Okay, you got the "Chinese Iroquois"thing too. WHAT IS WITH THAT, SERIOUSLY WHAT, I'm always ready for works of the past to be racist but then sometimes they're just INDECIPHERABLY racist and I don't even understand.
I don't see how any other decision is really possible for the army AS an army without them being just vicious about it? In taking her in, either they recognize her as one of their countrypeople-- a citizen of France-- or they take her in as a foreign national, and then it gets into taking someone a prisoner. If they leave her, well, she and the kids are starving and utterly unprotected. They might leave food and some water with her, but that still leaves her walking a war zone unarmed and untrained. They may be forcing a group membership on her, but it's the only way they can offer everything they CAN offer.
As far as Michelle's general dullness of response, I really don't think enough credit's going to her physical straits here. I mean, she's been in a state of adrenaline rush, foodless and without water; if I miss one meal my responses go monosyllabic. She's doing REALLY well with her judgement overall, considering; but I don't think she'd be prepared to make this kind of abstract choice for several meals and a nap yet, and it kinda has to be made NOW-ishly.
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Re: General reaction
Date: 2014-04-24 11:54 pm (UTC)I don't see how any other decision is really possible for the army AS an army without them being just vicious about it? In taking her in, either they recognize her as one of their countrypeople-- a citizen of France-- or they take her in as a foreign national, and then it gets into taking someone a prisoner. If they leave her, well, she and the kids are starving and utterly unprotected. They might leave food and some water with her, but that still leaves her walking a war zone unarmed and untrained. They may be forcing a group membership on her, but it's the only way they can offer everything they CAN offer.
As far as Michelle's general dullness of response, I really don't think enough credit's going to her physical straits here. I mean, she's been in a state of adrenaline rush, foodless and without water; if I miss one meal my responses go monosyllabic. She's doing REALLY well with her judgement overall, considering; but I don't think she'd be prepared to make this kind of abstract choice for several meals and a nap yet, and it kinda has to be made NOW-ishly.