War+With+Grandpa

I think that the most important lesson Peter learned was that just because you don't get what you want, doesn't mean that you have to go to "war" with the person that took it away from you. I think he learned that talking it out peacefully works about ten times better, like at the end of the book when Grandpa decides that he will live in the basement and Peter gets his room back. I think that he knows now that just because someone's old and frail or sad and greving doesn't mean 1 that they can't pull tricks and/or fight back and 2 they can't have fun and/or be fun. I think Peter knows now that compromising and talking and peacemaking is important and that helping sad and/or greiving people is important, too. I think that Peter was gradually learning this throughout the book but learned it most at the end when all of the conflicts were resolved.

I think that the most important lesson Grandpa learned was that even after someone dies or something else tragic like that, you can still find fun in life. I think the he has realized that there's more to Peter than meets the eye and that funness comes in the most serious of things, like war. He knows now that there should have been less physical/mental contact, just talk, like Peter realized. He learns that you can use skills that you learned for an occupation to make life much easier, like when he made the basement into a small little apartment home. I think he learned that funness can be found in many, many things when he thought about the war, when he reflected on all that had happened.

I think that Peter's parents partially "caused" the war because they were the ones that said that Grandpa had to live in Peter's room without talking to Grandpa or Peter about it. I think that the war wouldn't have taked place if they had talked about the situation peacefully BEFORE Peter moved upstairs instead of AFTER Peter got moved upstairs and started the whole war thing. However, it wasn't ALL Peter's parents' fault. Peter really overreacted. If Peter had simply done what his parents should have done before he went to war with Grandpa, the war, agian, wouldn't have taked place. I think that nobody should be blaming anybody else because it was really everyone's fault and nobody's fault at the same time.


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