Racism

Question 1

‘the handkerchief turn black’

‘wiping his face with a clean white handkerchief’

Answer 1

idea of black creating blackness

Question 2

‘they invading the country’

Answer 2

context

- lack of sympathy in the media

Question 3

TLL: ‘tolroy growl’
‘beast winter
‘ a sign telling you to keep off’

Answer 3

HoD: ‘wagged to and fro like tails’

‘they howled and leaped’

Question 4

‘you not feeling cold old man?’

Answer 4

internal racism- structurally previous pave same sentence

Question 5

‘a sign telling you to keep off’

Answer 5

like dogs

Question 6

TLL: ‘we is British subjects’

1948 immigration act gave west Indian citizenship but still treat badly

Answer 6

HoD: ‘philanthropic desire’ = context

Question 7

“savages” as “black shadows” and “moribund shapes”

Answer 7

attaches a sense of incorporeality to their bodies.
Conrad’s description estranges human bodies from the reader
makes common incomprehensible- defamiliarises reader from habitual ways of perceiving their surrounding world