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The Vast Hell

t At the end of the story the town is searching for the French woman and the young man, but end up digging up a mass grave. This grave was most likely the result of a dictatorship where a community was slaughtered in order to “keep the peace.” The people of the town ended up reburying the bodies and agreeing to never speak of the grave, which leads us to believe the Dictatorial administration is still in power trying to control the populace.

There are reports of dictators in South America preforming acts of terror in order to stay in power and continue to suppress the people. There are stories of people being kidnapped, tortured, imprisoned and of people being taken never to be seen again. An example of a Dictator who was known for doing such acts was Jorge Rafael Videla. Jorge was also known for imprisoning pregnant women and taking their babies and having people from his military adopt them. Many people like Jorge have been in power all over the globe, using force to suppress the people and resorting to violence if anyone speaks out.

This shoe box contains sand representing the area near the town in the story that the bodies were found. In the sand is a collection of hearts that represent all the people that have been lost as a result of these cruel acts. If you look and interact with the box you will notice that only 4 of the hearts have something attached so you know where they are, and you can pull them out. What you do not see are all the other hearts buried in the sand that are unknown, these represent those lost that were never found.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Rafael_Videla#Human_rights_violations