Ishmael says, “I would try desperately to think
about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war
memories had formed a barrier that I had to
break in order to think about my life before
the war” (149). And references this again
later on p.160 claiming he gets flashbacks,
headaches, and nightmares.
• What does he mean by this? Why do you
think he cannot remember before the war?

a long way gone

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

Give example of metaphors and similes