Summary Of Ramzan's Argument With Akhmed

1: Ramzan’s Argument with Akhmed (322-327)
Ramzan argues with Akhmed to convince him not to give himself up to the feds, demonstrating his camaraderie despite his distress with Havaa’s disappearance. More than friendship, he wants to relay to Akhmed the torturous qualities of the Landfill. Although Akhmed believes that he should “owe Dokka my silence more than I owe you anything” (322), Ramzan believes that “inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are” (322). He thinks that Akhmed is out of his mind, and doesn’t understand what he’s feeling, but still doesn’t want him to think he owes Dokka his life. Ramzan, as someone who has lived through the Landfill, knows that it is “in the business of changing lives” (325). As Ramzan life changed, he thinks Akhmed will have to endure the same intolerance. Akhmed’s point however,

This includes Dokka and Ramzan’s acquisition of the pistol, Dokka and Akhmed’s kidnapping, Sonja’s stress over Natasha’s disappearance, and most notably, Natasha’s own death. One of the main themes in the book revolves around the insignificance of events can lead to the significance of others. As Natasha’s life meets with Dokka, Akhmed, and Sonja’s lives, all of them meet in both random occurrences, and in life changing events. Dokka and Akhmed’s kidnapping happened because of the colonel’s death, which was revealed as Natasha’s doing. Although Natasha happened to be the woman who delivered Havaa, this turns into her getting gifted the pistol, and ultimately shooting the colonel. Dokka’s Landfill experience was due to the pistols, and his loss of fingers lead to Havaa learning how to use the pistol, and Dokka giving Natasha the pistol. Overall, this confusing order of events intertwine the lives of each character, resulting in the theme of every life being like a star, and how these stars may cross and deliver substantial