Response to “No One is Here Except All of Us”

The fiction begins with telling the history of a group of people who live on a remote island. They are ancestors who first build their houses, tilled the fields, and raises children. However, as the narrator says, they are also migrating people even in the beginning. The tribes traveled a lot, when their homeland was destroyed and they were cast out of it, they had to leave and begin again. With so many years, the tribes becomes the forgotten people who across the face of the earth, begin again and again to find the place where is peaceful.

It is a good fiction for the reasons that at the beginning, the endless escape and re-begin make people feel tired and hopeless. The tribes are scared when there comes the war that force them to leave, and they worry about their future. Like the narrator indicates: “All the while, they told the story back: In the beginning there was a beautiful garden, and we were cast out of it, and we began again.” However, in the endless loop of stories of wandering, being lost, and starting again, what makes this repeat meaningful is the faith of re-beginning. The tribes want to recreate their world where is safe, peaceful, and full of love. When there is nowhere else to go, the world begins again. The darkness foreshadows the dawn, and the tribes realize that when menace approaches, then there is the time to create their own perfect world that without fear and death. Therefore, the ending of the fiction is full of brightness and hope that makes the audiences’ heart soars.