Theloc also said that if apes weren’t so primitive they would have killed everything in the universe. Ralph argues with that, but can't help to agree also. As I read what Theloc says I understand that all of what he says is true. If you look at our race from his point of view you will realize straight away that he's right.
Even the Wawaka that caused so much chaos don’t come any where near to what we do everyday. They don’t experiment on their own kind, like we do. When Ralph was in the Theloc ship where Wawaka was taken prisoners he threatened to kill them because they killed Postie, their postman. But the Wawaka said to him,
“ We have experimented on lower species, to try and find a cure for a disease. Tell me ape, if you took your little dog, Maisie, to your ape earth and sold her to your ape scientists, they would take her into their laboratories and strap her down and cut her open and put tubes in her, and give her your worst disease and watch her die in agony. Would you kill them too?”
Ralph could not find an answer to that because he knew deep inside, though he didn’t want to admit to it, that they were right. Still he wanted them dead. He lifted the weapon and tried to shoot but to his surprise he couldn’t, he realized he was frozen. Theloc took him away from that room and took him to his wife and daughter.
There, Huthme offered him some food, because she thought she knew what humans ate. She asked him if he wanted the charred bodies of pigs, and the charred offspring of birds, the crushed and charred offspring of wheat, but by that time he knew he wasn’t hungry even if he was before.
After all that Ralph been through he understood what Theloc meant when he said that apes were the worst race. And as I read this book I too understand what the author is trying to say. For the first time I think I saw things like Theloc saw them. This world was the worst out of all the others. People are murderers, even if it is eating meat of a dead animal or killing a person. But there are some people that do try to make a difference, trying to be good and make this world a little bit better. This book has changed my opinions a lot and now I see things in a different way to how I saw them before. I am pleased I read this book because it opens my mind to other possibilities and gives me other choices as to what I want to believe in and helps me to make up my own mind.
By Diana Rough
5/2/2007