Disgrace Flashcards

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Rebellion

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David thinks new SA is a disgrace

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Rebellion

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Always a disgrace - rapist to crazy man

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Rebellion

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Bill, best person in book gets cheated on. Lucy gets raped

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Apartheid

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Darkest Africa

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Apartheid

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The wound is alive with white grubs waving their blind heads in the air - will still have an effect in future (reproduction), whites helpless without blacks

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David

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Do you need me here any longer

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David

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Her smile rather than shy - knows what she’s getting into

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David

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Rape, not quite rape - defines himself as an intruder

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David

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The two of them in the same bed: an experience fit for a king - insincere apology

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David

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Anointed - he’s doing her a favor, God like

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David

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A ready learner, compliant, pliant - sexist, abusive, likes obedience, takes autonomy away

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David

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A mad old man who sits among the dogs singing to himself - disgrace for intellectual to be here

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David

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As an ensemble, remarkably unattractive - tries to find flaws in Bev

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David

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A great deceiver and a great self-deceiver - doesn’t know self

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Bildungsroman

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Explain - novel with growth

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Bev shaw

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Dumpy, bustling woman with black freckles and no neck - obsession with outside, not inside

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Bill shaw

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What are friends for? - best person in book, gets cheated on

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Lucy

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From the shade of the stope Lucy emerges into the sunlight

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Lucy

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Lucy’s bare toes grip the red earth, leaving clear prints - passion, trailblazer, skills, confidence

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Lucy

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Lighting the way, bearing the offering - she was raped, going to rapist, she’s the offering, reversal, he was alight, she was the offering

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Lucy

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I am prepared to do anything, make any sacrifice, for the sake of peace