GOD SAID KNOCK IT OFF: BOOK REVIEW

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INTRODUCTION
God Said Knock It Off (The Lost Elephant King Book 1) was written by Maverick Monga. The book, more of an autobiography gives a life description of the author himself and some few people who he has ever interacted with in his lifetime and his service as a soldier. Unlike the authors of popular and bestselling books, there is not much that is known about this author, and all that we need to know about him can only be derived from this book. As it would appear, the author may not have written any other book, as all searches about him bore no fruits at all. As such, it can only be prudent to describe the author using the descriptions he has given himself in this book, and also from the readers' judgment as pertains to character, religion, parenthood, childhood, and school life.
The author's name is as stated above- that is, Maverick Monga, an American soldier who has served for several years and gone through a real tough life. He is born and brought up by a single mother, who was a daughter of a pastor. As such, he can be said to have been borne by a Christian family. His mother conceived him when she was only seventeen years, and this made her be kicked out from home by her father as such an action only brought shame to the family. This could also be interpreted as the cause of the author's tough life ahead.
As for now, it would be difficult to define the religion of the author because he has bluntly denied Christianity by blaming religion for the problems that people often go through. For a Christian, it would be difficult to make such arguments. The author has not hinted about what religion he believed in and, therefore, we can go ahead and claim that he follows no religion. He defies Christianity, but does not say what his religion was. In general, he argues that religion was not good for reasons such as religion only suppresses the problem, but does not get rid of the problem. He does not believe in God, and he has indicated in his book that
"God is whomever you wish them, he, or it to be. God is whichever memory you keep in your mind to warm you in the cold, comfort you in the dark, speak lovingly to you when all is silent. God is the voice within you that only you can comprehend, that listens to the most basic hum that resonates from your true natures core" (Kindle Location 49-51).
As for his career and/or occupation, the author is a soldier and from his stories, we can tell that it ‘pissed him off' to be a soldier and leading a life that was so difficult and with too many challenges and so many convictions to give up. In as much as he considered himself a real soldier, little does it seem like he is proud of that. There is so much he seems to dislike about this career, including the nicknames that seemed fun, even to his superiors who could not hesitate to call him such. ‘Shit pepper' was his nickname.
The book's thesis is also hard to define since his book suggests so many things that seem to defy life principles, norms, and customs, even science. However, as can be deduced from the book's preface, he wonders if a society can survive without emotions. It would be expected that his book would try to illustrate either why emotions are indeed useful or illustrate the contrary-that is, why we do not need emotions. After this notion, the rest of the book sections proceed to give an overview of his life as a soldier. He has indicated the tortures of life that he has gone through as a soldier and maybe this is why he does not see why we need emotions. From part two of the book onwards, the author has provided a collection of emails, letters, and faxes among other such documents that tend to describe his life and the lives of some other people.
He is inspired by a book he had read- Hope, and he admits that this boom left the most impression on him. He reads of a society that has eliminated both pain and strife, and also eradicated the emotional depth from their lives. After meeting ‘love', the boy does not mind to break any rule and indeed proceeded to do so. He (the boy) has discovered the power of knowledge, after which he finds himself in a dilemma- whether to stay with the community where he would be safe, or to run away and pursue a life full of love, choices, differences, and knowledge, but potentially dangerous one. How could our world be if there were no emotions? He will not stop fantasizing about this, and as he narrates his story as a soldier, it largely appears that his line of thought was instigated by the motley of things that have seemingly deprived him of his emotions.
To believe, and trying to make us believe that emotions, or emotionality, is the root cause of problems would be wrong. The author may have suffered emotionally, but still that does not wash away the need for emotionality. In this review, my thesis will be that despite the suffering we go through, we cannot blame emotionality, and the author in his book fails to satisfactorily show us why we do not need emotions, nor does his tough life. This review will be a journey through his story picking the bits of information about his life and its tortures. Even though the author really encourages us not to read his work as it is entirely ‘bullshit' this review will consider all the aspects of his hard life experiences and what they teach us. We will be trying to establish if indeed his challenges can indeed justify the fact that we do not need emotions and whether his own problems in life were the result of emotions because to him, emotions are the cause of the incidence prevalence of problems that people have.
Apart from the introduction given above, this review will be comprised of two main sections that will form the bulk of our analysis. The section that precedes this introduction is a brief summary of his book. In this summary, various aspects and themes will be considered and how they contribute to the thesis stated above. The bulk of this paper will be the analysis section, where a critical analysis of the authors' work will feature. In the analysis, several things will be put under discussion, including the targeted audience, the message, contribution and/or deviation from current thinking, and the usefulness of the book. His reasoning will be compared with the reasoning of other people to see if his reasoning makes any impact or just a vague opinion.
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SUMMARY OF THE BOOK
The book contains seven parts, and each part has a story or stories to tell. However, the vital information given by the author about his experiences as a soldier is found in the part one. Beginning with the foreword, the author recalls the longest distance that he has ever walked. Before he joined the military, he has never given a thought about such things. He recalls that he had once walked the entire day from morning to evening (sunrise to sunset), but all he could recall was only the pain that he had to endure as time passed by and as he walked further and further. ‘Rangers lead the way' is the subtitle of this foreword where he describes all this. He describes the pain that he experienced that began from the soles of his feet, up to the ankles and until the entire body felt numb, a numbness that fueled him despite being excruciating. Then the ‘hell week' begins, the second phase of becoming a ranger.
The ‘hell week' was a whole week of sleepless nights characterized by constant barrages of heckling and insults that came from the cadre. He describes cadre as ‘who didn't think you belonged and it was up to you to prove them wrong.' There was mental torture-resistance training which he humorously described as ‘which comically you can receive by actually being tortured.' He remembers that night when the soldiers are sent out into the night to find some located points, the cadre hunting them. He gives further details of the walking: it begins at 3 am where they are formed into two lines. The road was hard given the combat boots they wore, and the heavy sacks they carried slowed down their progress. Their uniforms caused a buildup of heat in their bodies, even when the morning air was cool. The experience is expected to get worse when there was a buildup of sweat. It is such times, he says, that one felt that everything thought as beneficial now turns against him. The foreword goes ahead to describe further experiences of the walk as the sun rises where everything seems like a test.
And what really kept them moving? The rain vehicle, he says, followed behind the formation of recruits, and this was a constant reminder that failure followed closely, and it would catch up if given an opportunity. The van was a safety measure and a marker that showed the minimum required to succeed. For the author, witnessing the shortcomings of another soldier were enough a motivation. More of these experiences are described in part one of the book.
     Part one also describes the infantry often regarded as the ‘Queen of the battle.' In chess, the queen is indeed the most versatile piece, and he compares this with the infantry where he describes it as the most versatile force in the battle field. ‘Everything, and anything' is done by the infantry and it is indeed the ‘most dangerous' force who could drop bombs on target areas and kill a bunch of people. It is here that he describes war as ‘selective' and ‘controlled' violence applied ‘precisely' where it is needed. He referred to himself and the entire infantry as special and a necessary unparalleled destruction force to be reckoned with.
He describes his captain, James Belvedere, who was 30 years of age as relatively younger that the normal choice- that is, as far as the commanders go. According to the author, the captain was a scrawny and geeky looking white kid and who was not necessarily what one would call an elite specimen. He lacked the physical prowess, but he excelled at motivational speaking. This could be put in quotes because what he calls ‘motivational speaking' is entirely ironical. The captain could actually tell a soldier that he has had sex with the soldier's wife, sister, and mother, yet he would be marching the soldier to his death, and the soldier would still be happy to go. Or maybe the captain was indeed motivational if the author really meant it. The captain was known for his habit of inserting a lesson with a pre-game speech. Despite his nature, the author and the rest of the ‘tards' loved their captain as their commander and were always ready to follow him.
The captain aside, the author goes on to describe his experiences in the battlefield. He explains how he tried to assess the level of difficulty between missions. The precise mission that he describes in this part of the book was their designation as peacekeepers. He blames the drill sergeants for skipping the bit of ‘interacting with ‘motherfuckers' that probably meant interacting with the people. On that particular mission, he suggests that something must have been terribly wrong because they got no welcome party at the meeting point. The meeting point, he describes, was an old building ‘in the middle of nowhere' in a place that seemed to have been part of a town. From here, they could see scattered small towns. He then described a rocket attack that hit the right side of the building. There is one character that the author describes here and other places, Belvy, one seemingly fearful person. In times of chaos like this, he would be heard shouting orders meant to keep the soldiers safe. He always kept the soldiers safe, and this time, he had indeed excelled at keeping them safe once again. He, however, was not as successful in other platoons as he had lost some soldiers.
After the explosion, there were sounds of gun shots all around and the author seemed to have been lost in thoughts. He, however, could see Belvy shouting to him to get behind the truck which he did. Even before he could assure Belvy that he was safe, he met his eyes looking in his direction, and he needed not be told that Belvy just got shot. He found himself rushing towards Belvy not caring about the bullets. How could he be thinking about Brittany Spears only to see his leader get shot? He was still thinking of Brittany Spears and saving Belvy. His injuries could not be saved by his first aid training, Belvy was gone. For many days, the thought of Belvy's death crossed his mind.
Often, when soldiers are leaving for a deployment, their families and friends come to see them off, but he had no one to do so. He had only his mother who could not make it. The soldiers, he says, could not control their emotions, especially because of the thought that it could be the last time they are seeing their people. It is at one of these deployments that he tells us about his mother, how she got pregnant at seventeen and after which she was kicked out by his grandfather. Though her mother worked hard to provide food, shelter and clothing, there was not in life for him. As he states, they skipped all the unnecessary emotional moments. He recalls how he would tell people when asked that his father was God. People would then start explaining how God was not his biological father. There is so much in this part of the book that explains about the life of the author.
He has interacted with people who he did not know how to handle, or, at least, he wondered how they made to becoming soldiers. Of these is Jackson, a small Asian guy who was brought up by an African-American family. It seems funny to the author seeing an Asian guy with the accent of an African-American. Jackson was one person that talked too much, and not the best person to accompany anyone on a guard. The author rarely listened to his stories, especially when it came to the issue of race. It seems Jackson hated the white race and talked ill of them until the author literary reminded him that he was among those whom he was talking ill about. He was given nicknames that he liked the least, and wondered why everyone fancied calling him by those nicknames, including his captain.
His stories are all about battle and the battlefield and from time to time he would display different feeling towards certain missions, people, soldiers, and even himself. His emotions are changing, as his judgments about emotions are. His last conviction is that a person lives only once, and despite what everyone else would argue, it remained that way. As such, the ‘supernatural being' should be eliminated with immediate effect.
As mentioned earlier, the parts that follow are a collection of letters, emails, faxes, and telegrams placed in the book at random most probably taking us through all the things that the author has come by. In the second part, however, he narrates an experience and suffering that he underwent at the hands of other soldiers. This part begins by indicating that Heaven was really not a nice place, may be because there were restrictions and thus no freedom. Here he expresses himself as a person who has come to realize how everyone gives no consideration about anyone. He says that he was done trying to be honest, cordial, respectful, or a gentleman. Why? He gets nowhere, he gets nothing in the end, he remains poor, angry, miserable, and a depressed nice guy.
His experience was when he greeted some men he thought were in the same rank as him and who turned against him, beat him up, and then raped him using a gun. He woke up several hours later and all he thought of was revenge. He armed himself, but the guys were nowhere to be found. On the 9th of January 2013, the thought of killing himself crossed his mind. He wanted to kill the pain that his life has brought him. Indeed, we could understand how he felt since a soldier is someone who is hardened enough to endure pain. But the physical pain, as we understand, was not as much as the emotional pain that he underwent. It is likely that this was not the only thing that caused him pain that he got to the point of contemplating suicide; it must have been a collection of this and many other past experiences.
Part three begins with an imagination of the author. He imagines if one was to be given some money for investment, a lot of money that will take long to count. If one is given 30 days to grow that money as much as one can and no consuming the caffeinated beverage during that period. Assuming one is being watched and anytime something is done contrary to the agreement the program is terminated. So, this part calls for such a person to express to the sponsors that he or she is worthy of it. It also gives directions on how to go about it.
“Met my hero” is another piece found on this part and that explains how the author met his hero, Alexander the great. He terms this hero as a genius and charismatic. He also highlights some of Alexander’s achievements. He also describes his meeting with Wendy Simpson in Texas, a girl who murdered her drunk father. In the articles that follow, messages from different people appear. For example, a person claiming to have been a captain in the army and having heart and ptsd problems. He lost a lot of soldiers that he cared about.
Martin Buma contacts someone requesting the person to cooperate in transferring ownership of a huge sum of money left in his bank by a man who died recently and who had no next of kin. Then there is this lady who wants to donate money to charity, but she cannot trust relatives and so she is seeking help. Another letter is addressed to a man by a lady who addresses concerns about aborting. Seems the boyfriend wants her to abort, but the lady is scared of the procedures and has vowed never to abort. However, she still has concerns for her lover, and never wants to do things behind his back.
There is this reply to a person who contacted Ashley in regards to bulldog babies. The dogs are being given out for adoption because they need to be cared for. Ashley seeks the address of the person for purposes of making delivery. Another reply is written expressing that they are not for sale and the transfer is not commercial, but concerns about the safety and wellbeing of the dogs. Then there is a description of how they will be shipped.
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Part four begins with a phone call conversation written in a poetic manner. Here, the author tells us to ignore grammar and punctuation, even spelling. There follows what I can describe as a poem about the writer finding himself in a forest with masked people. Another of these articles describes how a girl with cancer that has eaten her liver, but she still thanks her maker, and how he is planning to build his own house. Maverick N word describes how he found God. He introduces himself as an airborne paratrooper, and he wants to clarify on how he found God. He expresses that the life of a person who does not believe in anything is a very lonely one and over time, such a person will drive himself or herself insane. It would be very tragic if a person would not look to the heavens for assistance anytime issues arise in life. He goes on to explain how God never let him despite all his flaws and actions. It is not that he found God, but God never left him. There follows an exchange of letter between two people on the issue of some payment, and one of a man writing to his wife or ex-wife about filing a divorce.
A lady also writes to drew about the challenges she is going through. She is pregnant and the boyfriend is becoming increasingly abusive. She does not live with her parents, but with the parents of the boyfriend and she is struggling to find a job, a car and a space of her own. Then there is this question, “so exactly what’s your situation right now?” (Kindle Location 1704). Another one has been sick, but does not want to stay with the mum and is no longer moving to Houston. Another one changed from getting paid twice a month to once in a month, but has realized that things have not gone as expected. The person is currently mending things up. Drew is really getting a lot of notices from a lover, one indicating that she is fixing problems, another telling how she tried to call a few times with no answer, and another notifying him of an email sent earlier. There is also a letter addressed to a lover by a soldier saying that the arm has not decided yet where to send them, but he has three possibilities. It is like a goodbye since he will be gone for 120 days. Other such letters are scattered all over the remaining pages of the part four of the book.
Part five is titled ‘The Definition of Honor and Random Poetic Stenza’ and it is a collection of poems written at different dates and different times. The first one describes a path with a small fallen tree. The persona then digs a deeper hole and raised the tree again. The next one is when a brick wall comes upon the chest of the persona and the other side of the brick is his home, but the persona realizes he is not yet ready to be home. Another says that he just kissed the sky and seeks some time to testify. He asks himself what is the secret behind his success in getting that far and replies to himself that one needs to stop trying philosophy and to acknowledge that one is only human not supposed to fly. The stanzas continue randomly in the sense that they are not in any order.
There follows a testimony of a person trying to fast, pray, and figure out what his calling was in serving and showing who God was in his life. He has been through seven years of pain since he was diagnosed with Scerloderma at the age of seven. He testifies that God was present through this time, showed him who He was and is in his life. Through His power of healing, the physical pain subsided. The story does not go for long and the author of the book cuts it shot citing ‘bullshit.’
There follows an address made to a student who is given a favor of enrolling after the expiry of the deadline. The letter intends to address the concerns of the things that need to be followed and the class requirements. Among these are the syllabus, participation and class attendance. The expectations for a successful completion of the course are then outlined. The person addressed replies and cites that he does not see any favor that has been done to him and in a rude tone. The person goes further to put it that he is not the child of that teacher and so the teacher should never again scold him in front of the class for something that the teacher could not even properly explain. Whatever the teacher has to say to him is no businesses of anyone in the class. He explains that he was late to school due to an accident he had.
Part six of the book also has a story to tell. The author introduces the part by telling us that he I about read an extremely long sentence and think about the consciousness of the words’ potential harm to the human race. He shares his belief that the inner workings of the universe are connected to one another- that is, from the tiniest micron to the mightiest atom. He then quotes Shakespeare where he says that there are more things on earth and in heaven than what we dream of in our philosophy. He goes further to express his opinions about various things. He believes that there is nothing like fear. A door serves two purposes- that is, it is either you are exiting or you are entering. The door is a false sense of security since it does not stop the world from coming in nor does it stop one from going out to conquer the world. People live under assumptions. For example, they assume they understand what they see, they assume that they have grasped the reality, and they assume that they understand how things will play out.
There follows a story of a black soldier who was sexually assaulted by four soldiers who were white. The same person met a girl while on a mission in Iraq and fell in love with the desire to rescue the girl. He reasoned that if he were not to care for himself, then he should care for someone else. He realized whenever he tried to save others, he never tries to save himself. Selflessness. The story continues to tell of selflessness on his part. Poems and letters follow. One poem is about how amazing free will is, and it asks how free the reader is and where his or her freedom went.
The article Gertrude by Herman Hesse talks about how people live. There is a rhetorical question that asks why do people rise in the morning, eat, drink, and sleep again. This applies to everyone, the savage, child, young, healthy, and old. When people get satisfied with the things of life, they tend to relax and do not want things to change. In other words, there is no motivation to do things, to think, and to try new things. The article that follows is about love and its nature. When people think of love, some special people come to their minds. There follows another one that defines an unsound mind. A person is said to be of unsound mind if he or she cannot manage himself or his affairs.
Part seven is titled the madman’s bible, and some of the letters or notes that appear here are dated in the future. The first is dated 05/23/2018, a letter that informs a lover that the sender will be out of touch for some time. Another is dated 2045 asking about holiday plans. Apart from these written before time, other are dated long time ago, over two centuries ago. An example of these is one dates 1818. There are also recent ones written some few years ago. A letter from Allan dated 2012 welcomes a brother. 
BOOK ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE
    This section will seek to answer various question in an attempt to analyze and criticize the book. The following will be an analysis of the target audience where there will be determined who were targeted to read this book. The choice of the audience and how they are addressed will also be looked at and how effectively they are addressed. The author’s message to the targeted audience will also be analyzed. Considering that the book contains the author’s biography and it touches on the lives of some other people in the stories, notices, mails, and letters therein, it would apply that the key message is found in all or some of these aspects of the book. Afterwards, this review will highlight the current thinking on the topic and what other authors are reasoning as compared to what Maverick is saying in his book.
The audience
So, who are the targeted audiences? Books are often written for a variety of audiences. There are also other addressed to specific audiences. Considering that the author of this book is a soldier and expresses the challenges of his life as a soldier, it would not be wrong to suggest that the soldiers are a target audience. The author may have intended that fellow soldiers get to know what he was going through and maybe see if they too can share their experiences freely. It is known that soldiers often live an enclosed life-that is, rarely do they have the chance to tell their stories. The lives of the soldiers and their experiences in the battlefields are in most cases expressed through media like films and cinemas, and these are often fiction. However, a soldier telling his story is a rare circumstance.
The general public may also be considered as a target audience for the book. The primary reason for this is that apart from sharing own stories with fellow soldiers, the author would have wanted also to tell relatives and everyone else to get a glimpse of what being a soldier is like. The author would have intended to tell his story to the world so that the world can know that being a soldier is not the best thing that one can choose, and that in most cases, lack of anything else or anywhere else to go may be the reason for joining the military. For the youth who may believe that being a soldier would earn you respect, the author would want to show them what one has to go through and what is there to expect once one made that decision. More so, his message of no-regard to religion and emotions would be intended not for a specific group, but for everyone who decided to read the book.
The message of the book
The message from the author is that people live in a world full of challenges regardless of whatever they do, the world will always be unfair to them. From his own life, the readers can indeed establish that life is unfair to everyone even though in different measures. A soldier would be deemed as a strong person who if fearless and who is willing to face whatever danger that comes his way. Even though, the same soldier may reach a point of giving up in life and even contemplate committing suicide. From youth to adulthood, there is not time one finds adequate peace since the world and its injustices are always close by seeking to devour and make life miserable.
    The author intends to reason with the readers showing them that there is no need for believing in anything or any religion or any supernatural being because that will only mean more trouble. By believing in religion, people will only be seeking more trouble because religion is not capable of eliminating any problem. Instead, the religion will only suppress the problem. The author gives an example of Buddhism where people are taught to meditate and seek inner peace after which the problems will disappear. In Christianity, people are taught that the problems that they face in life are intended for them mostly as a test of their faith. In that case, the author wonders how could a seek person find the strength to thank God while she is ill. Christians also believe in healing through faith, but the author does not want to view things in a religious perspective. As quoted earlier on, the author seems not to believe in the existence of God. That is when he says that God is whomever people wish Him to be, it is that memory that people keep in their mind to warm them in times of cold, to comfort them I times of darkness, and to speak lovingly to them lovingly when all is silent.
In the preface, the author expresses his concerns about the need for emotions and the reason why people really need emotions. As mentioned earlier, his reasoning was inspired by the book called Hope that talked of a world where people lived without emotions. Considering the tone that the author used, one could tell that it is obvious the author buys the idea of a world without emotions. There is indeed a link between the ideas of a world without emotion and one where people do not believe in any supernatural being or do not go by any religion. The author was comparing his own world where people chose reasoning and logic over emotion and that world where are eliminated. How would the society be? How would people be making decisions? In the normal world, people do rely on their reasoning and logic. Rarely do they give a chance to their emotions to guide decision-making. Convinced that life would be better for people in the absence of emotions, the author then could not hesitate to conclude that the emotions are the main ingredients in human aggression and that emotions are responsible for intolerance. The human species should as well get rid of their emotions if their lives were to be simpler and better.
In the part one of the book, the author has tried to explain his life and the actions that he took. How do these relate to the topic of emotions? It can be inferred from the stories that the emotions were driving the author and often he found himself in a worse situation because of acting as his emotions directed him. The decisions that he made following his emotions were not the best that he could do, and there are also instances where he refused to follow his emotions completely. For example, the second part of the book gives a story of how he was sexually assaulted by soldiers he thought were of the same rank as he. He was hurt both physically and emotionally and the best thing he thought was to commit suicide. He was reasoning emotionally. Secondly, he contemplated revenge and were it not that he could not find the men who hurt him, he would have either killed them, opened fire to them of which they would return fire, or he would have had himself killed trying to face the four men alone. Indeed, emotions make people increasingly intolerable. Another way of looking at this is on the perspective of the assaulters. They assaulted him because they were hurt by his greetings that most probably they interpreted as an insult. If there were no emotions, they would have tolerated that and moved on as if nothing had happened and the man could have been left unhurt. They too acted emotionally or were driven by emotions. If that is what emotions make people to do, why then can people not eliminate emotions? So, the definitive question suggested by the author is not about how a society would look without emotions, but who would people become without the emotions. There is a lot that the book suggests.
The author also intends to show the readers how he himself has been ‘deprived of the emotions’ by the world. For one, the author has lived with a single mother and with whom he did not have enough time to interact. Children develop emotionally when they interact with the people bringing them up, and the nature of the interaction determines the nature of the emotions. As such, a child who has not had adequate interaction with the mother would be expected to have emotional challenges. The author has indicated that the mother was always working to feed, clothe and house him, a job that he says to have been for two people. This is to insinuate that his mother had no time for him as she was working for long hours in a day. He also tells the readers that he has been affected emotionally. In school, he was not the brightest of the students, and the teacher would scold him in the presence of the whole class. Why? Even he himself could not tell why and he indeed wondered what his issues had to do with the rest of the class. It can be summed up that his life was full of emotional challenges.
Reading the entire book will reveal that it was not only the author who has had emotional challenges in life. We can tell that his mother was also experiencing emotional challenges, especially after conceiving at a very young age and being kicked out of the home by the father. Among the many letters and emails, there is one of a woman who has some health problems and who has lost faith in the relatives because they do not want her to donate money to charity. The lady is seeking someone trustworthy who will facilitate the transfer of the finances. There is also another lady who just got pregnant, but the boyfriend has become abusive. The pregnant lady is struggling to get means of providing for herself- that is, she wants a car and a house for her own now. There is another pregnant lady who is choosing whether or not to abort because the boyfriend may have suggested that. She, however, is vowing never to abort yet she wants to do things that would please her boyfriend. In short, the whole book is comprised of stories with pope suffering emotionally. Without emotion, who would suffer as such?
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