Peace Child 3

The next section of Peace Child that I read was very interesting. First, many of the different tribes in this region keep fighting one another and take other people captive/continue with head hunting. One day the members of one of these tribes sees a boat coming down a nearby river. They were amazed by this (they hadn't seen a big boat before) and saw that there were white people on the boat (which they had also not seen before). They were very scared and tried to come up with a plan of what to do. Eventually they begin to trade with these people for food and weapons that they had never seen before. Meanwhile, there is a  Christian missionary college in Canada, and a missions team is trying to figure out how to take a group of people down to this area to tell these tribes the Gospel. The book briefly goes into detail about the different missionaries that went down there, and I hope it will continue with their journey throughout the rest of the book. A text-to-text connection that I could make with this book would be to Through the Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot. Both books are about unreached tribes, where missionaries go to share the Gospel with the people there. I wonder if the books will have the same sort of ending, or if one will be different than the other.

Peace Child 2

In the next section of Peace Child that I have read, a lot changes in the plot of the book. First of all, the first character we are introduced to (from the Mauro tribe) is Yae. Over a years time, he visits a neighboring tribe known as the Haenam tribe about once each month. Previously, these two tribes and others haven't gotten along well at all, and are often at war. However, when Yae first meets up with Kauwan and other men from the Haenam tribe, they are very friendly to him and become his friends. If their two tribes would become "allies"  and would fight together against other tribes, they could become very powerful together. On one visit though, Yae is eating with his new "friends" and they suddenly attack him. He is killed and their reason for doing so is that they were going to kill him all along, but they were just delaying the attack. One Haenam man said, "We have been fattening you with friendship for the slaughter!" Another quote from the book is, "Kauwan turned away and said simply, 'You should have given me a peace child. Then I would have protected you.' At these words, a vision formed in Yae's mind, a pain-distorted yet tender vision of [his wife] sitting cross-legged by the fire, with the still unnamed baby lying asleep across her lap. The baby! Only that baby could have saved him! But now it was too late." This section of the book I read was about Yae being tricked into who he thought could be his friends. I think that the second quote I provided from my book might foreshadow to a future event in the book.