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Richard Lewis The Killing Sea
In 2006, an author, Richard Lewis, who lives in United Kingdom wrote a book, The Killing Sea, about the tsunami in 2004 in Indonesia. He wanted to teach all the readers a lesson to appreciate your loved ones while you have them. Thankfully, Lewis understood how people may not think that they are going to lose someone that they love because he know information about the tsunami who killed 230,000 innocent people. A work well done, he created the sassy character, Sarah to have a conflict with her mom to prove that your loved ones won’t last forever or may leave you when you least expect it and to be kind to others while you have them. One true fact is that she was well aware that people could die in a tsunami. A tsunami is a natural disaster that was caused by an earthquake, another natural disaster.
In the middle chapters of the book The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis, Sarah changes how she feels
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To start this off, on page 117, Chapter 17, Sarah says, “My mom drowned in the tsunami.” Noticeably, it was right for Sarah to say that her mom drowned in the tsunami because it was pretty clear that her mother was one of the thousands of people that died. Secondly, Ruslan says in Chapter 17 on page 117, “No brothers or sisters. My mother died when I was little. Maybe I am lucky.” If you think about it, that quote means that Ruslan feels bad for Sarah and Peter since their mother died in the tsunami where as Ruslan’s mother died when he was little and it wasn’t as bad as understanding the death. Obviously, Sarah feels emotionally bad for Ruslan. The book states, “Sarah understood in terrible logic of that, although she sensed a certain bewildered ache in his words, that he should have no mother at all.” (Chapter 16, page 117). Unfortunately, that means that Sarah could tell that Ruslan hurt talking about his mother and that he rather have no mother at

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