A representative passage from this novel that holds particular significence to me.

Don Richardson writes on page 186:

"For moons without umber your ancestors gave their children to establish peace - not knowing Mayo Kodon (God) has already provided one perfect Peace Child for all men - His own Son! And because your children were not strong, peace could never last. The children died, and you lapsed back into war again. That is the reason Mayo Kodon sent me - to tell you about the Peace Child who is strong - the once-for-all Tarop (peace child), Yesus! From now on, let Sawi mothers keep their own babies close to their breasts - God has given His Son for you! Lay your hands upon Him in faith and His Spirit will dwell in your hearts to keep you in the way of peace!"

I paused to renew my dependence upon the Holy Spirit before exclaiming, "If your tarop children, who were weak, could bring you peace, think how much greater will be the peace God's perfect Tarop will bring!" When the Sawi people exchanged their child as a representation of peace, I was shocked by the similarities made by Don Richardson between Jesus Christ and the peace child. How do the Sawi people, whom we consider primitive and barbarian, have such a complex and efficient procedure of making a peace agreement? And how come is the concept of peace child so similar to the meaning of Jesus Christ on this world?
In my opinion, "peace child" was not an idea of an individual who coincidentally came up with giving up a child to attain peace. All the Sawi people probably had debated on how they would maintain peace in a world where treachery is prevalent and had finally come up with trading their child, which is more valuable to them than any other wealth, as the subject of compromise.
What surprised me the most, however, was the connections between peace child and Jesus Christ. As Don Richardson says, they both epitomize peace and are meant to be sacred to us. In Sawi tribe, if one of peace children dies while the peace agreement is valid, the two tribes go war again, and the other peace child might be dead already. In other words, man-made pace child is not perfect, but can be another creation of conflicts. In this view, the difference between Jesus and peace child is that: Jesus is perfect. We now live because of Jesus, who sacrificed himself for the sins of His own people. In this view, I found that this passage reminds us of Jesus, the ultimate peace child.