What reflections and connections can you make with this novel?
While reading this book I could feel myself and my own faith growing and advancing along with it. It seems in the short time we've spent reading and analyzing this book I've grown a little bit more and have begun to understand more of me and a part of myself. It was a really wierd feeling and I felt kind of proud I guess you could say, but it defniately was a great feeling.
Much like the Sawi, I think I carried a sort of darkness in my heart. Hatred, revenge, feelings that are quite ugly and a burden to carry around. More or less I guess I could understand how the Sawi regarded revenge as a priority and stuff like that. But then the moment of darkness passed and then the Sawi and I were brought forth to God and just as they started to reveal and wash away their sins to God I could feel myself open and let go. As wierd as it sounds reading the book was kind of like my own little get back in touch thing with God and I could feel myself slowly letting go of the bad things.