"It had not entered into our hearts to believe that these friends and allies from the United States, even with all their foreign affinities, would ever go so far as to absolutely overthrow our form of government, seize our nation by the throat, and pass it over to an alien power."
This sentence is my favorite because it really illustrates the extreme betrayal and hurt that the Hawaiian people experienced from how the United States treated them. It shows that they were completely taken by surprise because they thought of the U.S. as friends of the Hawaiian people, then they were just stabbed in the back. I think what makes this sentence so powerful is the strong intense words that the Queen uses to describe the situation such as "absolutely overthrow" and"seize our nation by the throat." It makes the reader feel the same betrayal and shock as the Queen and her people.
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