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The Sergeant and One Eye (who wears an eye patch) are the Catholic soldiers who capture Swiss Cheese during the third scene. Mother Courage tries and fails to buy Swiss Cheese’ freedom from One Eye with Yvette Pottier’s help, and then the Sergeant brings her Swiss Cheese’s body at the end of the scene to determine if she knows him.
The Sergeant and One Eye Quotes in Mother Courage and Her Children
The Mother Courage and Her Children quotes below are all either spoken by The Sergeant and One Eye or refer to The Sergeant and One Eye. 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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Scene 3
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SERGEANT. There’s a man here we don’t know the name of, but he has to be registered to keep the records straight. He bought a meal from you. Look at him. See if you know him. (He draws back the sheet.) You know him? (MOTHER COURAGE shakes her head.) What? You never saw him before he bought that meal? (MOTHER COURAGE shakes her head.) Lift him up. Throw him on the garbage dump. He has no one that knows him.
(They carry him off.)
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The Sergeant and One Eye Quotes in Mother Courage and Her Children
The Mother Courage and Her Children quotes below are all either spoken by The Sergeant and One Eye or refer to The Sergeant and One Eye. 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:
).
Scene 3
Quotes
SERGEANT. There’s a man here we don’t know the name of, but he has to be registered to keep the records straight. He bought a meal from you. Look at him. See if you know him. (He draws back the sheet.) You know him? (MOTHER COURAGE shakes her head.) What? You never saw him before he bought that meal? (MOTHER COURAGE shakes her head.) Lift him up. Throw him on the garbage dump. He has no one that knows him.
(They carry him off.)
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