Answer: Gordimer´s political beliefs are reflected in this story in a way that she puts her view with the device os negatie dialects. For example: “art is the negative knowledge of the
actual world” (“Reconciliation Under Duress” ). Rather, art explores what is not known and
as Adorno explains, “art does not become knowledge with reference to mere immediate reality”
. Throughout her novels, Gordimer avoids references to the “immediate reality.” As Ettin
explains, we never get a full picture of the plot and instead the reader must orient himself by considering what has not been said. As Gordimer draws on the theories of Adorno, she portrays the strong appeal of this German, Jewish theorist, further distancing herself from the genre of
black authors and redefining the objective of a political novel.
As the story opens, Hattie Owen is in her home. Her parents have gone
out for the evening, but she isn't alone because the family operates a
boarding house and Mr. Penny and Miss Hagerty are both upstairs. Hattie
is watching home movies. She's pleased that her father trusted her to do
everything, from setting up the screen to feeding the reels of film
through the projector. She says that she turned twelve the previous
summer and that she will forever look at the summer as a turning point
in her life because of Adam. She says that she dates things as "before
Adam" or "after Adam".
As the movie begins to play, Hattie sees Angel Valentine, who was
also a boarder over the summer when Adam came. Angel is standing on the
front porch of the boarding house, waving toward
Answer:
D. This excerpt reflects a combination of text structures.
I would say the correct answer is choice D, but I'm not 100% sure.
hope this helps you! :-)
An example of the ineffectiveness of the colonialist activities that Marlow witnessed was that he was able to see a group of black prisoners that were walking in chains with a black man wearing a shoddy uniform and then carried a rifle. He then became familiar of this dying native laborers.