these passages about the divine, that God allows violent actions to

这些关于预言的片断中的感受上帝允许暴力行为
occur without seeming cause, without reason,

看似没有根据的发生没有理由的发生
and it's up to the human beings to try to stitch stories together that

而这取决于人类试图把故事拼合在一起
can make sense of them.

来使它们变得有意义
And Mary, in this passage, chooses to be angry at America,

而在这片断中的玛丽选择对美国发怒
instead chooses America as the story that will unify these deaths

而不是选择视美国为一个能够统一这些亡灵的故事
even in a negative way.

即使以一种消极的方式
It doesn't offer consolation, exactly, but at least it offers a

上帝不提供慰藉这是肯定的但至少它提供了一个
target for her anger.

供她生气的对象
And, now I just want to see on 176, to look at this with you.

现在我来看一百七十六页你们一起来看
In addition to these tiny thematic visits to some of these questions

除了这些小的主题谈及了关于结合故事的这些问题
throughout the novel, the question of stitching together--

小说通篇中关于结合在一起的问题