After reading this little chapter, the first thing that came into my head was “Wow, this story was boring, crappy, and I didn’t like it at all”. But in a couple of minutes, after thinking about it, I felt sorry for the girl and her best friend. It was sad to see how easily friends could get separated, and how adults are so influenced by what their religion tells them. As kids there’s no real boundary for them; they play with whomever they like, talk with whomever they like.
Quote from somewhere, I saw it on Haaris Mian’s PM once: "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
In the course of the story, there were many objects symbolizing different things. For example, the remote was a symbol of her anger. The riot was the main conflict of the story, which separated the girls, but also created their new language, which was a symbol of their strong friendship.
When I think about the characters in the story, the author somewhat contrasted the adults with the children. Adults had their own world, where danger and religion kept them from talking to others. As children, more ignorant and carefree, they went and found each other, ignoring their parents. Their only main issue was children that they didn’t like. This really got me thinking about some religions and how they say they’re only teaching people to do the world good, yet so many wars and deaths have come out of religion alone.
In conclusion, the chapter was a very interesting read. At first I found it really boring, but after the 2nd time, something really stood out and made me really think about how this relates to our world right now.
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