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Summary The Pauper
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- English (JVENG)
- Institution
- St Benedict's College
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The PauperRichard Ntiru
1. Pauper – Extremely poor person.
Craning – stretching out and seeking for help.
Pauper, pauper – forceful, harsh and uneasy.
2. Paradox.
In all directions – he is looking everywhere for help. (In every direction).
In no direction – Yet no one is willing to help him.
3. Brutal – intense.
Malignant – diseased.
4. Piteous – to have pity and to feel sorry.
Forge – to create something.
We need to pity the conditions this poor, helpless man is living in.
5. Was it even worth the time and effort to create him?
Makes his life seem worthless.
6. Leafless – barren, empty and lifeless – a symbol of his life.
Alliteration of ‘l’ and consonance of “lea” emphasises and symbolised how empty and
lifelessness he is.
Alliteration – makes it sound heavy and gives you an image of tiredness.
7. Jigger – parasitic flees – this pauper is so dirty that he is infected.
Nursing – housing the flees and playing a “mother” figure toward them.
8. Simile: Flees – baby.
Fussing and restless – like an old women (mother).
9. Treason – to go against the highest power (e.g. government).
9 – 10. Condemned – persecuted.
Indifferent – to not care less about something.
11. Horny pad – hard, calloused heals.
Trudge – very heavy, slow walk.
12. Gullies – little ridges of your shoes.
Shows how hard and ridged his bare feet are.
14. We assume that the “He” is God (but the “He” is not God).
Endurance – hardship, but you persevere.
15. God wouldn’t do these kind of things to the pauper.
Imprudent – your shameful presence.
16. Isolated.
Hairless – shows that he is old and warn out.
Goatskin – gives off a sense of Africa.
17. Bones are sticking out – shows how think and anorexic he is.
18. He is not in a rural area but rather in a city.
Shows that he is not surrounded by other poor people but rather by a rich city, which
isolated him even more.
19 – 20. Makes us feel disgusted.
21. Grimy – thick layer of dirt on his skin.
22. Caking – emphasis the thick layers of dirt on his skin.
Emaciated – malnourished.
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