This book helped us gain another insight about how terrorists think. The narrator starts out as a regular person who doesn't want to kill others. He is enrolled in a university; however, it has to get shut down because of all the explosions and bombings. He was very determined to get an education, but his dreams were crushed when the university was shut down. Then, he goes through a number of different events that provoke him to become a terrorist. Baghdad is falling apart, and it seems like no one has any hope for living anymore. Terrorists are willing to destroy anything for revenge against others. They don't seem to care that they are killing innocent people, including women and children. The narrator sees a retarded villager get killed by American soldiers. He could not believe this. Then he sees a wedding ceremony get bombed killing many people. So many different things happened that made him not want to live, and become a terrorist. It is unfortunate what these people had to go through in their lives.