Summary:
In these pages of The Unheard Josh begins to feel fear. On Christmas eve a villager, Chitondo, had killed someone by punching him in the nose, breaking it in the process and leading it right into the other guys brain. Though, strangely, this is not why Josh was afraid, he was afraid of what happened to Chitondo afterwards. When the village found out that there was killer among them they set out in a mob to kill him. During their search in finding Chitondo they killed two of his friends, tortured his wife and threatened his mother. When they finally found Chitondo at hie girlfriend's house they threw rocks at him and he begged for his life. When the mob got him out of his girlfriend's hut "they stripped him naked and tied ropes to his wrist. The mob then takes turns, two at a time, dragging him miles on Christmas day even when he was already dead then they chopped him up and fed him to the dogs. And the most wicked thing of all was that they didn't think that what they did was wrong they thought that they were doing the right thing so they celebrated this.
Quote:
"Then the forest cleared and we were standing on a grassy knoll before a huge hill of thundering water, a long white curtain, a hundred yards long and a hundred high --it looked like God was dipping a paintbrush in the river.(Swiller141)
Reaction:
In this quotation from The Unheard Josh describes his path to a hidden waterfall. In this quote he uses descriptive words (adjectives), such as huge and long white, and he uses a simile to describe his surroundings. Throughout the book Josh describes his surroundings very clearly and he compares his experiences in Africa with other things such as God.
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