Bonus: Cultural significance of the following passages
"We are of the tribe that asks questions, and we ask them to the bitter end. Until no tiniest chance of hope remains to be strangled by our hands. We are of the tribe that hates your filthy hope, your docile, female hope, hope, your whore -" (43)
"Kings, my girl, have other things to do than to surrender themselves to their private feelings" (31).
The tribe represents the civilians of France who are questioning the actions of the puppet Vichy government. The bitter end refers to either the Holocaust or the Vichy government attacking them. The civilians will keep being critical of the government as long as the government keeps doing wrong things. Hope is the possibility of a new future for the French civilians.
Kings is referring to the Nazi’s and by not surrendering themselves to their “private feeling”, they are ignoring the French people’s society and views of life. The Nazi’s take over because they believe it is the right thing to do. They have no sympathy for any destruction or harm they cause because they feel it is a necessary cost they must pay.
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