Monday, December 2, 2013

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.

1 comment:

  1. You did a very good job of explaing the chapter in the book. You also picked very good quotes that describe the summary of the chapter. I liked how there was a little twist in the story, that "even the baby could have saved him." Even I can't wait to find out what happens next!

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