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Why is the outsider’s perspective valuable?

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Why is the outsider’s perspective valuable?

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In the book, The Merchant of Death, D.J. Machale shows the reader, through Bobby Pendragon, that an outsider can bring a different view helping you better understand the situation. An outsider can help you become more open minded to different and more complex ideas.

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Why is the outsider's perspective valuable?

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Why is the outsider's perspective valuable?

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Denduron is a territory similar to Earth but in a different time period technologically. All territories have a big battle in which an outsider, traveler, from another territory must come and help steer the battle for their side of choosing. While Bobby might be cowadish, he brings loads of intelligence to help the Milago. Since the USA has already been through slavery, Bobby is able to see the flaws of the "system" the Bedoowan have in progress. Bobby uses his knowledge to try to help the Milago defeat the Bedoowan. Bobby explains to the Milago leader that he shouldn't use explosives to kill the Bedoowan because on Earth "'there are many weapons like [tak]. But the biggest fear we have is that they will be used. There must be another way'"(Machale 289). Bobby used his outsider knowledge of past Earth events to help prevent the Milago from making a big mistake.

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Bobby: 12 year old kid
Travelers: People from different territories coming to sway a big conflict for the better or worse
Territories: Basically planets from any time period such as Denduron or Earth
Mallos: Bad Traveler
Uncle Press, Loor, Osa, Bobby: Good Travelers
Milago: A mining village that is ruthlessly taxed by Mallos for there ore in return for not being destroyed by the Bedoowan
Bedoowan: People that live in the luxurious castle near the Milago
Stony Brook: Bobby's home town
Tak: An explosive found in the mines of Denduron

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In the book, Bobby is brought by Uncle Press into a interdimensional battle between the Milago and Bedoowan. Uncle Press is captured by Bedoowan Knights and Bobby must rescue him to save all of Denduron.

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Bobby is a "coward" (Machale 147). Loor calls him a coward because he just lets others do the work and watches. In this particular case, he just stared at the warriors fighting and didn’t help.

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He is very nervous in different situations. “‘I . . . I’m sorry’” he stutters whenever things go wrong (Machale 153).

Bobby shows his intelligence on page 210 when he uses a laser pointer to distract a Bedoowan knight. This was smart of him because Denduron is less advanced than present America so he could bring items from Stony Brook to confuse others.

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The conflict is external and is character v. character. Uncle Press is an essential part to the success in saving Denduron and Bobby is fighting Mallos for him.