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What is the story does Hamida tell Lenny to explain fate to her? What is Lenny's stance on fate? What about Hamida and other adults in the novel?
Hamida tells Lenny about the prince who was eaten by a tiger. The king and queen prayed night and day for a son. The king one day has a dream that he will have a son, but that since he has accumulated unfavorable karma in his past lives, he will be punished via his son getting eaten by a tiger when he is 16. The king does everything in his power to ensure this doesn't happen, having all the tigers, and even domestic and alley cats hunted and killed. Near the end of the prince's sixteenth year, the prince dies in the...
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