Flights: A Novel

how is the theme of violence present within the story about the sultan?

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When the sultan's mother insists that the sultan choose between herself and the sultan's children, the sultan makes his choice clearly known. The sultan quickly stabs his mother in her womb, described as the sultan's "first home" (117) before fleeing with his children into the desert.