Thursday, 21 April 2016

Passage - love crossing cultural divides

Attitudes


Amy Foster


"When she heard him... whistle... she would drop whatever she had in her hand... and she would run out to his call."


"There it stands - Yanko Goorall- in the rectors handwriting"
  • Doesn't care about what society thinks she wants to marry him
  • Suggestions they were married
  • Knows what she wants and doesn't care about the consequences


Yanko


"He seemed to think his honourable intentions could not be mistaken"
  • Seems trustworthy, honest and genuine
  • Threatening
  • Is there feeling? Or is it just tradition no joy in the description of him


Farmer Smith


"Promised to break his head for him if he found him about again"


"told the girl she that she must be mad to take up with a man who was surely wrong in his head"
  • Disapproving, trying to stop them marrying
  • Warns her off


Society


"how - shall I say odious?- he was to the countryside"


"for a hundred futile and inappreciable reasons"
  • Judge him
  • No good reasons to dislike only his foreighness

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