a.barnhurst
The Sling
Everything You Need to Know
5 stones in his pouch!
How did a girl who represents the Arab world get wrapped up in King David? Sometimes that world gets badly stereotyped and certainly they need a sling to combat it. Helen alone stands for the plight and pleadings of our Arab and Persian brothers and sisters. In a series that defends freedom of conscious, set where the birth of that concept took place in the modern world, I must appeal to many. And remembering that Cyrus the Great of Persia first permitted this freedom in his Empire with his Cylinder. With a study of Modern Hebrew and Arabic since college, I among many people are rooting for peace between the Jewish and Arab/Persian world. David is discussed in Surah 2 and 38 of the Quran, so is as much the Arabs as he is everybody else's. Just wait there are many more surprises along those lines throughout the series.
David...
in the novel is an obscure character that represents Joseph Smith's youngest son, not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. David Smith died in a mental hospital and represents everyone from mild to severe mental illness and trauma.