One Question

I think that Nikolai, instead of asking the three questions could have asked just one, "What should I do?" Even though he was trying to figure out the answer was a good thing, he was being lazy because he was just asking other people to give him the answer instead of trying to figure out the anwer on his own. He could have asked even 100 questions. He could have just figured them out on his own. That's way I think the book was trying to you . . . so you don't have to ask all those questions so you know. Nikolai was doing it for a good reason . . . he wanted to make sure he could do good and no one else would get left out and no one would feel Nikolai wasn't doing good all the time becasue that is what he wanted to do. I thought the friends that were animals were cool . . . the monkey was acting like most monkeys do and the crace, she was trying to make sure he was gentle. With the dog . . I think the dog was trying to include all of his friends because dogs live in packs and always have other dogs around and he wanted Nikolia to have lots of friends. I don't know what the monkey was trying to give him but it might have been compassion. The monkey's answers were like how do you heal the sick and how to pay close attention and he said that because if you pay close attention you know who is being left out . I also think he wanted make sure he was having fun because when Nikolai asked the qusetion, What is the right thing to do? the crane and dog both put in an answers that fit themselves but the themonkey had one that can fit anybody because in his it was having fun all the time. I just now noticed that every time you see Nikolai he has a bright red kit that is on the cover and sometimes when you can't see the kite you can still see the red string and when he starts to go back home and both of the pandas have good home you see that he has his kite again. I didn't think the kite was important to the story but it was just a cool thing popping up in the illustrations. I think that the turtles answers to the questions were the best because he gave answers that everyone can use and I think they had a whole lot of meaning and basically the whole idea through all the questions is what you do now. They are all kind of saying that what you do then and now is different because what's happening now is probably never going to happen the same way again and what happened in the past can be important like if one of your famly members die that doesn't mean you have to forget them but you kind of need to forget the parts that aren't important because if you live in the past you will miss opportunties that you probably won't get again. And because if you are living in the past things are going to pass you by and you're not going to realize and and what the turtle said about the most important time is beoing now and I agree with that because he is actually right about that. The most important time is now.