The Unplugging Interactive Oral
"not banished from his community, driven out like a dog" (p7)
"no, they pushed us out. They drove us out" (p 14)
"Our community- our so-called community- did not leave us behind. It is still there, building walls and gathering up guns to point at whoever they don't want inside the walls" (p14)
Power: They were forced out of their community by someone with more power than them
"I didn't think we would- line up behind feudal lords. Be assessed on our usefulness. Be found wanting" (p21)
"I would've hung around like a fort Indian until I starved or Laird's goons shot me, the way they did the feral dogs" (p 21)
"But I was really pissed that they only wanted women of child-bearing age." (p21)
Diction: Comparing themselves or perhaps their treatment as non human
"I was in a place, a group of people. They- didn't want me. I wasn't pulling my weight" (p 33)
Justice: The decision that women who could not bear were declared worthless could be based in misogyny
"The community-it's not going so well there. There's lots of- sickness, lots of anger, lots of power stuff going on. Laird is, like, king or something" (p 42)
Power and Injustice: How the power dynamics in the community changed to where people were seen as higher value than someone depending on how much a necessity they were leading to the banishment and injustice for innocent members of the community.
"And Laird, well, he seems to think that everything and everyone belongs to him" (p 42)
"They banished us, Bernadette, they sent us off without so much as a can of food. Now they are starving, we have plenty, and they want what we have" (p 51)
"Laird wanted to raid you, take everything. I told him I wouldn't bring him here.... He was sick, lots of the villagers were, people were dying. The ones who were healthy, we started to trap, to work for the village. Making soup, working in teams. People started getting better.... Laird didn't" (p65)
Justice: not true justice
Power: proof that unlimited and unrestricted power leads to negative benefits for society as a whole - even leading to the demise of the leader himself
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Power, politics: negative impact for the people who didn't have a specific strength
Politics: Bern and Elena were better off after leaving the group
"He's gone back, bearing that gift, to that place, that place that spat us out like rotten meat. It is his passport back in" (p57)
Politics: needs to have something to offer before they let him go back home