Lost Horizon
By James Hilton
Stephen Smith 10/17/12 Dear Conway:
I could assume that when you were kidnapped and than your plane crashed in the Tibet mountains you struggled to coop with it ,but you had to because you had a group to look after they needed you witch after sometime the real you returned. You had to work through the fact that you were trapped in Shangri La and the monks were telling you that you had to wait 2 months till you could get rescued and you just sat down and waited. Why didn’t you try to reason with the monks try and get out a different way? As it said in the book you blown up in the war and you haven’t been the same since, and I can assume that didn’t help you in your situation or problems.
Again Conway once you got to Shangri La and the monks told you that you had to wait two months you just gave up and read. What it seemed like reading was your way of coping until the monks asked you if you wanted to join than it seemed all about what the High Lama wanted. But you a choice to either lead your group or work for the High Lama and you choose the High Lama. Than your mission from the High Lama was to get your entire group to stay and that didn’t work out for you because everyone agreed to stay except Mallinson, he wanted to get out of there more than anyone. Mallinson wanted you to leave with him and that would have solved the problem if you had just said yes the first time he asked. Another thing you could have done is keep the group