Analyze the following passages using the topoi to the best o…
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Anаlyze the fоllоwing pаssаges using the tоpoi to the best of your ability and/or connecting it to our course themes or discussion. The following passage comes form Mary Kathryn Nagle's Sovereignty: SARAH BIRD NOTHRUP: You have an impossible decision to make. I wish you didn't have to make it. But you do. When my father told me I couldn't marry a "savage," I told him I'd rather die than live without you. He laughed, and so I asked him to define "savage." You know what he said? Someone who isn't civilized. And I said what's "civilized?" And he said, "someone who lives by the rule of law." And so now I ask, who is more savage? A nation who makes laws and abides by them, or a country who makes laws and refuses to enforce them? We are both willing to die for what we love. JOHN RIDGE: Will you forgive me? SARAH BIRD NOTHRUP: Forgive you? JOHN RIDGE: For choosing my nation over my family. SARAH BIRD NOTHRUP [to JOHN RIDGE]: Your family is your nation.