Character Analysis: A Long Way Gone

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Julius Caesar Essay Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help …show more content…

In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony is speaking at Julius Caesar’s wedding when he shows the people Caesar’s dead body. Antony showed Julius Caesar’s dead body because he wanted the people to have sympathy for their leader who was killed by some of the people who he had trusted the most. As a result, the people realized that Julius Caesar did care about them and not just about himself. In ways the two book were very similar. For example, Julius Caesar was about war and being on either Antony’s side or Cassius/Brutus’s side. In addition, A Long Way Gone was about the civil war that was going on in Sierra Leone. Ishmael had to survive on his own and bear the thoughts of the violence that he had witnessed and been apart of. Consequently, both of these books were tragic events. Also, both of these books present a similar way in how events occur. For example, in a Long Way Gone, Ishmael was just a normal person living in a village being protected by the soldiers. In Julius Caesar, Julius was a dictator who had a meeting with the senate. At both of these points in the book they both risked their lives. For Ishmael, this was the point when he turned into a killing machine, and for Julius this was

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