Assignment 2 The Thief Lord

The Book
He seemed not to hear Barbarossa's screams. He just walked, as if deaf, his strides so long that Prosper struggled to keep up with him. Only when they had reached the house did Scipio turn to Prosper. He put the complaining Barbarossa back on his own feet adn said, "Everything has Shrunk, Prop. The whole world is suddenly so small. I feel like I don't fit into it anymore" Page 290


How I think of this.

This part of the book had me thinking a lot about how we as children think of the world. How huge it seems to us. Everything is new and wonderful. Yet as adults we see the cracks and faults that cover the very small world. I look at my own life as a child I use to think that it took over 20 hours to get to the beach because it was just so fast away the world was so huge to me. Now Scipio is seeing the world as small not the huge place of wonder it use to be. I found it Sad that Scipio gave up his childhood he will miss out on so much but he is away and free of his father so he will be happy and he can better care for the younger ones.