Question

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which two lines of text in this excerpt from william dean howellss \editha\ demonstrate the authors opposition to conventional ideas of patriotism?

o, you didnt expect him to get killed,\ mrs. gearson repeated in a voice which was startlingly like georges again. \you just expected him to kill someone else, some of those foreigners, that werent there because they had any say about it, but because they had to be there, poor wretches—conscripts, or whatever they call em. you thought it would be all right for my george, your george, to kill the sons of those miserable mothers and the husbands of those girls that you would never see the faces of.\ the woman lifted her powerful voice in a psalm - like note. \i thank my god he didnt live to do it! i thank my god they killed him first, and that he aint livin with their blood on his hands!\ she dropped her eyes which she had raised with her voice, and glared at editha. \what you got that black on for?\ she lifted herself by her powerful arms so high that her helpless body seemed to hang limp its full length. \take it off, take it off, before i tear it from your back!\

Explanation:

These lines challenge the conventional patriotic view that glorifies soldiers killing enemy combatants, instead framing the foreign fighters as powerless victims and celebrating that the protagonist did not participate in killing them, directly opposing the typical pro-war patriotism of the era.

Answer:

1. "You just expected him to kill someone else, some of those foreigners, that weren't there because they had any say about it, but because they had to be there, poor wretches—conscripts, or whatever they call 'em."
2. "I thank my God he didn't live to do it! I thank my God they killed him first, and that he ain't livin' with their blood on his hands!"