The Deep South Cat

Question 1

‘A phone is ringing in the hall. A negro voice answers’

Answer 1

Discrimatory vocative- Negro. determiner ‘A’ SD. Few times audience hear from and African American voice. Detatched tone. determiner suggests lack of identity/importance

Question 2

‘I can’t stand TV, radio was bad enough but TV has gone it one better’

Answer 2

TV and radio symbols of modernity. radio connects humans to sound, TV to sound and image but BM is rejecting this

Question 3

‘My family freed their slaves ten years before abolition’

Answer 3

Possessive determiner ‘my’ and determiner ‘their’- Maggie point to the specific movements of the old South’s past

Question 4

‘Big Mama, the livers affected and so’s the kidneys, both! It’s gone way past what they call a-‘

Answer 4

Syndetic list. Dramatic device-pause at end. Determiner- ‘they’ exclamatory. Microcosm of Old South, the cancer is the patriarch of the family and they are compared to corruption and mendacity. Mae detaches herself from the situation.

Question 5

‘We gave ‘em that thing for a third anniversary present, got three speakers in it’ G

Answer 5

Possessive pronoun ‘we’ Countable noun ‘three’- Gooper using the rising technology to take back power from Brick over inheritance