Marco quotes

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...if I stay there they will never grow up. They eat the sunshine.
Real sense of the poverty.
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Marco raises a hand to hush him...He is coming more and more to address Marco only.
Marco is the authority. He is more mature and respectable.
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--I want to send right away maybe twenty dollars--
Marco's duty to his family and his gratitude to Eddie.
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Marco, cautiously: Yes.
Marco is trying to avoid conflict. He is trying to warn Rodolpho off.
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Can you lift this chair?...He kneels, grasps, and with strain slowly raises the chair higher and higher, getting to his feet now.
Marco wants to challenge Eddie back, if you mess with Rodolpho, you mess with Marco too. Marco is showing strength for Rodolpho. Eddie is back in his place.
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Marco is face to face with Eddie...the chair raised like a weapon over Eddie's head...Eddie's grin vanishes.
Marco threatens Eddie. It's a challenge. It has lots of impact on the play.
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Marco spits into Eddie's face. That one! I accuse that one!
Massive insult. Marco makes it clear so that everyone knows it was Eddie.
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He killed my children! That one stole the food from my children!
What Eddie has done will kill Marco's children. Innocent suffer.
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In my country he would be dead now. He would not live this long.
Moral justice.
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Marco is silent.
Marco cannot agree to not take revenge on Eddie.
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All the law is not in a book.
Nothing can be done to Eddie legally. There is justice above and beyond the law.
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Marco lowers his eyes. It almost seems he is ashamed.
Marco cannot take revenge. Opposite of pride is shame.
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Animal! You go on your knees to me!...Anima-a-a-l!
Submission, pride and honour. Eddie is going against everything Marco knows about being a human in society.
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...the knife still in his hand, falls to his knees before Marco.
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

Marco is the authority. He is more mature and respectable.

Back

Marco raises a hand to hush him...He is coming more and more to address Marco only.

Card 3

Front

Marco's duty to his family and his gratitude to Eddie.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Marco is trying to avoid conflict. He is trying to warn Rodolpho off.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Marco wants to challenge Eddie back, if you mess with Rodolpho, you mess with Marco too. Marco is showing strength for Rodolpho. Eddie is back in his place.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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