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Quote 1: “all the students sat apart from us, as if Mohamed and I were going to snap any minute and kill someone.”
Reflection: This quote displays the reoccurring theme of effect of war on individuals. Throughout the story I talked of more of the emotional effects of war, this quote represents a different effect. At this point in the story Ishmael is no longer as emotionally affected by the war, but the war has caused his daily life to become more difficult. He can't simply make friends because the boys are afraid of him. He is looked at differently because of the war and that is something completely out of his grasp.
Quote 2: “I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that It would no longer have the chance
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