Callie Walker 1 What do you think drives one character to go ahead with his mission and the other not 2 What do you think of the rhetoric against the cycle of violence in Palestine in the movie 3 What do you think is the message of the movie 1 I think Said s reasoning is because of the women he falls in love with she acts as the conscious and moral human reasoning in the movie and appeals to his human side When he sees the child on board the bus and chooses not to detonate the bomb this shows role of the doubter Said is angry with Israelis for taking advantage of his fathers weakness when he collaborated with them revenge is his motive to subdue his anger with them Influenced by Suha who discovered their plan Khaled cancels his suicide attack Khaled tries to convince Said to back off as well However Said manages to shake Khaled by pretending to agree 2 suhas father died as a martyr and this was the influence for her to be against the violence the collaborators are always executed in times of war and because of the tragedy in this family the remembrance of his father is what drives him to go ahead with the mission 3 The suspense and plot twists in the movie There was clear risks involved in humanizing suicide bombers saying it is easier to see a suicide bomber as a soulless robotic shell of a person programmed to wreak destruction than it is to picture a flesh and blood human being doing the damage