BP 7

Some essential information from the story is Hamid’s childhood. He was adopted by Huss Thomphson and his wife. Hamid remembers being happy growing up even though he knew he was adopted because his parents had told him. He started college at 8 and was forced into math. He was not as good as his parents wanted him to be. That same year, everything started going bad. His mom left his dad and Hamid eventually stopped seeing her because she stopped visiting. Hamid overheard his dad having a conversation and that is where he learned that Thompson was hired to raise him. He felt anger towards his father. (pg 24-25) As the story goes on, Hamid is in Ravna’s world and she tells him the plan they had all along and how Hamid was supposed to be the clone of an important leader. Hamid learns more in detail about his childhood and finds out the real reason he never saw his mom again. He learns that his father was the one who really wanted Hamid to be happy and the mom took the money. Hamid was mad at his father for a long time but now Hamid was traumatized which was not something that was supposed to go according to plan. Now Hamid had to work with the Tines for two years to try and make himself a clone of the original leader. (56-59) This information helps us understand the story because it helps us learn about where the blabber came from and how she was used to try and be there for Hamid.