The absolute location that the 43rd war takes place in is the El Salvador. One piece of evidence is that that Atlacatl was the last ruler of El Salvador (wikipedia), and I figured that this could be a fact because in the book, it was mentioned that there is a volcano called the Atlacatl volcano. Also, the country had very bad civil war difficulties in the nineties (wikipedia). Another reason I think that the 43rd war was based in Salvador is because the main language spoken there is Spanish, which is also the main language spoken in the 43rd war. Also, the main religion in El Salvador is Roman Catholic and in the book, they used two twigs to form a cross for the dead. It appears to be that there was a lot of guerilla conflict in the country, and in the book they mentioned that a lot. Moeri probably did not mention the name of the country because she probably wanted to add some kind of friction to the book, and also because the government might not be happy about it because it is not all accurate.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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Sabei !
You did a wonderful job of looking at some specific evidenes from the book to support your opinion. But I disagree with you, because Mr.Coyle mentioned that the ruler that was mentioned in the book was fictional, therefore, probably not having to do with the name of the volcano. Otherwise, great effort!
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Sabei,
Great job, most of your information is accurate, other than the bit about relating the volcano and the leader of the country together, and the part about the country speaking spanish, because most of Central America speak spanish. Other than that great post! : )
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