Journals

Date: 11 August 2008

Entry:#27

Reflection:

Infants were taken from earth right after their birth because they were seen as something evil, more specific, a curse. However, in the second part of the novel the reader is introduced to a different type of outcasts whom were called the osu. These people were dedicated to a god, set apart, a taboo forever, and all their generations of children as well. They could not marry or be married by the free-born, and lived in a separate area from the village close to the Great Shrine. These men were dirty and could not take up any titles.