Chapter Ten: Power on Earth and Chapter Eleven: Almost in Paradise
Term: Legend
Le Ly makes one wish as she sits in the car with Anh and her tour guide. She thinks to herself, "Perhaps one day in the far future, a child on her mother'sarm will ask who these people were--why they died and why they are buried all together. I find myself praying most fervently that the mother, having known war only from distant legends, will be unable to answer. On that day, at last, the spirit of war will no longer hang over my village". This quote shows how long it will take for the spirit of war to actually leave the villages. Everyone is still living in fear as if the war is still going on, and all Le Ly wants is for that to be gone. She wants people to know the war only from legends and unable to answer any questions that are asked about it. She wants her people to live in peace and be happy. I can relate this to past wars that have been fought and how today some are just stories that are told with no real answers. For me, the wars that happened in the past, I simply know from stories and books. I do not live in a place where the spirit of war hangs over my community. Le Ly wishes for her people to live in an environment of peace and not war.
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