The Deliverer- Doshi Flashcards
1
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Doshi’s MAP
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- criticising brutal abandonment of female babies in India
- encouraging people to save them, like in America
2
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Themes
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- society and culture
- gender
- transgression
- time and place
3
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F/S- 3 sections
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- airport: global connections, mixed cultures
- convent: traditional, religion
- combination: bridge
4
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F/S- end-stops and caesura
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- continuity of dire situation
- cut short, like lives of baby girls
- abruption focuses reader on tragedy
5
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F/S- monosyllabic diction
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- ‘is’ and ‘was’: avoids encouraging particular emotion
- allows readers’ own moral judgements
6
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Language- Verbs
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- ‘abandoned’, ‘covered’, ‘stuffed’, ‘tossed’: brutality of situation
7
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Language- Alliteration
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- ‘dug up by a dog’, ‘mothers.. squeeze out life,/ Watch body slither out from body’: sinister tone, inhumane treatment of girls
8
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‘Because they were crippled or dark or girls’
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- ‘or’: marginalisation and rejection
9
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‘Abandoned at their doorstep’
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- hostile verb, yet unemotive line
- brings abuse of children to home of reader, reinforced it as a global issue
10
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‘this is the one my mother will bring’
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- isolated line: emphasises abandonment; detached from and culture and identity
- ‘one’: one of many, further stripped of identity
11
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‘this girl grows up on video tapes,/ sees how she’s passed from woman to woman’
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- microcosm of delivery process
- she will always carry the burden of her abandonment
12
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'’trudge home to lie down for their men again.’
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- ‘again’: cycle of process, lack of prevention
- difficulty of the girls’ endless suffering, trapped between two cultures
- culture that is theirs but rejected them vs. foreign and unfamiliar culture
- entrapment of women in patriarchal society that forces them to give birth ‘for their men’
