Civil Peace

The family in this story worked very hard to earn money. Jonathan, the father and husband, used his bicycle to taxi soldiers around, he ran a bar, and his children picked mangoes for the soldier's wives. Jonathan was also a luck man because his house, wife, and four of his five children survived the war. Jonathan even recieved twenty pounds for turning in rebel money to the treasury. The fact that Jonathan and his family were willing to be creative and work hard to make a living, shows that they are not greedy people that expect everything to just be given to them. Throughout the story the idea that nothing puzzles god keeps being presented. Since Jonathan and his family are good honest people it seems fair that they got to keep thier home and earn the extra twenty pounds. Even when Jonathan is faced with theives that are after his twenty pounds, he does not endanger his family by challenging the thieves. Instead he hands over the money to spare what is most important to him, his family. The moral is that hard work pays off and that money is not everything.