The Defeated
THE DEFEATED
By: Nadine Gordimer * First Published : 1952 * Type of Plot : Social realism * Time of Work : The 1920’s to 1940’s * Setting : Cape Town, South Africa * Characters : The narrator, Miriam Saiyetovitz, Mr. and Mrs. Saiyetovitz * Genres : Social realism, Short fiction * Locales : Africa, South Africa, Cape Town * Subjects : Suffering Friendship Jews or Jewish life Mines, miners, or mining South Africa or South Africans Wealth Students or Students life Parties Shopping Class difference
Question: Read the short story The Defeated and find three quotations for each subject and write them.
1) Suffering * Coneesion Stores were smelled, and were dirty and the natives spat tuberculosis germs into the dust. She said it was no place for little girls. * The clamor of their voices-always shouting, but so merry so angry! * Ugly, with the blunt ugliness of toad; the ugliness of seeming not entirely at home in any element – as if the earth were the wrong place, too heavy and magnetic for a creature already so blunt; and the water would be no better: too subtle and contour-swayed for a creature so graceless. * But they worried a great deal about the money side of it every time I went down to the store there’d be a discussion of ways and means, Saiyatovitz slowly munching his bread and garlic polony lunch, and worrying. * It must have been a hard struggle for the Saiyctovitzes keep Miriam at the university, buy her clothes , and pay for her board and loading in Johannesburg. * Wicked glitter of the tin trunks, beneath the secret whispering of the blankets, the old Saiyatovitz sat glumly, with patience, waiting…… as animals wait in a cage, for nothing. * Saiyatovitz shuffled off at once to the back of the shop to make a cup of tea for me, and carried it in, sloping over into the saucer. She was uglier than ever, now, her back hunched up
By: Nadine Gordimer * First Published : 1952 * Type of Plot : Social realism * Time of Work : The 1920’s to 1940’s * Setting : Cape Town, South Africa * Characters : The narrator, Miriam Saiyetovitz, Mr. and Mrs. Saiyetovitz * Genres : Social realism, Short fiction * Locales : Africa, South Africa, Cape Town * Subjects : Suffering Friendship Jews or Jewish life Mines, miners, or mining South Africa or South Africans Wealth Students or Students life Parties Shopping Class difference
Question: Read the short story The Defeated and find three quotations for each subject and write them.
1) Suffering * Coneesion Stores were smelled, and were dirty and the natives spat tuberculosis germs into the dust. She said it was no place for little girls. * The clamor of their voices-always shouting, but so merry so angry! * Ugly, with the blunt ugliness of toad; the ugliness of seeming not entirely at home in any element – as if the earth were the wrong place, too heavy and magnetic for a creature already so blunt; and the water would be no better: too subtle and contour-swayed for a creature so graceless. * But they worried a great deal about the money side of it every time I went down to the store there’d be a discussion of ways and means, Saiyatovitz slowly munching his bread and garlic polony lunch, and worrying. * It must have been a hard struggle for the Saiyctovitzes keep Miriam at the university, buy her clothes , and pay for her board and loading in Johannesburg. * Wicked glitter of the tin trunks, beneath the secret whispering of the blankets, the old Saiyatovitz sat glumly, with patience, waiting…… as animals wait in a cage, for nothing. * Saiyatovitz shuffled off at once to the back of the shop to make a cup of tea for me, and carried it in, sloping over into the saucer. She was uglier than ever, now, her back hunched up