How we cite our quotes: (Poem.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"We blew them all to hell. We should've dropped bombs on all the rest and blown them off the face of the earth." (IX.20)
Emo fantasizes about genocide here. In case it wasn't obvious by now, he's not a nice guy.
Quote #8
"Strongest thing on this earth. Biggest explosion that ever happened—that's what the newspaper said. [ . . . ] Now I only wonder why, grandson. Why did they make a thing like that?" (XXV.219)
Old Grandma can't fathom why anyone would want a bomb as powerful as the nuclear one she saw detonated at Trinity Site. If you think about it, her naive questions are actually pretty profound. Why would anyone want to use a bomb like that? This whole novel is sort of an attempt to answer that question.