Lines 1-8 How would you describe the characterand his state of mind? The Briefcase.
"He thought how strange that a political prisoner, marched through town in a line, chained to the man behind and chained to the man ahead, should take comfort in the fact that all this had happened before. He thought of other chains of men on their islands of the earth, and he thought how since there have been men there have been prisoners. He thought of mankind as a line of miserable monkeys chained at the wrists, dragging each others back into the ground."