There's more to it than what we read

There is more to the story than what we are reading. one of the most significant parts of the story, I found was on page 126. This page included a story of an elephant and a hare. It was an ancient story passed down by generations through storytelling which is the way the Dinka people share their history. The story was about a clever hare who asked the elephant to carry him across a rushing river. The elephant was also carrying a basket of honey, little did he know the hare ate all the honey and refilled the basket with rocks. when the elephant lifted the hare down he cut the hare’s tail off. After returning home the hare, thinking quickly, told all the other hares that elephant would be angry at them all if they didn't cut their tails off like him. When the elephant went in search for the hare who stole his honey he never found him because all the hares had no tails. The moral? size does not matter when it comes to out witting someone, brain power does. This relates back to Jacob’s situation because his country is at war, and his mom always warned him to go to school and get an education because words can solve things and not war. Where does brain power come from? An education of course. Jacob is one small boy in thousands of others, like a hare in an elephant’s trunk; what he doesn't know though is that with the proper education he could make a difference in his country. Jacob is starting to learn the difference between having an education and fighting with words and not guns on page 136 when he see's Adam from the SPLA wack Matthew in the back of the head with his gun after Mathew tried reasoning with them over stealing the refugees food from a truck that was delivering it to the camp. There's a higher meaning I think, one that's not quite clear yet, but it’s their. I started to think I knew the deeper meaning when I read the story on page 126. The little hare outsmarted the big elephant and I'm thinking Jacob will do something similar. Jacob is always being compared to a hare and I think he will end up outsmarting the "elephant." Who exactly the elephant is, I don't exactly know. It could be the SPLA soldiers or the soldiers who pushed him out of his country or something else. There's a deeper meaning here and the more I read, the clearer it starts to become and I'm sure Jacob will end up making a difference somewhere, somehow.