This section of the text gives the reader more information about Brik and Rora’s travels. When traveling from Ukraine to Moldova there is a scene where they are at the boarder and the guards are examining their passports. Both have American passports and Brik’s gets accepted with no problem. Rora’s passport on the other hand is a little shady; there are smudged stamps everywhere. Brik explains this trick, “washing your passport to cover up for the missing entry stamps” (180 Hemon). It is interesting the tactics that some immigrants must go through in order to get across a boarder. On this same page Brik and Rora observe another man who seems to have no passport, but is able to sweet talk and pay his way through the boarder.
We find out a lot of information about Rambo in this section. Rambo became such a powerful man because he would make deals and con his way into money. He was in the business of transporting Serb bodies across the boarder so that their families could give them proper burial. He made a lot of money this way, but because a liability for the government. Several attempts were made on his life until he was finally shot. This did not kill him however, and he was smuggled away, out of Sarajevo. Rora tells this story because he knows that if he ever goes back to a place where Rambo is that he will most likely be killed. Rora explains, “if he were to go to Sarajevo, Rambo might kill him. He could try to escape from Mostar via Medjugorje, go to Germany or somewhere, but he had no money, knew nobody there” (184 Hermon).
The other story that has been occurring with Lazarus and Olga has turned into a constant search for Isador. The police want to find Isador because they believe him to have been an anarchist accomplice to Lazarus. Olga has been hiding Isador at her house and you can tell that there may be some history between the two. When Miller comes by her house for an interview he is asking her many questions about the whereabouts of Lazarus’s body and where Isador is. She answers his questions simply and without much information, yet Miller exaggerates everything she seems to be saying. When Olga says, “Go away, Mr. Miller. Leave me”, he rights “Upon hearing the news, the Jewess wept: ‘Leave me alone to die with my grief. All I had in the world was my brother Lazarus and now he is lost forever—I cannot even talk to his grave. I am alone for eternity” (200 Hermon).
Definition:
Recalcitrant – resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory
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