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The final guard is the unnamed border officer who finally allows the narrator and his mother to cross the border into the U.S. With the lights of the camera crew shining on him, he appears to sweat as he realizes that he’s being watched. When she answers “Blackfoot” to his citizenship question, he at last accepts her answer and wishes them a good trip to the United States.
The Final Guard Quotes in Borders
The Borders quotes below are all either spoken by The Final Guard or refer to The Final Guard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Borders Quotes
The guard who came out to our car was all smiles. The television lights were so bright they hurt my eyes, and, if you tried to look through the windshield in certain directions, you couldn’t see a thing.
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The Final Guard Character Timeline in Borders
The timeline below shows where the character The Final Guard appears in Borders. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Borders
The narrator’s mother pulls the car up to the American border crossing. A final guard emerges from the border office and looks at the cameras and lights surrounding the car....
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