I think that when Nikolia helped Leo it showed that he cared for people and if Nikolia had not stopped to help Leo dig the whole book would never have happened and then he wouldn't have gotten answers to his thre questions. If he hadn't helped the Panda might have died and the child might have gotten lost and never found. If he hadn't gone to help the Panda then he never would have known tht he had to help find the child and if he hadn't found the child he would't have foudn the answer to his question. When the author says the last line of the story when he says "That is why we are here,: I think he meant that if we didn't have the answer to these questions then there would be fighting and there wouldn't be a human race and we wouldn't be here. The answer to these three questions is what keeps the human race going because if we didn't know the answers because the answers are what kept us on the earth. Humans can't always get along but with those answers it will help us be better people because if we're better people we'll become a better world and Nikolai whated to be a better person. I think the illustrations helped tell the story because the illustrations were kind of dark and scary when th Panda got hurt and when he helped the Panda and put the splint on her leg the illustrations got brighter.
I don't get the red kite, but the red kite always told us where Nakolia was because you could basically look up the string and Nikolia would be there. One of the times when I knew was the best time to do something was when two of my friends were in a fight and I had to decide which one to stick up for and it's hard because they were by my side. The reason I knew that was the most important one - actually, it was both of them, but if there are two people by your side you have to do it for both of them.. The right thing I did and I knew it was to stop the fight and that would be doing good for both of them and that way I had the anwers to all the quetions and I ws able to do it for two people and not just one.Nikolia had helped the Panda and she was desperate for her child and he still listened to her and he made sure he saved the child before he went back. If he given up his search for the Panda then the little baby Panda might have died.