Violence Flashcards
“Rasheed had no trouble forcing it over her knuckles”
-his force with the ring foreshadows his violent nature
“She could hear something slyly playful in these questions, like a needling.”
-provocative dominating
-Rasheed likes that he scares her as it asserts his dominance
“His appetite on the other hand was fierce, sometimes bordering on violence. The way he pinned her down, his hard squeezes at her breasts, how furiously his hips worked.”
-verbs- “pinned”, “hard squeeze”
-adverb “furiously” connote a semantic field of aggression.
“Rasheed seemed to loom over the women…the way her body tilted forward subtly as though she was trying to wriggle free”
-Rasheed described with zoomorphism presents him as a predator
“He would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks”
-rule of 3 listing shows the amount of abuse
“He shoved two fingers into her mouth and pried it open, then forced the cold, hard pebbles into it.”
-“shoved”, “pried” and “forced” are verbs with violent associations and almost depict Rasheed as animalistic
“The whistling. Then the blast, blissfully elsewhere, followed by an expulsion of breath…whilst everyone else amid cries and choking cloud of smoke, there was a scrambling of pulling from the debris what remained of a sister, a brother,a grandchild”
-intense description of war.
-the long sentence mimics the anticipation of the bombs.
-repetition of “c” harsh sound, almost like hissing.
-asyndetic listing shows the sheer amount of destruction
“The mujahideen set down their guns, faced west and prayed. Then the rugs were folded, the guns loaded.”
-ironic dichotomy of the peace and beauty of religion and the violence of guns
“Laila heard of breaking in and shooting entire families, execution style, raping Pashtun girls, shelling Pashtun neighbourhoods, and killing indiscriminately.”
-listing shows the amount of destruction and violence
“Hasina, gone. Giti, gone. Mammy, dead. Babi, dead. Now tariq…”
-short blunt sentences shows the harshness of war
-listing shows the extent of loss
-ellipsis shows she hasn’t accepted tariqs death
“Mariam sat watching the girl out of the corner of her eye as Rasheed’s demands and judgements rained down on them like rockets on Kabul”
-simile of the rockets shows how the war outside mimics the war inside the house
“Sneering, tightening the belt around his fist, the creaking of the leather the glint in his bloodshot eyes. It was the fear of a goat released into the tigers cage”
- metaphor and zoomorphism of Rasheed show his animalistic violence
- sensory language depicts how often this has happened that Mariam knows the sounds
“Homes that lay in roofless ruins of brick and jagged stone, gouged buildings with fallen beams..shattered glass everywhere”
-imagery of destruction and war parallels the war inside laila and Mariams home
-reflects them as destroyed
-harsh adjectives “gouged” “jagged”
Taliban rules:
“Singing is forbidden, dancing is forbidden, playing cards is forbidden”
“If you do not abide by this you will be beaten, if you are caught alone on the street you will be beaten”
“You will not wear charming clothes, you will not speak unless spoken to, you u will not make eye contact”
-anaphora “you will not” and use of imperatives create a strict and totalitarian environment
-repetition of beaten and forbidden
“Other times she met with assortments of wooden clubs, fresh tree branches,short whips, slaps, often fists”
- asyndeton expresses the multitude of the talibans violence and punishments.
- “other times” is a non chalant phrase and shows that this is a common occurrence
