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Trapped
Hope
“Hope—it is such a frail word. Hope offers nothing concrete, no plan, no schedule, just a wish, a prayer, a belief—it flickers on, and then flickers off.” -Page 57
These sentences speak on the tragedy of their situation. 33 miners stuck underground with no contact to the outside world, hoping, living for a way out, for somebody to come rescue them.
“When the noise sounded close, his spirits rose. He felt alive. But each time, the drill pulled away, the noise fading to silence.”-Page 69
This little bit talks about how the people inside the mine felt when confronted with the possibility of getting out and that moment of like "we did it. we made it out of there alive" and how badly they want it to happen.
"Faith can be seen as a stronger version of hope. It is hope plus—hope and belief, hope and trust." - Page 63
This passage speaks about how they survived and what kept them alive while they were down there. Their faith, hope, belief, and trust kept them alive for as long as they were down there.
Expendability
“The bosses said, ‘If you don’t want to work in the mine, then get up and go. There are four or five others who will happily take your place.’ A miner works where there is work.” - Page 45
The fact that people there who work day in and day out are being used and not valued enough to even make a strike on the job is laughable and the fact that the people there just say "if you don't want to do it, don't, somebody else will."
“He rushed up the endless, sharp turns of the corkscrewing mine and finally made it to the surface. He, at least, was safe. But when he described the sound and dust cloud to his bosses, no one listened”- Page 29
None of the bosses even listened to the men who work for them and the basically they reason they even make any money. These bosses clearly don't mind losing a few lives if they make money until people around the world start broadcasting and showing everybody what is happening.
”Dark so deep that every miner knows he must work with a buddy, because if your hard-hat light goes out all you have is the feel of the rock.”- Page 39
How much would the bosses or people who work above them care about them to at least put in some other kind of safety measure than a "buddy system", one of the oldest most basic things of all time?
Lack of Credit
"The inventor of bronze must have seemed to have tamed fire, to have shaped earth, to have given human beings both a gift of the gods and the tools of envy, war, and conflict. ." - Page 48
The author hear talks about what it must have felt like to know of or be a miner during the times when a new super-sought after material was invented such as bronze, metal, or steel and how they're inventors were once seen as super intelligent and honored for the creation of those materials.
“They called him lame and ugly, a mere worker with rough hands, not a shining hero... we eagerly use the treasures of the deep earth that miners bring us, while ignoring the men in the mines.”- Page 49
Our under-creditting of people, like in this example, the master of the forge, a greek god Hephaistos, the man behind all the weapons the other greek gods use is laughed at and called ugly and boring reflects how we under-estimate the people like miners who work underground and work for ourselves
Purpose
"...all this action served another purpose—it changed hope from thirty-three frail and separate dreams into a shared goal they were working toward together."- Page 59
The leaders, including a man called Uruza, gave some first tasks for two reasons, both because they needed somebody to do the tasks, but also because they needed everybody to work together as a group to get anything done down there.
"Everyone was occupied. They had a goal, a purpose." - Page 71
They all found purpose underground by getting/giving each other jobs in the underground colony. Some were assigned to look around the mine, others to tend to food, and one guy to be medic