Escape From Spider Head Analysis

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I believe the most important rebel, exile, or outcast is Jeff from “Escape from Spider head”. I saw myself in Jeff. I saw him trying to make the right choice and trying to save the right people. No one deserves to die when they are not given the right choice. I remember in my story when I was transported into the body of the young Indian boy. The young boy’s father was persuading the boy to kill the men and get revenge for the while soldiers taking my voice away. I knew deep down that it was not a right thing to do. Before I was in that young Indian boy’s body, I was angry at the world and what it not done for me. After time travelling into different bodies, I learned that revenge is not worth. In my story, I was in the bank in Downtown Seattle thinking is killing all these innocent white people, am I going to feel powerful. While I was in the body of the young Indian boy, although a white soldier …show more content…
Even if I didn’t like the person very much, even if I hated the person, I still wouldn’t want to do it”. I believe this was very honorable of Jeff because innocent do not deserve to die even if you truly hated the person. After Jeff witness Heather dying in front of his eyes, he did not know what to do. Jeff stated, “Every human is born of man and woman. Every human, at birth, is, or at least has the potential to be, beloved of his/her mother/father. Thus, every human is worthy of love. As I watched Heather suffer, a great tenderness suffused my body, a tenderness hard to distinguish from a sort of vast existential nausea”. Jeff felt what I felt when I was in the body of the young Indian boy, no one deserves to die. Jeff felt sick as he saw Heather die. When I was in the body of the young Indian boy, I felt the same sickening feeling. The young solider my Indian father told me to kill was also a young boy too but he appeared to be no older than seventeen. He did not deserve to

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