Blog Post #5

In my essay, I am exploring the whole idea of isolation within A long Way Gone, and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Thesis: Within Along Way Gone, and The Diary of Anne Frank both of the protagonists have people around them to talk too. They still choose to isolate themselves from the people and the world around them.

I am exploring why each of them hide their innocence to look stronger. I am also exploring both of these memories help show how the youth of America isolates themselves from each other.

I am using an article about iPod isolation that I found from CNN.com. I am also using some facts about cell phone use from Tmobile.com. Also using some sales quotes from Apple.com. I chose to use the Internet, because it was the most convenient place to find information.

"In the year 2008, apple sold an estimated 151million iPods in the United States. Where in the UK, only an estimated 22million iPods were sold." I bet you are wondering why I would choose this for the whole connection. Because it shows how much more Americans spend on objects that help further their isolation. Just the same way that the two characters use objects to isolation themselves. Beah uses the music that he would preform to before the war. He still had a part of his youth that valued human life. But once it was destroyed, he lost all value of his old self. With Anne, her diary was the object that forwarded her isolation. She started off the story as a young innocent girl, who thought that the world could not harm her. But as the story continues, and she goes into hiding, he becomes isolated not only physically within the attic, but also mentally within her mind. She could not be a little girl within the confines of the attic. The people she was with would make her feel bad about running around, or laughing, or anything childlike in their eyes. The only person that really understood was her diary. It helped to conceal her innocence.