No Rules, No Regrets.

Since your reading this blog post, I think i should inform you that I just started reading this AWESOME book and I'm super excited to be writing a blog post about it ! ** possible spoilers **

So, I just started reading this perfect book called The Mission by Jason Myers yesterday and I love it. I know I say this about a lot of books, but from the first page I didn't want to stop reading in project real. So far what's going on is the main characters is talking about their past and his relations with his family. Ever since I read Romeo and Juliet I try to find a way every book I read relates to it. In The Mission they have the same relationship Issues with their parents, their completely distant. In the book, the main character Kaden says  "Much to the dismay of my dad. The only time I've ever met him was at a reading he did in Minneapolis for his second book. He nodded and said what's up to me, and then spent the next hour talking to my mom over a cup of coffee." In this book so far, it seems that the parents are basically just background characters. Somebody either talks about them for a short while, or they have a small conversation with some one.  I think its a symbol to show how distant kids put their parents from them.

I've saw movies about people going to war, heard family stories, and even read books about it. But in this book it goes so deep into detail about the extreme anguish and distress of a person in battle. the main characters brother, Kenny went to war and he wrote letters to Kaden and he wrote this one amazing letter to his brother about how its going where he is and he puts so much detail and emotion into his letter, not knowing it was his last.  Kaden keeps this letter with him and reads it whenever he wants to think about Kenny, and in the letter he told of so many sickening things that would deaden a persons soul.

In his letter he said "the only thing we know is thats its becoming increasingly more difficult to figure out who the enemy really is. A group of insurgents who arrives here to fight the Jihad from one of the neighborhood countries? Or members of a family who seek revenge on the soldiers who've turned their relatives into collateral damage, destroyed their neighborhoods, driven their people out of the area, and turned their country into a lawless melting pot of religious ideology and horrific street justice more brutal than you are ever shown on the screens of the televisions at home. I've seen decapitated bodies slung from buildings while entering certain neighborhoods. Children missing hands and eyes. Or a baby, man... I saw the body of this baby girl who couldn't have been more than three years old in a trash can in this house. Her throat had been slit and intestines pulled through her stomach. The rest of her family was found stacked together in a pile in the living room with all their throats cut too." Reading this perturbed me completely, I sat their reading this in disbelief that people can be so mindless and hateful to do things as gruesome as what he mentions in his letter. It seems to me that The people in war are basically being turned into zombies where they are, from seeing and experiencing all this violence. Like I had mentioned before this things blacken a persons soul , and prevent them from ever unseeing what hey had saw and staying with them forever.

It disturbs me to realize how mean and inhuman people can be to one another under the disguise of war. Also how governments and armies don't take into consideration the consequences of these wars and how they are affecting innocent people. I don't understand how we are helping out there when we were just as bad as any of those iraqis. They might be killing our soldiers but we are over there capturing families, shooting up neighborhoods, and attacking adults in front of their children. He spoke about soldiers hog tying people up in front of their children. What example are we showing these children other than violence is the only way to solve our problems? how are we helping in any way? Humans are supposed to be the smartest species on the planet, yet for as smart as we are we still cant come up with a way to resolve our differences without killing one another.