When Ishmael is very close to seeing his family again, circumstances keep this from happening. However, seeing his family would probably have ensured his death. Do you believe in fate? Do you think this was meant to be?
Ishmael also says that seeing his family would have been worth dieing for. What do you think? Would you agree? What would your choice have been?
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Everyone talks about how everything happens for a reason, but I really don't think it works like that. From personal experience I think that bad thingsjust happen to the wrong people, and that the innocent always suffer in some way. It bothers me to know end but it seems as though the people really at fault never get faulted. They are the ones that thrive because getting by has become a game. Especially in this story's setting if you ask me. It's a game of chance.
ReplyDeleteYou spelled "dying" wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think it was kind of, possibly, maybe fate that Ismael didn't get to see his family. If he would've seen them, he wouldn't have been a part of the war, and he wouldn't have this story to tell. Also, since Ismael didn't get to see his family, he had a motivation for the war. If he was with his parents and was taken away from thwm to fight in the war, he would have had to drive to fight and probably would've died right awway.
If my family had been away for that long of a period, and I had seen what Ishamel saw, it almost would've been better off dying. You can be with your family, and you don't have to bear the pain of not knowing what has happened to them. Yes, maybe something big might've happened if Ishamel had died that would've happened to him, but that's the way it would work.
ReplyDeleteJust seeing my family wouldn't be worth dying for. I'd rather live to have a family of my own. It might of been fate that Ishmael is distracted by the one guy who doesn't have a family.
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