There is a God, and the man is his prophet.

In this book I feel there is a constant turning of the tide. One moment the man is in danger of death, but then suddenly the boy is sick . They are starving,yet they find food. The man calls on God then the next moment he curses him. There is a push and pull, a love and hate, a calmness in the calamity. The man worships the boy, and sees him as evidence of truth and light. I felt it was only fitting that in the end the boy would revere the father in the same light. When the book says, " He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn't forget." I feel this was because the man was his best example of a faith driven individual. The man never gave up, he kept on with the struggles at hand, and then when death was overtaking him, and he could no longer care for the boy he had faith that, " Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again." The boy was a witness that his father's faith, produced a miracle. He was found by other good people.