n's way of using a scare tactic on the readers, to make us believe we are brain washed and need to rebel. Later in the book there is another story about how men kept jumping off from the edge of a cliff with a flying contraption, believing it will work all the way up until they hit the ground, think in the way that they "made it this far without a scratch". On this pilot's way down he sees many other abandoned flying machines. If all the past pilots spoke up to what had happened to them, then maybe they would all be flying by the process of trial and error. Through out the whole boPetteys 3book Quinn is throwing in small stories that make you think what would have went differently if one person stood up for what they really thought, or did.A poem "A Rock, A River, A Tree" was written by Maya Angelou. In the poem she writes "Come, you may stand upon my back and face your destiny, But seek no haven in my shadow, I will give you no more hiding place down here" In this quote she is saying that people have to stand up in what you believe in even if it doesn't work and human kind ends up looking into future which is the end of the world. It says that humans will gain nothing by standing back and hiding from the world, but by trying there is a chance even if it is such a small chance but the more people that stand up the more the chance gets smaller. The poem goes on to talk about how humans have only been created "a little lower than The angels" and have played ignorant for to long. Its time that people stand up and learn how to stop the evils of the world and fix what they have already done. Angelou says "take it into the palms of your hands Mold it into the shape of your most private need... of your most public self" she is trying to reach out to people to get up and go for what they want make it happen before its to late and it will be set in stone, where it's to late to turn back. She ends with the poem with a small sigh of relief by sayi...
