So I have a plan for organizing voluntary health teams. Appoint me to take charge and we can leave theauthorities out of it. In any case, they are too busy to cope. I have friends all over the place, and they willform the core. And, naturally, I shall take part myself.
Tarrou is WAY too willing to take on this amount of responsibility especially in the face of something proven to be quite deadly. This tells me that he's no ordinary man.
It was done through official channels, rather half-heartedly. What they need is imagination. They neverrise to the challenge of a disaster. And the cures that they dream up would hardly cope with a head cold. Ifwe leave them to their own devices, they'll perish and so will the rest of us
I'm not exactly sure what Tarrou means by this but he may not believe in the Prefecture's capability of establishing a volunteer health service.
Quite likely,' said Rieux. 'I must say though that they also thought about using prisoners for what I wouldcall the heavy work.
Government was literally willing to put the life's of prisoners in danger for the benefit of free individuals.
obliged
The government intended to force men to work against a deadly plague.
I missed this the first time I read.
ublic dissatisfaction
Forced work under dangerous conditions perfectly explains this.
Rieux hesitated
This usually indicates a very nuanced answer about faith.
'Do you believe in God, doctor?'
Tarrou dodges question again and directly asks Rieux about his faith.
'What did you think of Paneloux's sermon, doctor?'
Tarrou intentionally avoids Rieux's question about the danger of the being a front-line worker against the plague.
He also abruptly changes the topic to something he wanted to ask the doctor regardless of the situation.
'I've spent too much of my life in hospitals to like the idea of collective punishment. But, you know,Christians sometimes talk in that way, without really believing it. They are better than they appear to be.
Rieux reveals that he does not believe in what Paneloux has said and even thinks that Paneloux himself doesn't even believe that.
'I hate the death penalty.'
This likely correlates with Tarrou's Christian values.
'So would I; but why, after all?'
Rieux shares the same belief regarding voluntary action being wanted.
'I'd rather it was done by free men.'
Tarrou is not content with involuntary labor being used for an organized sanitation group.
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