Endwar

I continued with my reading of the book titled Endwar, which was written by Tom Clancy. I left off when Halverson, the pilot that crashed in Canada, was being chased by the Russians. Halverson ran away through the woods, until she came to a cottage. At the cottage lived a family of three, husband and wife, and one son, the father grabbed his gun from a rack and told Halverson to go down in the cellar with his wife and son. He tried to defend them, was shot, and then his wife ran up and she was shot. As the soldiers were coming down, she shot two and the boy ran up, took their rifles, and killed one more. Then Halverson ran after the boy into the barn, he took out two more and Halverson took out the last one. She looked around and realized that the little boy was on the ground dying, he said one sentence, “it’s not fair” and then he died. I think this is a very important quote in the book for many reasons. There are many unfair things that happen to us in life, and we sometimes can do nothing about them. This was the instance for the boy, the Russians invaded his house, killed his family, all because his family helped out a crashed American pilot.