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”How long you been on duty?” “All night. Can’t hardly keep my eyes open.”
“Me too. Hear from your wife on the boat yesterday?”
“Yes She said hello to you. Said she heard you was wounded. She don’t write much.”
“Tell her I’m all right” 179. The fear and frustration of the Nazi soldiers indicate that the power of the Nazis is
not as strong as when they arrive in the town firstly. In chapter seven, the Nazi invaders find the townspeople’s bomb. At the
first, they do not realize that the bomb can bring them to the beating. “It’s silly. It’s commercial dynamite”156. Then, they realize that they are in danger
situation. The Nazi invaders become panic and all the soldiers can not think what they would do next to prevent those rebellions. They suggest several ways to
destroy the local people, but all those ways can not bring them to stabile condition again. “Loft said angrily, “We must do something There must be a way to control
this. What does headquarters say?” 180. Finally, they take the last ways. The Nazi invaders arrest some people who have great influence among the
community. They are Mayor Orden and Doctor Winter. They think that it will kill the spirit of the rebellions. The panic of the Nazi invaders symbolizes the end
of the reign of Nazi because they can not control the local people anymore. The cruelty of the Nazi invaders can not frighten the local people anymore.
e. Rebellions of the Townspeople
Actually the progress of the plot is fairly predictable. Mayor Orden makes a contact with the outside. He asks for help to Anders boys. Mayor Orden and
the Anders boys arrange the strategy to knock down the Nazi invaders easily without spending a lot of energy. The Mayor knows his people are weak because
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of the lack of food and they should work hard in the coal mining. Finally, Mayor Orden orders a secret weapon that can bomb important place for the Nazi
invaders. The secret weapon is easily to be used even ordinary people who have never experience in war can use it. The plane will spread those secret weapons so
that the Nazi invaders are not suspicious and do not know which citizens who have it. From the explanation above, finally, the local people can do the
resistance. When there is a rebellion beginning to arise, it is one of the indicators that the enemy is possible to be conquered.
The last way that the Nazi invaders take does not influence the confidence of people. The purpose of arresting Mayor Orden can not be accomplished. The
local people will still light the fuse. Even, if Mayor Orden commands not to light the fuse they will still light it. They are only sad if later the Mayor should sacrifice
his soul. Although the Nazi invaders intimidate the Mayor that they will kill him Mayor Orden will not beg his life to the local people. Finally, it indicates that
Nazis do not have power anymore to control people in the world. People will not give up destroying them.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This last chapter is divided into two parts, they are conclusions and suggestions. The conclusions consist of the answer to the formulated questions.
Whereas suggestions consist of two parts; they are suggestion for future researchers and suggestion for implementation of teaching learning process.
Suggestion for future researchers describes the use of the socio-historical approach for next researchers. The second suggestion concerns with the
implementation of literature in teaching extensive reading I.
A. Conclusions
Paralleling the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II, the story begins shortly after a coal-mining town is taken over by soldiers. The soldiers kill
half of the town’s twelve-man army. The invaders settle into Mayor Orden’s house, feeling pretty proud of them and genuinely looking forward to coexisting
peacefully with the people they have conquered. Their mistake, of course, is assumed that the invaders have conquered the
townspeople. Although initially confused and afraid, the town’s occupants are not as satisfied as the soldiers think. After they try and execute a man for killing one
of their members, the invaders realize they do not have the control that they count on. The troops begin to understand that the war they are fighting has already been
lost.
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