Island of a Thousand Mirrors
One of the key transitions that drove Saraswathi’s transformation was the loss of her family at the age of sixteen. Amma, her mother, explains, “You have to go from here, my daughter. We can’t keep you with us anymore. You must go to the training camp. Learn to fight. Become a hero” (159). Saraswathi’s environment changed as she was forced to become a Tiger soldier. As Saraswathi loses her parents, she no longer has a role model to look up to. Being young and impressionable, she becomes prone to many different influences—including negative ones. Her life also changed when she accepted the leader of the Tigers as her new role mode. Saraswathi explains, “I learn about our Leader. About how he has devoted his life …show more content…
Saraswathi says, “Even now I am studying for the teachers certification. Next year when I am seventeen, I will take the exams, and one day maybe I will be the village schoolteacher” (130). This quote demonstrates how Saraswathi values were very modest and centered around helping others. She loved to read and wanted to spread her knowledge to students. After Saraswathi moved to the Tiger camp her values change and she becomes a suicide bomber. Saraswathi explains, “He will hide in the crowd far enough away to be safe, and afterward he will take photographs so that the world will see the nature of our vengeance” (213). This quote shows how she transformed from wanting to help people to wanting to harm others. Her values and beliefs of justice were completely transformed after she surpassed the Tiger camp training. The Moral Instinct helps the reader better understand these changes because it explains how changes in her environment rearranged her values and ideas of justice. When she moved away from her friends and family, she no longer believed the same ideas that they promoted. She accepted the new ideas of justice that she was taught at the Tiger camp. In my own life my father believes that the death penalty should be illegal, but I disagree. The Moral Instinct explains that people use moral rationalization to come to conclusions about morals. This helped
One of the key transitions that drove Saraswathi’s transformation was the loss of her family at the age of sixteen. Amma, her mother, explains, “You have to go from here, my daughter. We can’t keep you with us anymore. You must go to the training camp. Learn to fight. Become a hero” (159). Saraswathi’s environment changed as she was forced to become a Tiger soldier. As Saraswathi loses her parents, she no longer has a role model to look up to. Being young and impressionable, she becomes prone to many different influences—including negative ones. Her life also changed when she accepted the leader of the Tigers as her new role mode. Saraswathi explains, “I learn about our Leader. About how he has devoted his life …show more content…
Saraswathi says, “Even now I am studying for the teachers certification. Next year when I am seventeen, I will take the exams, and one day maybe I will be the village schoolteacher” (130). This quote demonstrates how Saraswathi values were very modest and centered around helping others. She loved to read and wanted to spread her knowledge to students. After Saraswathi moved to the Tiger camp her values change and she becomes a suicide bomber. Saraswathi explains, “He will hide in the crowd far enough away to be safe, and afterward he will take photographs so that the world will see the nature of our vengeance” (213). This quote shows how she transformed from wanting to help people to wanting to harm others. Her values and beliefs of justice were completely transformed after she surpassed the Tiger camp training. The Moral Instinct helps the reader better understand these changes because it explains how changes in her environment rearranged her values and ideas of justice. When she moved away from her friends and family, she no longer believed the same ideas that they promoted. She accepted the new ideas of justice that she was taught at the Tiger camp. In my own life my father believes that the death penalty should be illegal, but I disagree. The Moral Instinct explains that people use moral rationalization to come to conclusions about morals. This helped