How I Live Now Foreignness and "The Other" Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

He ignored him and kept shouting stuff about Johnny Foreigner being an Effing Bastard and worse. (1.20.X—p.104)

Another wartime classic is people thinking that everyone and their mom wants to hear their opinion about the war and the Enemy and whatnot. Here, Joe's shouting is the equivalent of an elementary school recess screaming match—totally lacking in maturity, and failing to acknowledge any potential similarities between the two sides.

Quote #5

Now The Enemy was going house to house and killing anyone they didn't like the look of. (1.21.7)

More rumors about that evil Enemy—now they're apparently running through the neighborhoods killing people willy nilly. Color us skeptical, but we're highly doubtful of Daisy's third-hand account of what's going down. We're pretty sure this is the British people's attempt at garnering more hatred for the outsiders.

Quote #6

Most of The Enemy know they're never going home again and don't have a heck of a lot to live for. (1.22.12)

Aw, sad—poor Enemy. Though we have to wonder again about the accuracy of this statement. Is the Enemy legitimately well on their way to losing the war and their lives? Or is it another Western of course we're better sort of situation—you know, where the Enemy is probably over in their camp believing the exact same thing about themselves?