I thought that these chapters were especially good for some reason. I don’t know why but they do. It seems like they have more emotion in them, and help us find out who he really is.
When I was reading about them burning the imam, I felt really bad, because it’s just like this guy was killed while trying to give a prayer, which just seems wrong. I know people tried to warn him the rebels were coming and that he just ignored them, but he had a right to finish his prayer. I mean to him it must have seemed disrespectful to the gods to leave without finishing a prayer, and when he didn’t tell them where the people were hiding, I found that very respectful. Like he risked his own life in order to protect his people, just to like have some hope that they would survive, even though most of them probably won’t or wouldn’t have.
Then when he encountered those people at the river, it was eye opening to me, because they didn’t trust a 12 year old boy, I mean I know that that age was the main age that was being recruited into being rebels, but he really didn’t have much on him, couldn’t they have tried to help him out a bit more, because at that point he didn’t have a gun or anything to make him seem dangerous.
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I agree with the imam, he was like a character in a cartoon that I watch who risks his life that "his people" may have the chance to live. I think this is also like Jesus in the Bible. Even though the imam was Muslim, he took on a "savior" attitude and saved his fellow worshippers. It is amazing how distrustful humans can be sometimes! Even though I do not believe in Evolution, I believe that humans may have traces of an "animal" instinct to run from danger. My mom read a book where the author talked about how when we enter a clearing, our hair raises and we look around for danger, we very suspicious people! ( :
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