9 "Marrakech" quotes

Question 1

Sentence Structure: the process/stages of the burial
Word Choice: the seemingly callous treatment of the corpse
Simile: the poor quality of the earth
POVERTY

Answer 1

“When the friends get to the burying-ground they hack an oblong hole a foot or two deep, dump the body in it and fling over it a little of the dried up lumpy earth, which is like broken brick.”

Question 2

Word Choice: treatment of bread, valuable and precious to the Arab Navvy
POVERTY

Answer 2

“I tore of a piece and he stowed it gratefully in some secret place under his rags. This man is an employee of the municipality.”

Question 3

Dialogue: Evidence, exploits poor Europeans ignorance to illustrate racism, suspicious and vitriolic response
DISCRIMINATION

Answer 3

“Ah, that’s only for show! They’re all money-lenders really. They’re cunning, the Jews.”

Question 4

Comparison: emphasises how unjustly the Jews are treated, absurd and illogical reasoning
Tone: light-hearted, mocking
DISCRIMINATION

Answer 4

“In the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal.”

Question 5

Word Choice/Imagery: depicts how the women are viewed as inferior, sub human, dehumanised.
ANONYMITY

Answer 5

“She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say a beast of burden.”

Question 6

Sentence Structure; Anti-Climatic: emphasises the amount of insignificant aspects of the Moroccan scenery compared to the undesirable native struggling in deprivation
ANONYMITY

Answer 6

“It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.”

Question 7

Statement: Orwell establishes early on in the opening anecdote his views on colonialism by detailing the deprivation, race hierarchy and anonymity in Marrakech and how these flaws contribute to the system of oppression.
COLONIALISM

Answer 7

“All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.”

Question 8

Repetition: shocked and saddened by the soldiers acceptance of their oppression, bleak, solemn tone.
COLONIALISM, DISCRIMINATION

Answer 8

“Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.”

Question 9

Rhetorical Question: forces the reader to engage with this idea considering the likelihood of it happening and its and the possible consequences
COLONIALISM

Answer 9

“How much longer can we go on kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?”