Marrakech Main Points

Question 1

Intro

Question 1

Poverty

Answer 1

Opening sentence
Tone
“As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, they came back a few minutes later”
Symbol of death
Sympathy
Structure
Word choice of “rags”

Question 2

Public gardens

Answer 2

Gardens represent
“I was feeding one of the gazelles in the public gardens”
Structure, comparison
“I could eat some of that bread”
Use of evidence
Tone
“I tore off a piece and he stowed it gratefully in some secret place under his rags”
First person perspective
Word choice “rags”
“An employee of municipality”

Question 3

Treatment of Jews

Answer 3

Jewish people forced to live
“When you go through the Jewish quarters you gather some idea of what the medieval ghettos were probably like.”
Structure
Tone “medieval ghettoes”
Pity and anger
Comparison
Sympathy
Orwell can see the truth
Domino effect

Question 4

Treatment of women

Answer 4

Ways they live and how they are perceived
Women
Animals mistreatment is perceived
“One day a poor old creature who could not have been more than four feet tall crept past me under a vast load of wood” anecdote
Inferior beings
“Crept”
Social norms
Compassion and sympathetic
“This kind of thing makes one’s blood boil, whereas -on the whole - the plight of the human beings does not” Comparison
Emphasises how horrendously women have it
Readers understanding and commiseration
Links to inequalities

Question 5

Soldiers

Answer 5

Extreme mistreatment
Conditions, situations, perspective
Vivid description sympathy
Anecdote “As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward”
Expressing tone upcoming threats
Eye meets soldiers “Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.”
“Not” predicted
“How much longer can we go on kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?” rhetorical question
Own stance uprising
Techniques justice and sympathy
White birds

Question 6

Conclusion

Question 7

Poverty quotes

Answer 7

“As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, they came back a few minutes later”
“corpse”

Question 8

Public gardens quotes

Answer 8

“I was feeding one of the gazelles in the public gardens”
“I could eat some of that bread”
“I tore off a piece and he stowed in gratefully in some secret place under his rags” first person perspective
“Rags”
“an employee of the Municipality”

Question 9

Treatment of Jews quotes

Answer 9

“When you go through the Jewish quarters you gather some idea of what the medieval ghettos were probably like.”
“medieval ghettoes”

Question 10

Treatment of women quotes

Answer 10

“One day a poor old creature who could not have been more than four feet tall crept past me under a vast load of wood”
“crept”
“This kind of thing makes one’s blood boil, whereas -on the whole - the plight of the human beings does not”

Question 11

Soldiers quotes

Answer 11

“As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward”
“Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.”
“How much longer can we go on kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?”