Reading Response "Habibi"

I absolutely love this book! It is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson. This book tells of one if the greatest love stories ever. It takes place in a land full of poverty, where to live is a simple struggle to overcome each day. The main character, Dodola, shows something that is hard to become no matter what the age, a mother. She makes a life with a young child she rescues which a she later names Zam out of nothing, just the desert. The pair learn to survive while at the same living a simple but grateful life, even sometimes they are on the brink of starvation. Dodola teaches Zam what is truly wonderful and important in life by teaching him the teachings of Islam. The author makes this easier for the readers to understand by intertwining it with the teachings of Christianity in a such a exquisite way that it leaves us hungry for more, wanting to so how deep Christianity, Judaism, Islam go together. This book keeps on asking ourselves how deep is our faith and for what we were put here to do, what does God intend for us to do with ourselves, why are we even alive, how did this all come to be; the universe, how does science and math all tie into our lives, especially religion? I believe that one of the reasons Thompson wrote this book was to make ourselves ask these questions we barely think about. Well it definitely worked on me. I now feel as if I know myself better.