Reflection on "The Rebellion Within" by Lawrence Wright

I did not like this story because of all the revenge that it had. I noticed that in all the cases all the people like Zawahiri asked Imam, always wanted to have more control or make sure that other people know who they are. Since they wanted this, all they did was rebel against other people or find revenge. A lot of the times, however they tried to rebel or find revenge and they did not succeed. Even though this happened, they did not learn from there mistakes and they continued doing the same as before.

I do not understand the point of rebelling. If you lost a war or anything then that is were it is supposed to end; you are not supposed to add on to the discussion. If you rebel or take revenge on the situation, it is just adding on to it and asking for more. When this happens you may or may not get what you want but you get nothing except pride. In the story they never tried to take peace instead of rebelling. If they had tried to take peace, the ending might have been a little better that it was with rebellion. Taking a peace also shows that you did not give up but you still want it to stop. This way nobody wins and nobody loses.

I did not like this story but it still shows a lot that happens in the world. In the world there is a lot of rebelling and revenge going on and even though some people do not want to face it, it does happen a lot. I said that I did not like the story because of that and maybe I thought that because it is showing me how people really are in the world. It has gone around so much that I probably do it without even noticing it. Everyone around us always wants some revenge and we have grown so used to it that we don’t notice it anymore. This story can show people and make them think about our world a little more.