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"Have we shown ourselves so unwillingly to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"(Henry 35).

I believe that what Patrick Henry is trying to convey in this passage is the question of "have we really stooped to such a level that we have to hurt and damage other nations in order to prove a point and get what we want/need? I think he is appalled that he even thinks about asking this question as well as I do. He beleives in civil disobedience as opposed to brute and cruel force in order to resolve a problem. I also believe that only the most brilliant of men could figure out a way not to fight a war. As much as I'd rather have and truly believe in civil disobedience, I have a hard time believing that our world has enough trust, compassion, or intelligence to change our way to go about international/national disagreements.

1. How does the variety of images, layout, typography, and narrative voice affect your reading and understanding of the story up to this point.  Select 1-2 specific examples to use in your response.

The pictures in the novel serve a big part in the entire plot of the story. There have been parts in the story where I have made a strong effort to ry picture what Oskar is describing and/or seeing at that particular moment in the story. For instance, when Oskar had said that there was a flock of birds that had appeared outiside of Mr. Black's window, I was wonderting and thinking about exactly what that looked and the following two pages which were pictures of these birds help me to truly understand what that looked like. Probably the best example of this is when Oskar looks through his scrapbook titled Stuff that has happened to me.  Without the following pictures which were about stuff that he really enjoyed or have truly effected him deeply, I wouldn't have understood Oskar nearly as much as I do now.

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I have many complex thoughts. Agreed?