giuseppe - roderick ford Flashcards

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irregular stanzas

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reflect the irregular behaviour of the humans

all capable of atrocity

lying is pointless

4 stanzas - lie

2 stanzas - lie being broken down

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enjambment

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emphasises contradiction

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title

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pinnochio

don’t lie

turns human

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caesura

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stopping to question actions

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’ in the courtyard behind the aquarium where the bougainvillea grows so well’

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spatial deixis - hidden , secret

beautiful imagery contrasts nature of war and conflict

bougainvillea symbolises honesty and welcoming

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‘butchered on the dry and dusty ground’

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links to animals - dehumanising

alliteration - folklore of italy - volcanic eruptions

metaphor for the moral aridity that will be evident in the story

death - fish need water

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‘a doctor, a fishmonger and certain others’

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society’s atrocity

anyone can be inhumane

asyndetic list

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‘she,it had never learned to speak’

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personal pronoun - half human

self correction - convince himself

not human - dehumanised - not human, not relevant

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‘simple, or so they’d said’

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is it true

doubtful

removing himself from situation

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‘priest who held one of her hands’

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humane act

connection, unity

intimate

guilt

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‘throat was cut’

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brutal

say one thing, do the other

good vs evil

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‘screamed like a woman in terrible fear’

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simile - they have created it

she’s human

remorseful and ashamed deep down

emphasises her human like nature

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‘ripe golden roe’

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caviar

‘golden’ - precious

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‘an egg is not a child’

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declarative

contradicts catholic view

mimics nazi propaganda - basic and prosaic

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‘but refused when some was offered to him’

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disjunction emphasises contradiction

guilty

knows he’s lying

morality vs survival

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‘head and her hands’

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alliteration

most human parts

realised she didn’t deserve it - trying to make things better

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‘tried to take her wedding ring’

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start of a new life

links to the holocaust

human ceremony

symbol of their unified decision

how people came together during war for the sake of humanity-possibly a symbol that explains her expectation of protection from harm - a call of her humanity

ford wants to show how people support one another for the wrong reasons and then experience personal conflicts of morality

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‘the rest they cooked and fed to the troops’

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cannibalism

shorter stanza, suggesting more bluntness. lost for words - can’t come to terms with what they’ve done

ironic - hero at something so violent

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‘they said a large fish had been found of the beach’

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false justification

lying

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‘but he couldn’t look me in the eye, for which i thank god’

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uncle does inhumane things

guilt, connection - truth

shows remorse

20
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headlines

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in conflict sides can often act unjustly

a small good act cannot justify an atrocity

inhumane acts can never be justified

how war can shift the perspective on what is humane

atrocities haunt the generations to come

the gruesome nature of humanity

the appearance of something can be deceptive to the reality of it

malicious acts are justified by pretending there were no other choices

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tone

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gruesome, ruthless, inhumane, dark, guilty

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themes

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atrocities, war, humanity, fantasy, conflict