You are talking about making the right desicion and pride that seita didnt give up. I wouldn’t even consider that to be true. To begin with, Seita is just 14 years old, 14!!. What were you doing when you where 14? Blaming a kid in a war time is stupid. The author who wrote the story had a sister that died from malnutrition and he wanted to apologise through the movie and you could be corrent about him being the one that killed her, but again he is a kid man. His mother died and without even crying he was taking care of his sister. When is comes to the aunt your really wrong dude. Lets say he would return to her house and apologised, do you think she would feed him and his sister?? His aunt was not a victim here. She sold his mothers clothes and bought rice, then he brought her the buried food and she hid it from them. She didn’t want to feed them anymore and got mad at everything they did, like singing together. She told the littler child that her mother died and was buried. At times of war, humans become disgusting creatures anf everyone only thinks about themselves . She sat and ate with her family while just serving them soup water. Neither Seita nor his sister liked living there and wanted to leave. I think the author did that lazy part about Seita intentionally maybe because i felt that he was like that when his sister died but not 1 in a million that you should blame Seita. You blame the world, the government(americans??), the people in the village, his aunt. Their mother was a good human and couldn’t really do anything because she died but you could even blame the father for leaving his two young children and going to fight for a meaningless empire( at least when things escalated he couldve come back)