Three Cups of Tea (90-215)

As Mortenson travels around Pakistan, he heard many stories, and many of those are retold in this book. Here is part of the story of a girl who lived in Pakistan during the war against India.

Fatima Batool remembers the first "whump," clearly audible form the indian artillery battery, just twelve kilometers across the mountains. She remembers the firs shell whistling gracefully as it fell out of the blameless blue sky, and the way she and her sister Aamina, working together sowing buckwheat, looked at each other just before the first explosion

This passage reminded me of both A Long Way Gone and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in that it is images of war and destruction burned into a person's mind. I cant imagine having so traumatizing happen to me, and i would have a very hard time retelling it. This scene like the bombing of Dresden in EL&IC really depicts well how war can affect the most peaceful people, even when they did nothing to start it.

Mortenson, Greg, and David Oliver Relin. Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time. New York: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007. Print.