resist snakebites (which Beah says will not work anymore due to his lack of faith in the medicine), and utilizes his grandfather’s forest lore to bathe himself properly.
How does Ishmael feel when he first picks up an AK-47?
His mind then wanders back to Sierra Leone and his days as a soldier. Ishmael carries an AK-47 on his way to attack a village for their food and ammunition. Ishmael is terrified of both his nightmares and his memories and longs only for daylight so he can return to his new life.
What is Lieutenant jabati reading?
Jabati sees Beah watching him, and the two talk. Jabati is reading Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” while the soldiers watch war movies. Beah is familiar with Shakespeare, and the lieutenant and Beah recite the monologue that begins “Cowards die many times before their deaths” together.
What happens to Saidu on the verandah?
They are fed and given a veranda to sleep on. A woman finds them and tells each of them news of their family. During the night, Saidu dies, and the boys are responsible for honoring his death and burying his body before they begin travelling again, this time in search of their families.
What does the ending of a long way gone mean?
At the very end of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah remembers a story that he first heard around a campfire from Pa Sesay about a monkey and a hunter. As the hunter is about to kill the monkey, the monkey tells him that if the hunter shoots the monkey, the hunter’s mother will die.