Science, Religion and Philosophy in the Novel

These three topics are ever present throught out the novel arising throughout the conflicts and the main events of the book. Religion, Philosophy and Science are all presented through the belifes of the fundamentalists. They want to digress society back to the way they want, using their relgion, philsophies and sciences. They use their influence to get the public to help inforce their rules and regulations to form their new society. Meanwhile Boualem is trying to fightand resist this change by sticking with his beliefs and philosophies. The main purpose of this book is to show how the beliefs and philosophies of a tyranstic power can hurt and severly damage a society. This hurts Boualem a lot because he is not used to having his beliefs changed and manipulated he wants to think his own thoughts. The fundamentalist change everything and hurt Boualem but he still keeps on goin despite all he faces. He survives but the world he knew did not.