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Bruno, Chief of Police: A Novel of the French Countryside
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How does Bruno’s past trauma in Bosnia inform the moral framework that leads him to subvert state law in favor of community-based justice in St. Denis?
How does Walker’s narrative structure, which delays the reveal of a historical motive for Hamid al-Bakr’s murder, reinforce the novel’s argument about The Impact of the Past on the Present?
Examine the symbolic inversion of both the Croix de Guerre medal and the swastika. How do these two symbols work in tandem to critique the reliability of official narratives and expose the gap between a person’s public identity and their hidden history?
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