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To: JAMES:
In 1999, South African authorJ.M. Coetzee published the novel Disgrace. The book is full of different characters that are going through transitions. South Africa at this time was also going through transitions dealing with the end of apartheid and the ramifications that come with it. David Lurie, the main character of the novel goes through a few changes througout the novel, His attitude towards women, his relationship with his daughter and his attitude towards animals.
In the beginning of the novel David's attitude towards woman is that he thinks of them just as objects and he dehumanizes them.
He is in control when dealing with his daughter. He treats animals with no compassion, that they exist just for food..
Just like his country David starts going through changes. As he is loses his job and takes residence in the countryside some events happen that cause him to change. When he and his daughter, Lucy are victimized and their dogs shot, his eyes and heart opened up. He saw how everything was low key in the country and how everyone treated each other. He had time to lok beyond the outside of an animal or woman and see what's inside. The aftermath of his duaghters rape and how she wanted to deal with it on her terms not his made him lose control of her. His daughters helper and neighbor, Petrus took the side of the boy who raped Davids daughter. Petrus was also black and was granted more power due to apartheid. He volunteered to help out a friend of Lucy, Bev Shaw who also worked with the areas animals, by euthanizing and treating them. David also found himself learning to treat these animals with respect. He grew a fondness with Bev Shaw, a fumpy lady in her middle age years and ended up sleeping with her.
Davids character became more relaxed, and more accepting whereas before he would be in total control of his life. Now he has learned to accept things the way they are and let go. He no longer treated women as mere objects. He learned to treat them with respect. He accepted that he would not be able to change his daughter and her actions. He learned that animals have a souls and are more than just another part of our diet. He learned compassion. He learned to be accepting of himself being without a job and content not being in control of his life, just like the citizens of his country South Africa dealing with the aftermath of apartheid.
This is just a rough draft It is short and I will add examples from the book and expand on it.
Is the structure ok? Do the parts of his character need to be separated? If you can show me where or should they be together in one paragraph? Thanks
In 1999, South African authorJ.M. Coetzee published the novel Disgrace. The book is full of different characters that are going through transitions. South Africa at this time was also going through transitions dealing with the end of apartheid and the ramifications that come with it. David Lurie, the main character of the novel goes through a few changes througout the novel, His attitude towards women, his relationship with his daughter and his attitude towards animals.
In the beginning of the novel David's attitude towards woman is that he thinks of them just as objects and he dehumanizes them.
He is in control when dealing with his daughter. He treats animals with no compassion, that they exist just for food..
Just like his country David starts going through changes. As he is loses his job and takes residence in the countryside some events happen that cause him to change. When he and his daughter, Lucy are victimized and their dogs shot, his eyes and heart opened up. He saw how everything was low key in the country and how everyone treated each other. He had time to lok beyond the outside of an animal or woman and see what's inside. The aftermath of his duaghters rape and how she wanted to deal with it on her terms not his made him lose control of her. His daughters helper and neighbor, Petrus took the side of the boy who raped Davids daughter. Petrus was also black and was granted more power due to apartheid. He volunteered to help out a friend of Lucy, Bev Shaw who also worked with the areas animals, by euthanizing and treating them. David also found himself learning to treat these animals with respect. He grew a fondness with Bev Shaw, a fumpy lady in her middle age years and ended up sleeping with her.
Davids character became more relaxed, and more accepting whereas before he would be in total control of his life. Now he has learned to accept things the way they are and let go. He no longer treated women as mere objects. He learned to treat them with respect. He accepted that he would not be able to change his daughter and her actions. He learned that animals have a souls and are more than just another part of our diet. He learned compassion. He learned to be accepting of himself being without a job and content not being in control of his life, just like the citizens of his country South Africa dealing with the aftermath of apartheid.
This is just a rough draft It is short and I will add examples from the book and expand on it.
Is the structure ok? Do the parts of his character need to be separated? If you can show me where or should they be together in one paragraph? Thanks
Engl 110
The
rape of his daughter makes him change.
David Lurie is the main character in
the novel of the Desgrace, written by J.M. Coetzee in 1999. The novel is in
Cape Town, base in the post-apartheid South Africa, when the
domination of blacks by whites was present around 1948, when the racial segregation and institutionalized of the black race are displacer for political, social and economic reasons, whites
took what is not theirs by force. The story of David, a white man with Douches descent
that lives in George the rest of his family still lives in Europe. He is a
professor of modern languages, in good health, clear mind, wise, does not want
people to think or reflect on him. He is been disconnected from others with his
French language. A cold calculating man (p 2) his temperament is fixed and
living within his income, temperament, means emotional, and designs that will
be happy as the last day of his death (p 2) He is married twice, has a
daughter. He has no desire to get emotionally involved with anyone. David comes
to the opposite sex (and harm women) as objects to satisfy his sexual urges,
and has to go through a transformation unconscious, making changes set of middle-aged
man obstinate in his ways in life and in his views on women, lives of animals
and comments on women is just speechless.
Starting
with Soraya, a woman of religion (Muslim) works with a service for men sexually
pleasures. David describes her as an exotic woman, she is slim and tall, and
describes one-body honey Browne "luxe et voluptuousness" (pg 35), who
takes pleasure in your pleasure, and he thinks the affection has grown in it
for her. To some extent, he believes his affection is reciprocated he is a
regular customer of her. Melanie is his student from George and is a kind of
exotic. She is also the minority, although whites as less and must be the
minority group. He convince Melanie to have intimate sexual intercourse, David
is a rare man disconnected from all others and is interested in exotic girls. These
examples show that he wants the whole aspect of the relationship to his sexual
advantage the objects of his sexual pleasures. Then on (Chapter # 6-7) David
treats or at least tries to treat Melanie as another student, after he is been
with her sexual intimidate. She feels completely comfortable in this situation.
That is the reason is not allow this kind of relationship between a student and
a teacher, yet he thinks he did nothing wrong, even though he is the teacher
and she is the student? This man is in the position of power over her and this
is not acceptable. David makes a comment about the game that a woman has the
beauty of life forever oh (pg 123-124), and the sheep are to be eaten. He had
to resign his teaching job due to these accusations, of breaking the rules at
the university by having this king of relationships, he has to leave, but he thinks
this is not a big problem.
David
was forced to abandon his teaching, because the rules at school. He has no job,
has no more than his superiority to others is to make it look the same as
untouchable. After all this, he decided to visit his daughter who lives on the
farm. About his daughter, her name is Lucy a lesbian, and the name of her partner
is Helen. Lucy lives in the country, with other people and with other seniors
who make the lives of farmers, living a simple life different from his father.
She is in the mud of the earth. There is a big difference both David so far I
think that animals do not have souls like humans her father comments. Lucy did
not criticize these comments. David when he met Lucy neighbor Petrus is, David
knew that Petrus is not honest and that he is hiding something against his
daughter and as a parent must stay with her daughter to protect her.
Petrus
is the result of force that way to survive and David does not understand that
Petrus is because society and people like him do well. David also met Mrs. Bev
Shaw, another neighbor who is much older than Lucy is. His impression of this
woman was very negative, David thought Bev Shaw is one of the ugliest women to
consider in your life, and never think to relate to her sexually. He continued
to being more or less indifferent to animals. "(P143). Had compassion is
not emotional, is arrogant and removed. They thought of him as not having
social skills, but the change has not been completed. Once there, David and
Lucy is the victim of a violent crime and sexual assault. David thinks this is
his misfortune "(109). Begins to understand the shame that a woman must
feel after being raped and used the way it was not until his daughter Lucy is
raped, only then will the change of perspective. Before the rape of Lucy never
had to question his life until today. He is learning now not to be indifferent,
but to care for the dogs and goats. That dogs can smell your thoughts, the smell of shame David now have empathy for animals, for
example, when he thought of nothing but benefit. Now analyze sheep and dogs.
When a sheep past because of old age? On (pg 123) sheep’s are not owners
themselves are not themselves, are not masters of their lives. They are used every
drop of them. Consumed his flesh, his bones be crushed poultry feed, which of
them do not leak anything, except maybe the gallbladder, that no one will eat. It
is in this transition, the dogs see the resemblance of him. As if, anyone is
attracted. (P. 133-135) after the rape, Lucy tells her father, you tell the
police, what happen to you and I will tell them what happen to me. The
difference of opinions, to understand how you feel between, and her father are
a contrast. Lucy is the practice, David is very philosophical, and now he wants
to fight for her rights, but Lucy realizes that the country is moving in a
different direction and is open to change. Now roles are changing, for example,
David wanted to keep his private affairs as a secret, and now Lucy says this is
my life and I do not want to get involved. Somehow, I feel that history and
this is the story of David. Lucy showing the heat down personally feels his
side. They wanted to demonstrate control over it (p. 158) that had marked. Come
for me. She is paying a price for living in that part of the world. She will
relinquish its control, in order to have a price. Lucy pulls the knife this is
what David did other women. Now Lucy is on the opposite side of what his father
did with other women. David looks defeated.
Now
the work begins helping Mrs. Bev Shaw, his work is set to sleep help animals
that are no longer useful for farmers. Bev Shaw is old and not very desirable
or female, according to him, and he could not even think to be intimate with
her. David ended up working with her in the veterinary clinic, where the animal
put to sleep longer needed; your job is like dog man. David did not like
animals, until you have to live with her daughter. Finally, the scene of Bev Shaw surprised seduction with
how things have changed and you are looking for? "In the afternoon, after
a call from her." Can we meet in the clinic "(p150)? This is what I
am going to have to get used to; He is referring to Ms. Shaw.
David is trying to hold on to something
you know that at any time going to lose now. The opera is filling his life now,
and is more realistic for him. (p 185), this is not what he imagined life. Operation
and gives control dogs. The opera is taking over his life and had Teresa change
the character of a normal woman or young exotic not proven that he is trying to
accept women are what they are. This is not what I want to do, but this is less
as a compromise. Petrus, David Lucy each go in every part of the
transformations occurring pinch Lucy, Peturs and David. If this people that
rape if she goes around doing this kind of things men raping and leaving other
seeds and transform procreation. I guess life has been deleted and so is Lucy
move your belongings. When the three men come and take by force what they
believe is theirs. The country is changing, the culture is changing, everything
is changing, he needs to change and he is realizing that people that he has to apologize is to women, at the
same time women (Lucy) keep trying to let go as is to South Africa. At the same
time with the dogs has to go he is so attached to them and feel he is going to go. The new idea of
the new South Africa. Animals do not have souls of the old South Africa. Is
young and does not know for the future. The old game of David will be like
African men who raped and Lucy’s baby in her womb, the cause of this violation will be the new
life, hope, or solution for a new South Africa.
Sources:
Book Disgrace written by
J.M. Coetzee in 1999.
