his life to the Red Cross woman when she invited him to her home. The man, hesitant, eventually spoke of the mental and physical battle that he went through in Czechoslovakia. He told the woman this because he felt that Americans did not live real life brutal experiences and since he felt they see freedom as a "careless dress", ( W. G. Hardy, pg. 172 ). Babka choses never to speak of what happened in her life long ago. Instead she in her room all day watching childrens television shows. She refuses to speak to her family or any other person in the country, she is still in touch with her friends in Poland. This is bacause Babka feels no connection with her son or her grandchildren. She also has little knowledge of the English language. The man now helps his country by working for the Underground. Babka does nothing to aid her native land. The Czech man and Babka both had contact with brutality during the Second World War. The man had a life in Czechoslovakia as a respected physician, he also had a wife. During the war, German

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