This cartoon portrays resistance as the shadow of occupation. It does not emerge from nothing, but as a response to the conditions created by occupation. Just as a shadow follows a body as long as there is light, resistance will persist as long as occupation exists.

Symbolically, the disappearance of resistance would therefore require one of two things: either the occupation disappears, removing the cause that created resistance, or the light itself disappears, leaving the world in darkness. The cartoon uses this visual metaphor to suggest that demanding the end of resistance while occupation continues is like demanding that a shadow disappear while the body that casts it remains standing in the light.