Posted by Tracy a 8th grader in Nebraska on February 25, 2003 at 22:58:59:
Dear Mr. Ritter,
Remember when the Dog-man in Over the Wall was talking to the crowd and he asked one question? It is after he said, "Jesus said, Fear thou not." This is page 159. Then he said that this whole country of America is walking around full of fear and that that was against Jesus because we should Fear thou not.Then he asks everybody a question and shouts "If Sad-dam Hussein was lying in the street, beaten and bloody, how many of y'all would pick him up? Carry him to shelter? Pay for his needs? (Well, that's three questions.)Anyway, he said, Jesus said, do it. Pick up your enemy. Don't walk by. "That's what Jesus taught, y'all"
Well, my teacher said that that was what Jesus taught in the old days, when Arabs and the jews were fighting like the Good Samaritan who helped the jew on the strret but not today. Today if your a soldier you have to kill your enemy because that was your orders.. I think he is wrong I think it takes the most bravery to help your enemy like Dogman said.
then okay later everyone calls dogman just a lunatic. But to me that was like calling Jesus a lunatic. Then we had to read tha poem of Mark Twains the War Prayer where at the end everyone calls the guy a lunatic. I was just wondering is that where you got the idea? Or was Dog-man Jesus? Oh
ijust noticed that dogman backwords is GOD NAM.
OK That's all. So far it is a very good book. It makes you think about it.
Sincerely,
Tracy Alexander
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