Difference between revisions of "The Story of an African Farm (1883)"

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  • 36-8: The overseer's silver hunting watch, the way it invokes religion fate and history for the boy. Time and apocalypse
   * Time reinvoked on 137 at start of part 2
  • Kaffir: black South Africans (derogatory now)
  • Kraal: enclosure outbuilding for livestock
  • Kopje: small hill
  • 40 Waldo's sacrifice
  • 45-6 as in Mill the opposition between education and agrarian work even in childrens' understanding
  • 66 Waldo reading bible
  • Ch 5 strange/interesting structure
  • 76 lyndall's books/bonaparte's phony teaching
  • 93 Em swearing she will help the weak against the strong
  • 102 Waldo's rejection of god and the mutual incomphrehensibility of experience/ feeling
  • 103 Ghosts and guilt like hamlet or lady m then Macb at chapter end
  • 109 Waldo reading abt property rights
  • 114 Tant throws book at Waldo like John reed in jane eyre
  • 119-20 deep time
  • 130 a more visceral meditation on the wounds of childhood but reminiscent of Mill on the Floss
  • 137 time and internal seasons
   * Also a metafictive moment indicating how the narrative is structured like in ch 5