* As for Philip's revelations, it's really depressing. I don't buy the "we're just nobodies" line. Until now we saw Philip as the victim, but now we learn that he (or his father), were the perpetrators. I don't know if or why guards really weren't paid enough to feed their families, but in any case, Philip was not hounded by gangs for nothing. Philip killed children whose only crime was doing their little part in standing up to state persecution, possibly against their own parents.
That seems an odd way to describe it even if they were the sons of prisoners. Philip's father would have been dead for years by the time those kids were beating him up and he didn't even know he was a guard. Seems more like they were just perpetuating a feud or getting revenge. (We don't know how Philip's family was living after he died--maybe mom married another guard?) Philip himself doesn't seem to have realized he was a tool of the state. Unless he's blocked it out.
In any case, that was a pretty ironic ending for them if that's what they did. They picked out a kid several years younger than they were to fight back against the state and the kid, without any help from the KGB, beat their brains out.
* I didn't get the part with the key - was Elizabeth preparing a key for later?
Yes, she was "sooting" the key, putting soot on it that would get rubbed off when she put it in the lock. That would mark it to make a copy later.
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Re: Treon's thoughts
Date: 2017-04-13 04:59 pm (UTC)That seems an odd way to describe it even if they were the sons of prisoners. Philip's father would have been dead for years by the time those kids were beating him up and he didn't even know he was a guard. Seems more like they were just perpetuating a feud or getting revenge. (We don't know how Philip's family was living after he died--maybe mom married another guard?) Philip himself doesn't seem to have realized he was a tool of the state. Unless he's blocked it out.
In any case, that was a pretty ironic ending for them if that's what they did. They picked out a kid several years younger than they were to fight back against the state and the kid, without any help from the KGB, beat their brains out.
Yes, she was "sooting" the key, putting soot on it that would get rubbed off when she put it in the lock. That would mark it to make a copy later.