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Prompt: In paragraphs 60-64 of Lily Yu's "The Wretched and the Beautiful," how does the resolution of the story reveal a critique of humanity?
Text:
"We must ask the aliens themselves what they want," the woman said, but now her colleagues were standing too, and shouting, and phone lines were ringing as we called in support of the beautiful ones, and her voice was drowned out.
"We have an understanding, then," the beautiful ones said, to clamorous agreement and wild applause.
The cameras stopped there, at that glorious scene, and all of us, warm and satisfied with our participation in history, turned off our televisions and went to work, or to pick up our children from soccer, or to bed, or to the liquor store to gaze at top-shelf whiskey.
A few of us, the unfortunate few who lived beside the aliens, saw the long silver needles descend point-first onto our neighbors' lawns and the silver shapes emerge with chains and glowing rods. We twitched the kitchen curtains closed and dialed up our music. Three hours later there was no sign of any of the aliens, the wretched or the beautiful, except for a few blackened patches of grass and wisps of smoke that curled and died.
All was well.
Thesis: In the resolution of "The Wretched and the Beautiful," the humans' behavior reveals Yu's critique that people have a tendency to look away from the suffering of others in order to maintain normalcy.
