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Quote #10
"[…] The pain was… I knew whatever this was would get worse, would kill me. But I had options. I came to you. When you told me that for my fellow countrymen, if they have to suffer this, they simply die…" The Colonel's face turned hard, and Ghosh could not be sure if it was anger or if he was holding back tears. He cleared his throat. "It was a crime to close my brother's health care center." (2.1.31)
The suffering that Mebratu feels with his stomach problem is intense. But, again, he's able to understand that suffering and recognize that even though he was in great pain, he still had the option to get good treatment for it; the majority of Ethiopians, without adequate care, would have just died in that situation. Through suffering he finds solidarity, which inspires him to revolt against the emperor.