giuseppe - roderick ford

Question 1

irregular stanzas

Answer 1

reflect the irregular behaviour of the humans

all capable of atrocity

lying is pointless

4 stanzas - lie

2 stanzas - lie being broken down

Question 2

enjambment

Answer 2

emphasises contradiction

Question 3

title

Answer 3

pinnochio

don’t lie

turns human

Question 3

caesura

Answer 3

stopping to question actions

Question 4

’ in the courtyard behind the aquarium where the bougainvillea grows so well’

Answer 4

spatial deixis - hidden , secret

beautiful imagery contrasts nature of war and conflict

bougainvillea symbolises honesty and welcoming

Question 5

‘butchered on the dry and dusty ground’

Answer 5

links to animals - dehumanising

alliteration - folklore of italy - volcanic eruptions

metaphor for the moral aridity that will be evident in the story

death - fish need water

Question 6

‘a doctor, a fishmonger and certain others’

Answer 6

society’s atrocity

anyone can be inhumane

asyndetic list

Question 7

‘she,it had never learned to speak’

Answer 7

personal pronoun - half human

self correction - convince himself

not human - dehumanised - not human, not relevant

Question 8

‘simple, or so they’d said’

Answer 8

is it true

doubtful

removing himself from situation

Question 9

‘priest who held one of her hands’

Answer 9

humane act

connection, unity

intimate

guilt

Question 10

‘throat was cut’

Answer 10

brutal

say one thing, do the other

good vs evil

Question 11

‘screamed like a woman in terrible fear’

Answer 11

simile - they have created it

she’s human

remorseful and ashamed deep down

emphasises her human like nature

Question 12

‘ripe golden roe’

Answer 12

caviar

‘golden’ - precious

Question 13

‘an egg is not a child’

Answer 13

declarative

contradicts catholic view

mimics nazi propaganda - basic and prosaic

Question 14

‘but refused when some was offered to him’

Answer 14

disjunction emphasises contradiction

guilty

knows he’s lying

morality vs survival

Question 15

‘head and her hands’

Answer 15

alliteration

most human parts

realised she didn’t deserve it - trying to make things better

Question 16

‘tried to take her wedding ring’

Answer 16

start of a new life

links to the holocaust

human ceremony

symbol of their unified decision

how people came together during war for the sake of humanity-possibly a symbol that explains her expectation of protection from harm - a call of her humanity

ford wants to show how people support one another for the wrong reasons and then experience personal conflicts of morality

Question 17

‘the rest they cooked and fed to the troops’

Answer 17

cannibalism

shorter stanza, suggesting more bluntness. lost for words - can’t come to terms with what they’ve done

ironic - hero at something so violent

Question 18

‘they said a large fish had been found of the beach’

Answer 18

false justification

lying

Question 19

‘but he couldn’t look me in the eye, for which i thank god’

Answer 19

uncle does inhumane things

guilt, connection - truth

shows remorse

Question 20

headlines

Answer 20

in conflict sides can often act unjustly

a small good act cannot justify an atrocity

inhumane acts can never be justified

how war can shift the perspective on what is humane

atrocities haunt the generations to come

the gruesome nature of humanity

the appearance of something can be deceptive to the reality of it

malicious acts are justified by pretending there were no other choices

Question 21

tone

Answer 21

gruesome, ruthless, inhumane, dark, guilty

Question 22

themes

Answer 22

atrocities, war, humanity, fantasy, conflict