How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph), (Chapter.Figure)
Quote #10
"But I'm giving you a chance to make the right choice. If you carry the banner today at the Pioneers rally, everybody will be looking at you and thinking, There goes Sasha Zaichik; he's one of us again [...] If you chose [sic] not to, I'll be talking to you in the basement of Lubyanka prison." (28.21)
Carrying the banner of the Young Soviet Pioneers would be the ultimate display of conformity and Sasha's acceptance by The Powers That Be. This action would re-integrate him back into the school's community after his outcast status has been so rudely revealed to everyone.