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[...] She thus offers the reader the desolate picture of being a witness to this confrontation and this territorial and cultural uprooting. Monica Sabolo finally addresses the hypocrisy of a Western world that is unreasonable, whose actions and perceptions of the world are nourished by a properly supremacist vision when she evokes the distorted white man, ""satisfied» and posing « arms crossed » before the photographer. She thus evokes the idea of a specific civilizational culture, which reinforces a one-dimensional reading of its perceptions of the world just as it appears plunged into a bad good conscience of its actions and motivations. [...]
[...] This excerpt first of all carries the idea of a disturbing and devouring presence in a world in transition. It opposes, in fact, in a clever game of narrative construction, a traditional society based on archaic foundations, in which the patriarchal model structures the presence in the world. We thus discover, through the voice of the young narrator, a traditional way of life, made possible by the game of a zero focalization, for which the of a thought that inscribes itself in a collective interest still exists. [...]
[...] But she mainly describes an unequal fight, lost from the start by advancing the struggledesperate» despite, gathered and facingwithout end» in communal halls, the delegates of these forestry companies. By the use of an elegant plus-que-parfait, she evokes thesilent marches » whatthere had been », translating especially the imbalance and powerlessness of some, operating a striking contrast with thegrowls » and 'shudders » invading material from others, drawing the reader into a space immediately dominated by a sonic as well as technical supremacy. In doing so, the narrator, through a writing style that alternates between narrative and discourse and brings elements together in a learned order, saves its effects, creating contrasts with the help of temporal markers judiciously placed, set in apposition like this "since », drawing the various events into a correlation and a desired organization by the author, displaying the facts and acts as if to better balance his demonstration. [...]
[...] In doing so, she conveys the idea of a common belonging and especially, of the same suffering in the face of the test. The narrator also highlights her inscription in a traditional family society and culture, evoking in turn her mother » then the struggles of (her) fathers». If indigenous tribes form an entity that seems indissoluble, the author mainly gives to read, a disturbing annexation, expressed mainly by a figure of metonymy sonorous and sly making simple machines, the "chainsaws », the symbols of a material territorial power grab, insinuating themselves through repeated noise and action ""day after day », right into the heads of beings. [...]
[...] Similarly, through the turns of a precise vocabulary, it provides enlightened knowledge on the structures, functioning, and lines of force of modern civilizations. The young narrator thus makes the unilateral role of a powerful centralized government readable. Further on, through the image of the 'rilles of the Congress », she evokes the purely administrative aptitudes for 'validate » and "" adopt » of decisions, all the while arguing further of the same """assurances » of this government as to the quality of the water judged to be ""remained potable » despite good sense, that is to say, despite a leak ofthousands of litres of crude oil and a population embarked on 'sexpeditions increasingly farther afield", " » in search of water and armed with 'plastic seals ». [...]
