I've been meaning to make a comment about this part in the book for awhile now, it is the starting of chapter seven when Ishmael is describing the attack on the village he was staying in, Kamator. Did anyone else kind it extremely symbolic that when the rebels came during their prayer, the imam didn't stop for a minute to escape to safety? But rather was captured by them and once he refused to tell them what they wanted they bounded his feet and hands and tied him to a post, setting fire to his body. Not only is that an extremely honourable thing he did, risking his life for the safety of others but it is also a horrible thing to have witnessed on Ishmael's part. How can anyone truly recover after seeing something like that at such young age?
- Courtney Leeder
I beleive that you can't, nothing will let him forget what happened. As for recovery I think that someone who witnessed something like that could only learn to live with it and let time dull the thought of it.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Imam, well heroes are considered villans to the other side and he had been treated as such. It kind of remeinds me of Joan of Arc, she had been captured and burned by the english who considered her to be a witch.
Keagan Jenson
"All is fair in love and war."