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She's all radical and wants revenge letting other die; however she seemed to have fun by herself while people die in war. I feel like this is a little disrespectful because we wanted revenge and wants people to fight back, but she doesn't really support it that much.
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She wanted the fighters to attack back and they did; however, she doesn't take in the fact that someone's father died and that her friend may never see her father again. Her consolation feels like to justified his death instead
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Marji is becoming more radical wanting revenge against the people that attacked her home country. I feel like it's understandable to want revenge but when she is a child, it feels a little off
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I find these panels as striking because she tells god that she doesn't want to see him anymore, seems like she is fighting back religion or that it has failed her
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Her family is attacked and told that women needs to wear a veil or they will attack them again
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Religion affects Marji and her family because they had to do what others want them to do like the veil and praying
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I feel like this shows Marji coming or age because she had learned about everything her parents are fighting for and wants to join in but reality sets in for he and she isn't allowed to
he mon-ey lay on the table for the rest of the evening. It was stillrhere when I went back to my cabin. In the morning, thorrgh, I found anenvelope tacked ro my door. Inside were the four fifties and a two-wordnore rhar said EIr,4ERGENCY FUND'Ilne l-ltan Knew.
The old man helped him and even gave him money for the labor he did. The old man never pressured him but accepted him and helped him. He was probably grateful for the old man for giving him money and affirms that his decision to run away was okay
My conscience told rne ro run, bursome irrational and powerful force was resistine like a weighr pr-rshingme toward the war. What it came down to, srupidly, was a sense ofsharne. Hot, scupicl sharne. I did nor wanr people ro rhink badly of me.Not rny parents, not my brother and sister, not even rhe folks .lown arthe Gobbler Cafe.I was ashamed to be rhere at ttre Tip Top Lodge. Iwas asharned of my conscience, as[amed ro be doing the righr thing
He is having an internal conflict about his emotion and rational because he ran away and was ashamed of himself. He then didn't want to burden himself and is family. It could be interpret that he was about to give up to do the right thing for everyone but he couldn't do it
I remcrn-ber, Elroy put down his maul and looked at rne for a long rime, his lipsdrawn as if framing a difficult question, br-rt rhen he shook his headand wenc back to work. Thc rnans sel{-control was antazing. He neverpried. He never put me in a position that required lies or denials. Toan extent, I suppose, his rericence was rypical of thar part of Minne-soca, where privacy sdll held value, and even if I cl bee n walking aroundwith some horrible defbrmity - four arms and three heac{s - l'11 s111sthe old man would've talked about everything except those exrra armsand heads. Simple politeness was parr c-rf it. Bur even rrrore rhan that, Ithink, the man understood that words wefe insufficie
The writer uses deformity to emphasize that the old man was very careful, mindful of his words and polite to the point he didn't want to bring up hard questions or pressure him. It shows how the old man knew the reason but kept it to himself to not burden him
ter supper one evening I vomited and went back to mycabin and lay down for a few moments and then vomited again; anothertime, in the middle of the afternoon,I began sweating and couldn'r shutit ofl. I went through whole days feeling dizzy with sorrow. I couldn'tsleep; I couldn'r lie srill. At night I d ross around in bed, half awake,half dreaming, imagining how Id sneak down ro the beach and quietlypush one of the old man's boats our into the river and starr paddling myway toward Canada. There were times when I thoughr Id gone offthepsychic edge
He is afraid of the police finding him, he is so nervous that he couldn't sleep and he would throw up due to the anxiety. He was so scared he wanted just to disappear without a trace, He was probably nervous with the old man, but later on he respects him and owned his life because of him
he man was sharp - he didn't miss much. Those razor eyes. Nowand then hecl catch me staring out at the river, at the far shore, and Icould almosr hear rhe tumblers clicking in his head. Maybe I'm wrong,but I doubt it
He was scared and is very doubtful to the point he was uncomfortable due to the old man being sharp. But still he tried to doubt himself because the old man has helped him so far, but still he would've ran away if he was cornered.
exhausted, and scared sick, and around noon I pulled inro an old fish-ing resort called the Tip Top Lodge. Actually it was nor a lodge ar all,just eight or nine tir-ry yellow cabins ch-rsrered on a peninsula thar-juttednorthward into the Rainy River. The place was in sorry shape. Therewas a dangerous wooden dock, an old minnow rank, a flimsy tar paperboarhouse along the shore. The main building, wl-rich srood in a clus-ter of pir-res on high ground, seemed ro lean l'teavily ro one side, like acripple, rhe roof sagging roward Canada. Briefly, I rhoughr abour rurn-ing around, jusr giving up, buc rhen I gor our oi rhe car and walked upto the fronr porch.
He been driving for a long time aimlessly and is unsure of running away. When he made it the the lodge he was already tired and scared. Maybe the way he see the lodge is his mentality right now, because he is feeling terrible and is pessimistic to the point he was about to give up
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He has always has this internal conflict of running or staying, but he finally made up his mind and just left and drop everything he was doing and went home. He then looks at his home one final time and left. I do not know what caused this awakening and pushed him to his choice maybe it was the stressful environment, reality knowing that his life would be pointless working in the pig factory and to die in a war if he didn't do anything it, so he ran.
t was a kind of schizophrenia. A moral split. I couldn't make upmy mind. Ifeared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid ofwalking away from my own Iife, my friends and my family, my wholehistory, everything chat matcered to me. I feared losing the respecr ofmy parents. I feared the law. I feared ridicule and censur
He didn't know what to do, he was scared of the war and wanted to run, but he also didn't be on the run, away from everything he knew, If i was in his position then I would has struggle in making a decision, I would be scared of both things, left with no options
"Yo' ole black hide don't look lak nothin' tuh me, but uh passle uh wrinkled up rubber, wid yo'big ole yeahs flappin' on each side lak uh paih uh buzzard wings. Don't think Ah'm gointuh be run 'way fum mah house neither. Ah'm goin' tuh de white folks bout you, mah young man, de very nex' time you lay yo' han's on me. Mah cup is done run ovah." Delia said this with no signsof fear and Sykes departed from the house, threatening her, but made not the slightest move to carry out any of them
Delia threatens Sykes and shows how she a strong female character because she stood her ground against Sykes and scared him away
"Whut's de mattah, ol' satan, you aint kickin' up yo' racket?" She addressed the snake's box.Complete silence. She went on into the house with a new hope in its birth struggles. Perhaps her threat to go to the white folks had frightened Sykes! Perhaps he was sorry! Fifteen years of misery and suppression had brought Delia to the place where she would hope anything that looked towards a way over or through her wall of inhibitions.
The snake is sometimes portrayed to be Satan in the bible (maybe not) and the snake is what cause problems and led people to their downfalls like Adam and Eve. The snake is not in the box and is moved, Delia thinks that Sykes is sorry and looks for hope due to all her oppressions.
Then, moved by both horror and terror, she sprang back toward the door. There lay the snake in the basket! He moved sluggishly at first, but even as she turned round and round, jumped up and down in an insanity of fear, he began to stir vigorously. She saw him pouring his awful beauty from the basket upon the bed, then she seized the lamp and ran as fast as she could to the kitchen. The wind from the open doorblew out the light and the darkness added to her terror.
Sykes put the snake in there, did he try to scary Delia with it or to kill her? At the end it backfires and leads to his death, it is ironic that he said that he was not afraid of snakes and said he knows how to handle them but at the end he was screaming like a mad animal because he was afraid of the snake and dies.
she saw his horribly swollen neck and his one open eye shining with hope. A surge of pity too strong to support bore her away from that eye that must, could not, fail to see the tubs. He would see the lamp. Orlando with its doctors was too far. She could scarcely reach the Chinaberry tree, where she waited in the growing heat while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye which must know by now that she knew
The snake bit Sykes and he is left to die. Hurston uses imagery and language to show how there was nothing left for him with the hope in his eye disappearing, doctors being too far away and the swollen neck. Sykes also seem to be happy to see Delia for the first time and that he had hope, does he deserve this? Was it an accident, karma that led him here? There also might be biblical symbols here such as the tree and the snake.
'Mah Gawd!" he chattered, "ef Ah could on'y strack uh light!" The rattling ceased for a moment as he stood paralyzed. He waited. It seemed that the snake waited also. "Oh, fuh de light! Ah thought he'd be too sick"--Sykes was muttering to himself when the whirr began again, closer, right underfoot this time. Long before this, Sykes' ability to think had been flattened down to primitive instinct and he leaped--onto the bed.
Delia took away the last match, if she didn't take it away, he would've been alive, is this karma for his actions against Delia? Delia seemed to be enraged and took the last match or did she take it intentionally?
"Aw, she's fat, thass how come. He's allus been crazy 'bout fat women," put in Merchant. "He'd a' been tied up wid one long time ago if he could a' found one tuh have him. Did Ah tell yuh'bout him come sidlin' roun' mah wife--bringin' her a basket uh pecans outa his yard fuh a present? Yessir, mah wife! She tol' him tuh take 'em right straight back home, cause Delia works so hard ovah dat washtub she reckon everything on de place taste lak sweat an' soapsuds.
Sykes feels like he can do whatever he wants, he tried to flirt with another married woman and the other neighbors wished that they were there to catch him. Sykes is extremely disliked by the community.
Dat wuz fifteen yeahs ago. He useter be so skeered uh losin' huh, she could make him do some parts of a husband's duty. Dey never wuz de same in de mind."
In the past Sykes was scared of losing Delia, that he would do the husband part. If that happened why did he beat her? Was he trying to get rid of her now? Is that why they are arguing and fighting most of the time?
She better if she wanter eat
This shows the reason for Delia to be working hard, because she is the only person working while Sykes does nothing. It also shows that Delia has been working hard and shows the reason for why Delia told Sykes to stop throwing the clothes out because maybe if she didn't arrive on time, she would of lost her job
She seized the iron skillet from the stove and struck a defensive pose, which act surprised him greatly, coming from her. It cowed him and he did not strike her as he usually did.
Is this the first time she did this? He seems very surprised. In the past she said she was beaten, maybe her retaliation stopped him
Two months after the wedding, he had given her the first brutal beating. She had the memory of his numerous trips to Orlando with all of his
At the beginning of their marriage, she has been beaten and worked hard due to her husband's actions, He would spend all his money and come home with no money. In the past she was soft and young, but all her hardships had harden her.
Looka heah, Sykes, you done gone too fur. Ah been married to you fur fifteen years, and Ah been takin' in washin' for fifteen years. Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
15 years and their relationship seems like she gives everything she has and he takes everything, she has been trying while it seems like he has done nothing about it to help.
WILLIE: Is okay, Boet Sam. You see. Is . . . [He can't find any better words.] . . . is going to be okay tomorrow. [Changing his tone.] Hey, Boet Sam! [He is trying hard.] You right. I think about it and you right. Tonight I find Hilda and say sorry. And make promise I won't beat her no more. You hear me, Boet Sam? SAM: I hear you, Willie. SAM: And when we practice I relax and romance with her from beginning to end. You watch! Two weeks' time! "First prize for promising newcomers: Mr. Willie Malopo and Miss Hilda Samuels." [Sudden impulse.] to hell with it! I walk home. [He goes to the jukebox, puts in a coin and selects a record. The machine comes to life in the gray twilight, blushing its way through a spectrum of soft, romantic colors.] How do you say it, Boet Sam? Let's dream. [Willie sways with the music and gestures for Sam to dance.]
Willie now stops beating his wife, a change from the beginning where he would always beat her, showing change, and Sam who needed money for the bus used his money on the Jukebox, I interpret this as a way for Sam to cope,because dancing for him is like a world without any bumps, any conflicts. With this end, Sam seem to be escaping reality by dancing, Willie changing his ways, and Hally maybe becoming more like his father or maybe listening to way Sam told him and might change
You don't know all of what you've just done . . .Master Harold. It's not just that you've made me feel dirtier than I've ever been in my life . . . I mean, how do I wash off yours and your father's filth? . . . I've also failed. A long time ago I promised myself I was going to try to do something, but you've just shown me . . . Master Harold . . . that I've failed. [Pause.] I've also got a memory of a little white boy when he was still wearing short trousers and a black man, but they're not flying a kite. It was the old Jubilee days, after dinner one night. I was in my room. You came in and just stood against the wall, looking down at the ground, and only after I'd asked you what you wanted, what was wrong, I don't know how many times, did you speak and even then so softly I almost didn't hear you. "Sam, please help me to go and fetch my Dad." Remember? He was dead drunk on the floor of the Central Hotel Bar. They'd phoned for your Mom, but you were the only one at home. And do you remember how we did it? You went in first by yourself to ask permission for me to go into the bar. Then I loaded him onto my back like a baby and carried him back to the boarding house with you following behind carrying his crutches. [Shaking his head as he remembers.] A crowded Main Street with all the people watching a little white boy following his drunk father on a nigger's back! I felt for that little boy . . . Master Harold, I felt for him. After that we still had to clean him up, remember? He'd messed in his trousers, so we had to clean him up and get him into bed.
Sam had always tried to save the boy and bring him to salvation, seeing how Hally has always been missing a father figure and that his father is just a sad man. Wanting to save Hally from reality, he flies the kite with the boy. And now he has failed to save the boy, because Hally hates his father and is acting out.
The sound of the big band, Hally. Trombone, trumpet, tenor and alto sax. And then, finally, your imagination also left out the climax of the evening when the dancing is finished, the judges have stopped whispering among themselves and the Master of Ceremonies collects their scorecards and goes up onto the stage to announce the winners. HALLY: All right. So you make it sound like a bit of a do. It's an occasion. Satisfied SAM: [Victory.] So you admit that! HALLY: Emotionally yes, intellectually no.
Sam talks about the the joy of ballroom dancing and tells Hally about the things like emotion and imagination, to which Hally saying that yes and no, but still interested, telling Sam to say more about ballroom dancing
Splendid, Sam. Splendid! For once we are in total agreement. The major breakthrough in medical science in the Twentieth Century. If it wasn't for him, we might have lost theSecond World War. It's deeply gratifying, Sam, to know that I haven't been wasting my time in talking to you. [Strutting around proudly.] Tolstoy may have educated his peasants, but I've educated you.
This is during apartheid, so sam couldn't have gotten an education, but he was taught by Hally and learned a lot of things. Also they both are now in agreement, because they have been arguing about who was the greatest
HALLY: [Gosh], you're impossible. I showed it to you in black and white. SAM: Doesn't mean I got to believe it. HALLY: It's the likes of you that kept the Inquisition in business. It's called bigotry. Anyway, that's my man of magnitude. Charles Darwin!
Sam seem to not believe in evolution and Charles Darwin, while Hally believes in science and says that it changed and revolutionized it. This is a different beliefs between science and religion
"Introduction: In some mathematical problems only the magnitude . . ." [He mispronounces the word "magnitude."] HALLY: [Correcting him without looking up.] Magnitude. SAM: What's it mean? HALLY: How big it is. The size of the thing.
Hally has more knowledge than sam, This must be, because it takes place during apartheid so sam would have less education than Hally who study a lot and know a lot.
No. The hospital. HALLY: But it's Thursday. There's no visiting on Thursday afternoons. Is my Dad okay? SAM: Sounds like it. In fact, I think he's going home. HALLY: [Stopped short by Sam's remark.] What do you mean? SAM: The hospital phoned.
Hally's father seem to be in the hospital and that he is being discharged, so Hally questions Willie and Sam to see what his mother said to find out if his father is okay or not.
Hiding on Sunday night, then Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday she doesn't come to practice . . . andyou are asking me why?
Willie says that she is a bad wife but he beats her, so it is bias for him to say that when he's the one that's bad to the point she doesn't go to practice.
I'm getting it. The quickstep. Look now and tell me. [He repeats the step.] Well? SAM: [Encouragingly.] Show me again
Like a mentee and mentor relationship and shows that they are friends
“Because every time I see her I want to tell her I’m sorry your mother is alive, because it reminds me that mine is dead.”Aaron winces. He takes a nervous sip from his red cup before looking at her again.“That’s fucked up, Claire. My mom misses you too.
Claire is reminded by Angela's mom that hers is dead and explain why she doesn't talk to the Hall anymore, then Aaron says his mom misses her too and reveals that Claire's reasons behind her action and behaviors, which are jealously and being unable to cope, which also shows her action on treaty puppy the was she does
The Halls rent out their house for the spring and Angela fin-ishes her senior year at a private school closer to DC. When Claire sees them rolling their suitcases out to the car, preparing to follow their moving van, she feels shame and relief, in which order she cannot say.
When the Halls are leaving the state, Claire feels shame and relief at the same time, maybe she was ashamed for the death of Aaron or the falling out between her and the Halls. Claire also felt relief, she may feel this due to the pressures she had felt and how she didn't know how to talk to the Halls
Someone has found a photograph of Aaron, the one that ran with his obitu-ary. His smile melts into the part of Claire that still remembers when he was missing his two front teeth
Claire was very close to Aaron and had many close memories, she is upset about what has happened and is longing for the past
Claire watches Carmen, who does not look in her direction. Car-men is surrounded by two full rows of black students, more black people than Claire has ever seen on campus before—maybe, it occurs to her, more black people than Claire has ever seen at once in her life
Claire looks at Carmen, the person who Claire "threatened" and she sees a lot of black students protecting her, to make her feel more comfortable at the campus, and this somewhat surprised Claire because she has not see so many people at once in her life. Which can show that when people struggle, many people will support you, in this case it's Carmen
Mrs. Hall will tell the reporter that a black boy doesn’t get out of the car at night in the woods for a car full of angry white boys in Virginia. Claire’s father will read the paper and say it’s not the 1950s.It isn’t, it’s the first decade of the new millennium, but Claire’s father is a lawyer, and Seraphin’s boyfriend’s father is Claire’s father’s golf partner. No one is assigned any legal responsibility for the accident. The Halls’ lawsuit is dismissed before Claire has to say anything in public.
Because of Aaron's death, the Halls finally does something and filed a lawsuit saying that Aaron, a black man would not go into a party of angry white men. This would end Claire's relationship with the Halls, because they were dismissed, making Angela stop talking to her
he tells the police later, a huge black guy pulling Claire out of her car and rum-maging through her purse and driving her away, he is alarmed enough that he and his friends get back in their car and follow Claire’s, alarmed enough to call the cops while they’re driving
This shows racism of how Aaron was seen as a black man "kidnapping" Claire, which would end it tragedy due to his death. this also shows that even though she was close to Aaron, she will be affected and be unable to move through the past.
Cliff from Tennessee writes that when he was in college, his fraternity hosted an annual plantation ball for their sister sorority and everyone dressed in their frilly historical finest. One year he and his frat brother decided to cover the house’s front lawn in thousands of cotton balls, so that when they posed for pictures on its steps, the college’s mostly black janitorial staff could be seen in the background of the shot, cleaning up. PC police tried to shut down our chapter for it, but we stayed strong. Hang in there! the email concludes. There is an attachment: a picture of a boy, smiling wide in khaki pants with a button-down and vest, his arm around a laughing redhead in a corset and frilly hoop skirt, cotton balls blanketing the ground beneath them, a stooped black man in a green uniform sweeping up cotton in the background. He has a broom and a plastic trash can on wheels and his uniform is crisp and synthetic-shiny—there’s nothing historically authentic about his presence, other than his blackness. She cannot see the man’s face, but she can imagine it, and the imagining comes with a twinge of shame. But she is not Cliff, Claire reminds herself; Cliff thinking they are the same doesn’t make them the same
Supporters came to support her, and she sees a black man being subjected to stupid things because of the supporter's actions. She felt ashamed as she looked at the picture, but she is not the same as the supporter, and tries to put herself up. However, that fails due to the large amount of threats and hate, which changed her
She affects a lilt to say so, but as soon as the words are out of her mouth she realizes that the affect is a mistake. She doesn’t sound like herself. She sounds like Angela.
this shows how she is affected by her actions, when she does something that is a mistake, she changes, where it says she doesn't sound like herself anymore.
The next morning, the voicemail on her phone is full. She has 354 new emails, most of them from strangers. Across the hall, campus movers are noisily carting Carmen off to a new dorm. A reporter from the student paper, unable to reach her by phone, has slipped a note under Claire’s door asking for an interview. She gath-ers from his note that several bloggers have now picked up both the bikini photo and Carmen’s photo of last night’s postcard. She has a text from Jackson. The hashtag #badbikiniideas turns up one hun-dred thirty-seven results, including one with a picture of swastikas photoshopped into palm trees. An email marked urgent informs her that her academic counselor would like to speak to her. In a separate urgent email, the Office of Diversity requests her presence. Some-one using the email fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou@gmail.com thinks she is a cunt. Twenty-two different rednecks from around the country have sent her supportive pictures of their penises.
She did something that had a really big effect of which caused a "controversy" where people are calling her "racist" /shaming/threatening messages, while other "racist" supporting her. Shows that little things or things done on impulse can have very major consequences
When they were both in the car Rye leaned against thewindow, looking at them, seeing that they were less afraid now, that they watchedher with at least as much curiosity as fear."I'm Valerie Rye," she said, savoring the words. "It's all right for you to talk tome."
I have no idea, but I think a illness caused people to be unable to speak or communicate civilized or death. Rye survived and is left in the wreckage of the city, until she meets a man and formed a relationship until his very fast death, where she is given hope by the 2 kids she finds who are immune to the illness
. Obsidian was gone. He had died and left her—likeeveryone else
Everyone dies, she didn’t want to be close to anyone but when she does, they either die or disappear. Showing maybe the reason behind her calling him obsidian, before falling in love and his death
both had admittedwhat it was not safe to admit, and there had been no violence. He tapped his mouthand forehead and shook his head. He did not speak or comprehend spokenlanguage. The illness had played with them, taking away, she suspected, what eachvalued most
They both talked to each other and came to an understanding after Rye wanted to kill the man. The man noticed the troubled/killing look and they both had a conversation. No violence and death, they had a civilized conversation unlike everyone else who fight and act violent in a disagreement.
Abruptly, she hated him— deep, bitter hatred. What did literacy mean tohim—a grown man who played cops and robbers? But he was literate and she wasnot. She never would be. She felt sick to her stomach with hatred, frustration, andjealousy. And only a few inches from her hand was a loaded gun
Was there a reason for her to hate people who knows how to read, maybe you had a experience where educated people caused her suffering, to the point where she will or almost killed a man who knows how to read, a stranger
they passed blocks of burned, abandoned buildings, empty lots, and wreckedor stripped cars, he slipped a gold chain over his head and handed it to her. Thependant attached to it was a smooth, glassy, black rock. Obsidian. His name mightbe Rock or Peter or Black, but she decided to think of him as Obsidian. Even hersometimes useless memory would retain a name like Obsidian
There seem to be a riot or violence that happened throughout the city or town, this can also show how this led to the death of Rye’s family. Also when he man hands her a pendent, she picks a not normal name, being obsidian. Rye suggest that it was her bad memories that she gives him this nickname, but maybe she doesn’t want to be social, due to her careful nature, trauma and violence she faced. Maybe she doesn’t want to get familiar because she fears of losing something or someone
bearded man's revolver was on constant display. Apparently that was enoughfor the bus driver. The driver spat in disgust, glared at the bearded man for amoment longer, then strode back to his gas-filled
Rye explains that she never went unarmed after experiencing a situation, similar to the man, he had a gun, thus escalating the situation with the other person. Thus, this shows how these people are living, by using weapons to not only protect themselves but show superiority, which shows the man deescalating the conflict with the bus driver
There was no more LAPD, no more anylarge organization, governmental or private. There were neighborhood patrols andarmed individuals. That was all.
I think the government/police don’t watch that neighborhood anymore, maybe they were pushed out by the people and the neighborhood taken over by people, who arm themselves because of the lawless neighborhoods they live in. There being no law and order means there would be more crime, thus showing the reason behind for the violence around Rye and the reason behind her gun
She returned his gaze, very much aware of the old forty-five automatic her jacketconcealed. She watched his hands
This explains why Rye is so calm or able to react to some of the situations that had happened so far. She is not just careful of her environment but knows it very well to be carrying a weapon. Or maybe she had a experience with violence and traumatized by it to be carrying one
She intended to wait untilthe trouble was over and get on again, but if there was shooting, she wanted theprotection of a tree. Thus
This shows that Rye is a extremely cautious person, also in the beginning also shows how she is used to the violence that is happening, where she doesn’t seem fazed by the men fighting nor the bus driver’s actions, but instead act upon them by moving herself out of those situations.