Brooklyn cop Flashcards
What are the wider themes in Brooklyn Cop?
A modern city saturated with violence
Cops are the real threats
Societies creation of cop brutality for survival
Dehumanisation
The destructive nature of a violent society
What does MacCaig mean when he says “Built like a gorilla”?
The use of a simile is Suggesting the primitive and animal instincts of the cop with the thin line between civilised and savage.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “But less timid?
the use of irony emphasises the fact that the cop is more aggressive and intimidating than a gorilla it’s self.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “Thick- fleshed”?
MacCaig is using W.C. To suggest its animalistic connotations, again suggests the cop’s aggression and primitive tendencies.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “Steak coloured”?
Connotations are used for Suggesting the death, violence, blood and savagery the cop has seen as a result of his job.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “With two hieroglyphs in his face”?
Imagery is used to suggest the brutal and aggressive nature of the cop as well as not being able to read him.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “He walks the side walk and the thin tissue of violence”?
MacCaig uses a metaphor to show us that there’s not much in the way separating where he walks and the violence bubbling up as well as the as there’s very little holding the cops agression in.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “‘See you, babe’ he said to his wife,”?
MacCaig is using a cliche to emphasise that the cop has very little emotion towards his wife, not a modern man, doesn’t really appreciate her.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “He hoped it, he truly hoped it”?
MacCaig uses repetition to emphasis sincerity by showing the cops true emotions behind the façade, of concealing his humanity to survive. As well as Showing the danger of the streets and of his job - he might not see his wife again - might be killed.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “He is a gorilla”?
MacCaig uses a metaphor to suggest that we should not feel sorry for him because he’s as much of a threat as the criminals - he’s part of the problem, he may not be an aggressive person but because of the environment he works in he has to be aggressive.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “‘Hiya, honey’ is no cliché”?
With the pet name MacCaig is showing the contrast between the cops domestic and work life, with showing his emotions and being vulnerable with his wife and being cold and threatening at his job.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “Should the tissue tear”?
MacCaig uses an extended metaphor to emphasise just how easily it could be to break the barrier holding back the violence.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “Should he plunge through into violence”?
W.C Shows MacCaig starting to think how the cop could all of a sudden just emidatly snap suggesting that MacCaig thinks that’s gonna happen to the cop and is getting worried just waiting for it to happen.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “What clubbing, what gunshots”?
MacCaig is using a plural to emphasise that there are many and that this place is no more civilised than the cave men were with the clubbing to the more modern bangs of guns. And if you were on the clubbing side there’d be little chance of survival against the guns.
What does MacCaig mean when he says “Between Phoebe’s whambuger and Louie’s place”?
MacCaig uses a pun to emphasising that violence is happening everyday in America with great collateral damage happening.
