You don' unerstand. Over there you don't belong to yourself. Everybody has a hold on you. Everybody runs your life. You can't do anything without everybody knowing it.
Rural towns are like that here too.
And if there's something that needs doing, you'll do it if they want you to. No it wasn't that. They made me do it. They drew lots, an' picked me, so I did it. They must have been driven by desperation.