The Moon Is Down Resistance Quotes

In 1966 while addressing the oppression of blacks in South Africa robert Kennedy said “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” this quote is important to every resistance movement because it teaches that the smallest acts of resistance can lead greater victories. In his book The Moon Is Down,author John Steinbeck, writes about a small town invaded by the nazis (the Invaders). The small town had little resources to fight their enemies. However, through resistance

War of attrition means breaking down the enemy by resisting over and over and eventually making them give in. One example of war of attrition in the book is when the soldiers dynamo for the soldiers base gets wrecked over and over again by people in the town. Lieutenant Tonder describes his frustration when he says ““I hate these damn lanterns major, when are we going to get the dynamo fixed” (Page 62) this act of resistance was successful because the soldiers were forced to use so much energy on such a small tasks that it tired them out and subjected them to further attacks. Another time in the book that the people use war of attrition is when the citizens of the town start planting small bombs around the soldiers supplies and work areas. The Invaders were completely paralyzed by these attacks because the bombs were too small to see. We see how this affected the Invaders when Colonel Lanser admits “They can drop as many as they want and we can't stop it and I can't hold it against them” (pg. 92) Even though the bombs could not do so much damage individually when they were set off in mass amounts they proved to be very successful. War of attrition proved to be an effective type of resistance for the town because even though they could not carry out big acts of resistance, by doing enough small attacks they were able to gradually defeat the