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Monsieur Ibrahim did not commit suicide?
Apr 21 2008, 4:13 PM EDT
Monsieur Ibrahim did not commit suicide, but he knew he was going to die. The reasons for this are found in the text. First why did he go on the trip with Momo? He left because he wanted to return to his birthplace in order to die. He had not reached his birthplace when he did die, which suggests that he did not plan to die there. He also wanted to visit his friend Abdullah. Why would he want to die before seeing him once more? The fact that Momo is surprised to find him and that he is still alive to talk to Momo suggests that he did not plan to commit suicide because if he did he would have died, not been hurt to the point of no return. If one can hurt themselves just enough so that they have just enough time to talk to their loves ones but still will inevitably die is a plan that is not really rational to believe. Instead it is more likely that his accident was circumstantial and he just was hurt badly enough. Indeed this is often the magic of novel and cinema. Of course sometimes suicides go wrong, but suicide does not seem as though it is a possible answer because of M. Ibrahim’s strong belief in his faith. The moral presented in the book such as overcoming fear and sadness, broadening one’s perspective on life, and living by listening to oneself, is contradictory if M. Ibrahim killed himself. What strikes the reader is that he knew he would die on the trip, but it was that he knew that his life would end on the trip, not that, he was going to end his life on the trip. Thus the claims that Monsieur Ibrahim's death was a suicide does not fit in relation to the morals of the book, the death occurred at a place that was not exactly where Monsieur Ibrahim would have liked to die, and he was hurt very badly by the accident but was not killed instantly like the many people who commit suicide. Do you find this valuable?
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