Sacrifices

There are a couple of things in Litte Girl Gone by Brett Battles that caught my attention. Sacrifices is one. Like when Sein was going to trade herself  for her daughter, Elsye.  The kidnappers (really from Burma government) wanted that. They figured they would get the women out of states and kill her. Logan realized what was going to happen and put a stop to it. He realized what point of freeing Elsye was good for her.  The gov. officials would get who they wanted and would shut her up forever. Now, Elsye would be motherless. How would that be good? When Sein first thought of the plan, it sounded good. Heck, it would even sound good to me. But, the result, the consequence Elsye would still be paying for. She would lose her mother and blame herself for being kidnapped, and probably do what Sein did when she lost her mother. Step into the empty shoes her mother once had on. Sein reminds alot like Logan actually. Logan  goes to war alongside his brother-in-law Carl. But Carl gets shot and sees a litte girl run into the cross fire and demanded in his shallow breaths for Logan to go after her. He reluctantly does and brings her back to her family and returns to Carl.  But Carl dies a few minutes after. Logan found out that the little girl also died later on due to a bullet that landed in her abdomen.

The difference between these two characters were the results. Sein and Elsye both lived while Carl and the little girl died. Either way Logan would have probably lost Carl. But that little girl, the little girl who Elsye reminded me of. She didn't mean to be born, but when she was, she was  in the "cross-fire" between her mother and the Burma Government. I think that's what pushed Logan so far to save Elsye and her mother. Carl knew he would die if Logan left him, he sacrificed himself for the little girl, much like what Sein wanted to do. He went after them because he pictured Carl "on" Tooney. He knew saving Elsye can't make up for hte little girl who died, but i eased his mind. Evenm though it was a different little girl, Logan truly saved a little girl,-she survived.

There was also something about what happened at war with Carl, the little girl and Logan. Everyone had blamed him for Carl's death. Trish walked out on  him and he lost his job. Many people acted as if they saw Carl die. Nobody but Logan saw him slip away. HE is the only one with a mental picture of that. Nobody cared if he was hurting just like everybody else, they only added onto his burden. He wondered about all the ifs, what if i didn;t go after the girl, what if i left Carl and i got shot, what if... In a sense he hid that from everyone. His doubts, his what ifs, his guilt. Nobody would listen to him anyway. They judged and fibbed about what they heard. There were two parts from the war story. Logan's, and what people believed, or wanted to believe. There were two sides of feelings to the story. Logan's and the people. Sometimes people judge without knowing all the facts. Someone is tough and hardcore. You assume they're bad and mean. Don't judge until you know BOTH sides from a story and know which is truth and lie. Don;t be like the people who didn't care about Logan, who didn't take the time to sit down and listen.