Marrakach.pptVIP

People with brown skins are next door to invisible. People with brown skins are almost invisible. comparisons The poor old women: invisible Owing to accident if one even notices the old woman under her load of sticks The donkeys: visible Was infuriated, damnably treated, Makes one’s blood boil, can be sorry similarities: 1. small---- tiny,shrink to the size of children, vs Not bigger than a dog 2.overloaded---crept,bent double, hobble past, the crushing weight vs a load too much for a fifteen-hands mule,packsaddle not taken off for weeks, 3. willing/obedient She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say, as a beast of burden Vs willing creature, does not need bridle or halter 4. unceremonious treatment after death dumped into a hole and flung over with earth vs tip it into the ditch and the village dogs have torn its guts Conclusion Orwell is describing the insensitivity of the white colonists who noticed the suffering of the doneys but ignored that of old women. The cruel treatment of the donkey makes one angry but the sufferings of human beings do not. Paragraph 22-26Negro infantry---author’s feeling Four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels. 总数达4，5千人，正在弯曲着前进，伴随着的是靴子的____________和铁轮的_______________. 哐当声 辘辘声 Senegalese, the blackest neroes in Africa The splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-downkhaki uniforms. They were wearing ready-made(老一套的，陈旧的) khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies. The look he gave me was not in the least the kind of look you might expect. Not hostile, not comtemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive. 他的那种神情与我们所想象的是那么不同。没有敌意，没有不屑，没有愤怒，甚至连好奇也谈不上。 ---the black negroes have been accustomed to the prejudice and cruel treament they had received. And in this connnection it doesn’t matter twopence if he calls himself a socialist. Every white man, even those who call themselves socialists can’t help but think this thought when he sees