Doris Lessing - Para 1 Flashcards
who was she?
a prolific writer who challenged the milieu of her times, living through the Russian Revolution, both World Wars, the Cold War and others that followed.
what did she do when she won the nobel prize in 2007?
she used the kairos of her acceptance speech to highlight social and education inequity issues to a worldwide audience
what does it reveal as these same message transcend today?
proving the endurance of her message but the unfortunate lack of progress to abolish inequality of opportunity in our modern age.
how was she able to immediately challenge her audience’s expectations of the occasion ?
with abrupt and immersive anecdotal descriptions.
These stories deliberately compares ?
the differences in conditions surrounding, and attitudes towards, education between third and first world countries, provoking necessary guilt in the privileged audience and appealing to their pathos.
what does she describe through the direct and didactic tone?
Lessing describes the condition of school in Africa
The accumulation and repetition of “no” in ?
“no atlas or glove in school, no textbooks, no exercise books, or biros”
what does accumulation of no exemplify?
exemplifies the deprivation from education and the gulf of opportunity between the elite London school she mentions later.
how is such gulf shown?
attitudes towards books, “Everybody I met, everyone, begged for books” and “pupils walked many miles every morning, rain or shine and across rivers.” and the juxtaposing depiction of a London boys school library being “not even half-used”.
Lessing used the hyperbole and repetition of “everyone” to?
exaggerate this hunger for reading, in hopes that the audience realises that education is a shared, global responsibility
. Thus through language features and rhetoric, Lessing is able to ?
artfully display her attitudes and values of the importance of literature and equity that resonate with audiences and given them lasting merit.
