In the story after Wanderer comes upon a scene of a dead soul, a baby soul to boot, she hides and mourns by herself. Jeb comes in to comfort her and tells her that makind is wierd, that we value the individual not the majority. This statement shocked me because it is so true! In terms of racism in our world a lot of people will say-oh im not prejudice or racist against this group, one of my good friends are ...(part of the race or religion that they were accused of not liking). How can you dislike the majority of a people or religion before you even get to know them. And more importantly can you truely be firends with someone that likes you personally but cannot truelly respect what you are or what you believe in. How can you be in love with friends with someone who likes you but despises and maybe even commits hateful acts against others who look like you. Wanderer eventually forgives them for killing the baby soul and continues to love her new friends, understanding that violence and selected friendship is part of human nature; this is the part of humankind that needs to change the most. We need to start loving both the individual and the majority and maybe there would be just a little less hate and violence in the world-as corny as it sounds
What was your reaction to this part of the novel?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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I couldn't believe at first that even though they had Wanderer with them and cared for her that they would continue to murder innocent souls, but then I thought that this was their only way of hope. Believing that there was a way to remove the souls from human bodies was the only thing that kept them going. I was kind of on the fence with this one
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