History Headscratchers / TheBookOfLife

* How is ''every single bull'' the Sanchezes ever killed still in the Land of the Remembered? Shouldn't they be banished to the Land of the Forgotten by now? The bulls were only meaningless objects for bullfighters to kill; no way would they be remembered personally.

*** Meh, going from the subtle hints from the beginning, La Muerte and Xibalba most likely felt they had a secure wager...especially in [[spoiler: La Muerte's]] favor.

** There might be another reason for this; [[spoiler: he wasn't actually dead at the time]]. Go look at the WMG page. [[spoiler: Captain Mondragon is wearing the Medal of Everlasting Life. Who was the last person who had the medal before Joaquin?]]

** It's already shown that bulls do so, which means it probably applies to all animals.
** Since the dead appear as skeletons, what would the invertebrates look like? I wouldn't be surprised if the invertebrates commit ArtisticLicenseBiology and become skeletons anyway.
* How is ''every single bull'' the Sanchezes ever killed still in the Land of the Remembered? Shouldn't they be banished to the Land of the Forgotten by now? They were meaningless objects for bullfighters to kill. The living wouldn't remember them, at least personally as individuals.

** Possibly their non-Detention classmates already went on the same field trip, but with added perks like snack stops and scavenger-hunt games through the museum galleries. The Detention Kids couldn't be denied the trip altogether - it's presumably meant to be an educational experience, after all - but they got the no-frills version and maybe had to give up a Saturday to do so.

** Or maybe they're just an ordinary class of kids who ''look'' like potential troublemakers, and "detention kids" is just the museum staff members' way of expressing that.

** Some schools have programs rooted in the idea that detention is counter-productive (eg, if a kid's problem is that they can't sit still in class, taking away their few opportunities for movement and physical exercise is only going to make that worse). It might have been a "these kids are acting out because they're bored, let's see if we can get them to learn something in a different environment" kind of way.

** I knew La Muerte and Xibalba were the reason for the kids being in detention to begin with but I didn't think they could manipulate things like this. I guess they're doing more "direct" manipulations rather than the subtle kind. I also did not know that the Candlemaker was involved though nor that he was the bus driver! Yeah, perhaps the Detention Kids were meant to go to a place that would make them wish they were back at school but the Candlemaker went on a detour...

** CoolAndUnusualPunishment? OTOH, it's very probable that the whole thing was manipulated by La Muerte, Xibalba and the Candlemaker. (The Candlemaker was supposed to be the driver of the bus, so it's even possible that they were meant to be somewhere else)

* Why were the Detention Kids on a field trip to the museum? Last I checked, detention is a school punishment that typically involves forcing a misbehaving student to stay in a classroom during recess, lunch, or after school ends. So how could the Detention Kids be allowed on a field trip when, logically, they should be forbidden from going outside the school as per their punishment?

** Thanks for your explanations.

** [[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/figure+of+speech Figure of speech]]: any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect.

** Two ideas. Either he was referring to the second life that Manolo was fighting to win, or Manolo would have become DeaderThanDead had he failed.

*** Or, this would be another opportunity for Xibalba to cheat...most likely by either outside competition having the same (almost) fate as Manolo or perhaps cause something to steer them away from Maria and vice versa.

** Eh... not the case.

* While Manolo was in the labyrinth, his grandfather said, "run for your ''life''!" [[LogicalFallacies Wait]]. Manolo's dead. What?

* While Manolo was in the labyrinth, his grandfather said, "run for your ''life''!" [[LogicBomb Wait]]. Manolo's dead. What?