Merchant Of Death

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Human or Not
Step into the scene of "The Merchant of Death" with D.J. Machale and learn how the travelers try to save halla and how some of their actions made them out of this world. This brought up a debate if whether or not they were human by explaining from the people he was surrounded with, his actions, and the things that meant something to him.
Entering into the scene we saw the evil traveler named Saint Dane do some weird and unsolved actions that wouldn't be classified as human. Back at the subway station we saw Bobby Pendragon encounter the evil traveler where he was afraid because Saint Dane was disguised as a cop as him and his uncle Press were exploring into the abandoned subway station. One weird action that happened here was when
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Because when a wave of emotions hit Bobby we always notice him saying things about going home. Looking at Bobby we could tell that his home was his last plan or a place he wants to be during times of troubles and throughout the book he was pretty much home sick which makes him look human because he misses the things back at his place such as his family and other belongings. Even one of the travelers named Loor said "How can someone be trusted who only thinks of himself? From the moment you arrived, you always have plotted to get away. It did not matter how much the Milago needed help. It was always about getting home" (Machale 156). Bobby also said from the moment he arrived at Denduron "But this wasn't home" (Machale 75). When he was back at the Milago huts he said "It wasn't big, maybe the size of my living room back home"(Machale 76). When Bobby wrote his journal he said about going home in a different way "And that was to get to the flume and get out of here" (Machale 136). We could tell that Bobby loved being around his home. For example when us students don't want to go to school in a day that we don't feel like it some of us or a handful of us would rather stay at home rather than learning because we grow some feelings inside that home and loved the people living in that home. As a matter of fact we could say that Bobby's relationship to his home was big to this because he had feelings like a normal person would have and

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