Answers Common Core ELA 10-CR Memoir:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahQuestion 7

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Memoir:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Question 7 • Common Core ELA 10-CR

What is Beah’s purpose in writing A Long Way Gone?

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to discuss whether the RUF or the government militias did the most damage

B

to shame Sierra Leone into apologizing for the war

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to tell the story of the half a million refugees who fled Sierra Leone

D

to tell the story of how a child was made into a soldier

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