Each of these defensive missiles maybe only about 10 feet long but has some 24 pounds of high explosives and when they're close enough they detonate, obliterating everything in that part of the sky.
Being the least analytic of people, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteen years of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.
The white men in Jamestown devised a plan that they would kidnap her and use her as leverage, to stop Chief Powhatan from completely obliterating the colony.
We have an idea of who we are and what we're like, and when this is challenged we can experience a feeling of being obliterated, a sense of loss of self.