I cannot imagine what he must be going through, a young child losing his parents. I'm crazy for my parents and I cannot imagine my world without them.
I know it's fiction but it does make one wonder, how do we deal with such losses. There are people who've lost their child or their parents and they somehow move forward. I fear imaging death, I try not to think about and tend to push it away. But there are times, it grips me and dawns on me that one day we're all going to die.
I wonder if death is going to be a welcoming though for this story given the time period it is set in.