It is kind of like he is saying how sin poisoned the world, made it imperfect and allowed "demon thoughts" to pollute. But she refers to how kindness, or love, opens the darkness that had been created. Its explained how pushing each other down only leads to more suffering and hardship for the person pushing. I feel likes she is saying that unconditional love and working together is how she believes humans as a general group will make it to heaven or the "afterlife."The ending may be referring to discovering or being enlightened by a religion or by God, one clan after another being "gifted" with that knowledge, understanding, and love.

CATS. Okay cats want you soul, I am 293% sure. And they never stop being hungry. "that does not satisfy him."

The author continually describes sad, mournful, and disasterous situations throughout his text. There is a pattern: sad story, telling the audience that it DID come to pass, and then connecting it to their own situation through "this can too." The author may have attempted to tell such serious and dramatic stories so that the readers may see that if something so bad and so difficult passed, then my simple problems definitely can.

It is so interesting to think about how many people have read from one copy of a book. So many people have held it like their own and dove into those pages and left their "footprints" in it. It is so cool and it really gives books character.

Many historical events of burning books, such as Nazi Germany burning Jewish religious texts, British burning down the Library of Congress in the war of 1812, and also from the fiction text Fahrenheit 451, just to name a few.

The author gives some imagery and metaphor in order to engage the audience through like interest. By incorporating reference to many different fantasy books and stories, the audience may find themselves reckognizing the stories and comparing their yearning for these stories to that of the boy's.

I think that this sentence gives the readers some perspective of how his home or personal life may be. Most kids would automatically direct their attention to this poster (swimming, bold letters, etc.) I think that including this sentence helped the author demonstrate the mood of this character and the severity of his situation.