This young boy, around the age of 20, is Hilda son and, therefore, Elishva’s grandson. He takes part in a plan that Elishva’s daughters and Father Josiah devised to convince the old lady to follow her family to Melbourne instead of staying in conflict-torn Baghdad, where she waits in vain for her late son, also named Daniel, to return. His kindness, along with his resemblance to Elishva’s son, convinces the old lady that she should nurture this special bond with a current family member, instead of spending all of her time reflecting on her son’s death.
Daniel (Elishva’s Grandson) Quotes in Frankenstein in Baghdad
The Frankenstein in Baghdad quotes below are all either spoken by Daniel (Elishva’s Grandson) or refer to Daniel (Elishva’s Grandson). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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There were people who had returned from long journeys with new names and new identities […]. There were people who had survived many deaths in the time of the dictatorship only to find themselves face-to-face with a pointless death in the age of “democracy”—when, for example, a motorbike ran into them in the middle of the road. Believers lost their faith when those who had shared their beliefs and their struggles betrayed them and their principles. Nonbelievers had become believers when they saw the “merits” and benefits of faith. The strange things that had come to light in the past three years were too many to count. So that Daniel Tadros Moshe, the lanky guitarist, had come back to his old mother’s house wasn’t so hard to believe.
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