We learn about a small village where most of the houses had been burned to the ground and there was pretty much nothing left. You hear nothing because there "was no music" but still you see this young girl dancing "with her eyes half closed, her feet bare." We are told that her entire family had been burned and she was the only one left in the entire village. Throughout the story she doesn't stop dancing, she does "a graceful movement with her hips" and moves right and left, back and forth. When they were leaving they thought maybe it was some weird ritual, but Henry Dobbins explained that she "just liked to dance."
This shows how humans can find happiness even in times of despair and when all hope has been lost. We have the ability to block out things we don't want to know, or choose to forget. Sometimes it works for the better but other times its just stalling from the brutal spiral to the ground.
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