Vengeance Is Ours

These are just some thoughts that popped up during and after reading this article:
When i first started reading this article i was a bit confussed about the whole situation in which Daniel was in. The title made more sense to me when i defined Vengeance.
The author of the essay Jared Diamond states an opinion saying, "uncles and aunts play a big role in raising children, so an uncle’s death represents a much heavier blow than it might to most Americans." I feel that having your uncle die hurts just as much in America as it did to Daniel. That to me was a very interesting opinion to state.
Things are very different now in the sense of revenge. There are alot more consiquences now if you get caught planning to put someone in any sort of danger. I thought that the war between the Handa and Ombal clan started because of a pig running into a garden and ruining all of the crops was ridiculous.
Daniel grew up learning some interesting things, He says if you die from a fight you will always be remembered but if you die from a disease you will only be remembered for a little while and then eventually be forgotten. I never thought fighting solved anything.
"The New Guinea Highlands are full of aggressive men seeking revenge for their own reasons, and skilled at using treachery to achieve it." i agree 100 percent with this line in the essay.
Not only did he feel he needed to get revenge but he felt the need to make it other mens problems as well. "Daniel engaged more than two hundred men as allies for his own revenge agenda."
The comic strips really completed this article. In strange ways it tied into the story line and kept my mind going.
This story relates to alot of different things going on in the world today. The War and the elections are to examples of this. In order to induce us to do so, state societies and their associated religions and moral codes teach us that seeking revenge is bad. As hard as it is to except what has happened and continue on, its whats best in my opinion. Daniel himself admitted that the New Guinea Highland way to solve the problem posed by killing isn't good and goes on with his reasoning.
Vengeance is Ours really does keep your mind going and fills it with tons of thoughts and questions as soon as your finished.