What difference is the speaker trying to show in the two lines that start with but in I ask my mother to sing

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.

b. the colonies must seek protection from other nations.

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i am a strong (insert gender here) my father and his brother were to, they were killed not by the cold, not by the bears or wolves that roam our streets at night, but by the   bolsheviks. we must stand up and fight communism or we all end up dead, starved dehydrated, enslaved. the time is now we must fight. lenin is a dangerous man but he can be stopped. so my comrades we shall siege there weapons tonight on ward. (rides away with ak(not invented yet) and sword in hand while on bear into snowstorm)