giuseppe - roderick ford Flashcards
irregular stanzas
reflect the irregular behaviour of the humans
all capable of atrocity
lying is pointless
4 stanzas - lie
2 stanzas - lie being broken down
enjambment
emphasises contradiction
title
pinnochio
don’t lie
turns human
caesura
stopping to question actions
’ in the courtyard behind the aquarium where the bougainvillea grows so well’
spatial deixis - hidden , secret
beautiful imagery contrasts nature of war and conflict
bougainvillea symbolises honesty and welcoming
‘butchered on the dry and dusty ground’
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
‘a doctor, a fishmonger and certain others’
society’s atrocity
anyone can be inhumane
asyndetic list
‘she,it had never learned to speak’
personal pronoun - half human
self correction - convince himself
not human - dehumanised - not human, not relevant
‘simple, or so they’d said’
is it true
doubtful
removing himself from situation
‘priest who held one of her hands’
humane act
connection, unity
intimate
guilt
‘throat was cut’
brutal
say one thing, do the other
good vs evil
‘screamed like a woman in terrible fear’
simile - they have created it
she’s human
remorseful and ashamed deep down
emphasises her human like nature
‘ripe golden roe’
caviar
‘golden’ - precious
‘an egg is not a child’
declarative
contradicts catholic view
mimics nazi propaganda - basic and prosaic
‘but refused when some was offered to him’
disjunction emphasises contradiction
guilty
knows he’s lying
morality vs survival
‘head and her hands’
alliteration
most human parts
realised she didn’t deserve it - trying to make things better
‘tried to take her wedding ring’
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
‘the rest they cooked and fed to the troops’
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
‘they said a large fish had been found of the beach’
false justification
lying
‘but he couldn’t look me in the eye, for which i thank god’
uncle does inhumane things
guilt, connection - truth
shows remorse
headlines
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
tone
gruesome, ruthless, inhumane, dark, guilty
themes
atrocities, war, humanity, fantasy, conflict
