3-21-12

Key:

Repetition

Odd Diction 

Punctuation

Aliteration

Imagery

Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.

3/3/12

Paton doesn't speak very highly of women in the novel putting men above them by saying "women scratch at the dirt" (Paton p.4-). He also singles out women by saying men rather then they which could show that women aren't really important and don't get recognized for the problems they have too. In society they are seen of as less important and lie second to men. This shows that people in South Africa are sexist rather than in America during the time when racism was a big problem.