the deliverer Flashcards
key theme
the dehumanising effect of poverty
“garbage, stuffed in bags”
babies treated as worthless/ rubbish
settings, USA vs India
contrasting wealth and poverty
“they know about ceremony and tradition, about doing things right”
Ironic
America is celebrating the time of birth, birthdays
“how her mother tried to bury her”
a mother is meant to protect
- contradicts the idea of a mothers role
- inhumane behaviour
- mother is dehumanised and has lost the basic human connection to the baby
- dehumanising effects of poverty
“they are crying. we couldn’t stop crying”
the adopted American parents are able to show basic human emotion towards their child as they are wealthy.
- they are celebrating the birth of the child
- repetition
“Milwaukee Airport”
“video tapes”
technology
- urban America
- interconnected - freedom
- wealthy
“desolate hut”
rural India
- not a part of modern society and not technologically advanced
- harsh environment
“outside village boundaries”
- implies that giving birth is shameful and should be kept a secret - segregated
- still follows the traditional methods, patriarchal society
- power of the village as a community
“squeeze out life”
“watch body slither”
- impersonal
- reduces birth to being something disgusting
- removes the emotion from the process
- dehumanising, cold view
“feel for penis or no penis”
- male dominated society
- treating the baby as an object, no individuality
“toss the baby to the heap of others”
nouns, “toss”, “heap”
- dehumanization and objectification of the baby
- suggests their lack of value
“body slither out from body”
- nothing differentiates the two bodies
- the baby and mother are not fully human
- both women and baby are being dehumanised and seen asobjects
“trudge home to lie down for their men again”
- implies that this is an ongoing loop
- having children is purely a duty a woman needs to fulfil
- dehumanising
- patriarchal
