The Deliverer

Question 1

3 parts

Answer 1

A convent in Kerala, Milwaukee airport, years later an orphan girl is saved, fostered to Americans, grows up

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

Bleak, not euphemistic, no positive language

- can’t afford emotion, don’t have the luxury

Question 3

Contrast of

Answer 3

Cultures, emotional privilege and Lucy of emotion

Question 4

Title

Answer 4

Ambiguous

Question 5

‘My mother’

Answer 5

Passive voice, lack of autonomy

Question 6

‘Collect children’

Answer 6

Objectification, seen as rubbish

Question 7

‘Crippled or dark’

Answer 7

Said with no contempt

Question 8

Garbage, stuffed in bags,’

Answer 8

Comma gives a sense of urgency

Question 9

‘Will bring’

Answer 9

Ambiguous, no identity

Question 10

‘Milwaukee Airport’

Answer 10

Subtitles

Question 11

‘At the gates’

Answer 11

Short lines, cyclical feeling

Question 12

‘Hadn’t seen it touched her yet’

Answer 12

Disgust? Pity?

Question 13

‘ but they are crying’

Answer 13

Romanticised contempt for the parents

Question 14

‘Feeling the strangeness of her empty arms’

Answer 14

Focus around the baby

Question 15

‘To the day of her birth’

Answer 15

Oppression of women, detached, factual

- Indian society

Question 16

‘Watch body slither out from body’

Answer 16

Not recognising humanity

• shocking
• gruesome, poor verbs

Question 17

‘Trudge home to lie down for their men again’

Answer 17

Not their fault, poverty and hopelessness

• makes reader angry
• weariness and misery

Question 18

‘Passed from woman to woman’

Answer 18

Two cultures, emotion under the surface, protesting against females with culture

Question 19

Narrator is

Answer 19

Engaged with baby and has emotional connection