The Deliverer Flashcards
3 parts
A convent in Kerala, Milwaukee airport, years later an orphan girl is saved, fostered to Americans, grows up
Language
Bleak, not euphemistic, no positive language
- can’t afford emotion, don’t have the luxury
Contrast of
Cultures, emotional privilege and Lucy of emotion
Title
Ambiguous
‘My mother’
Passive voice, lack of autonomy
‘Collect children’
Objectification, seen as rubbish
‘Crippled or dark’
Said with no contempt
Garbage, stuffed in bags,’
Comma gives a sense of urgency
‘Will bring’
Ambiguous, no identity
‘Milwaukee Airport’
Subtitles
‘At the gates’
Short lines, cyclical feeling
‘Hadn’t seen it touched her yet’
Disgust? Pity?
‘ but they are crying’
Romanticised contempt for the parents
‘Feeling the strangeness of her empty arms’
Focus around the baby
‘To the day of her birth’
Oppression of women, detached, factual
- Indian society
‘Watch body slither out from body’
Not recognising humanity
- shocking
- gruesome, poor verbs
‘Trudge home to lie down for their men again’
Not their fault, poverty and hopelessness
- makes reader angry
- weariness and misery
‘Passed from woman to woman’
Two cultures, emotion under the surface, protesting against females with culture
Narrator is
Engaged with baby and has emotional connection
