Preview

Disgrace Summary

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1387 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Disgrace Summary
RESUMEN DEL LIBRO (Para q podmos leerlo más rápido jejeje)
David Lurie is a professor of Communications at Cape Technical University in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a middle aged man, twice-divorced, living alone. He finds no pleasure in his work.
He is a lonely man, and finds pleasure in going to a prostitute every week. One day he sees the woman, Soraya, in the city with her two sons, and shortly after that the prostitute stops working at the brothel where David frequented. He is now left alone and lonely.
David is a man who has had more than his share of women in his life. Most of these women have been strangers, one-time affairs that ended as quickly as they started. David pursues one of his young students, Melanie Isaacs. He sleeps with her on several occasions, despite her protests and complete lack of interest in him. He finds her exciting and doesn't really think about how she feels. Melanie, with the urging of her family and her boyfriend, files an official complaint against David with the University. David is given the chance to save his job by apologizing and taking the blame for what he did. When he is unwilling to do so, his only other option is to leave the university for good.
David goes to live temporarily with his daughter from his first marriage, Lucy.
As David arrives on the farm, he begins to help out with the daily chores. He sees that his daughter is a country woman, despite himself being a city man. Lucy's neighbor is Petrus, a black man who was once her employee but has now bought a piece of land next to her and is a true landowner. David marvels at how the times have changed in South Africa with blacks and whites. One day, Lucy's farm is attacked by three men who take a lot of her belongings, set David on fire, and brutally rape Lucy.
This incident leaves David shaken to the core, and Lucy in a state of disbelief.
Lucy, however, does not tell the police about the rape, and keeps it to herself. She believes that in some

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    David’s mother worked as a secretary in the Register of Deeds office which was in the courthouse. This meant that the family had a housekeeper who lived with them during the week. Her name was Marie Little Solider and she was a Hunkpapa Sioux who originally came from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. She was in her early twenties and was close to six feet tall and wore cotton print dresses. David worshipped Marie’s boyfriend, Ronnie Tall Bear.…

    • 4960 Words
    • 20 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Thinking that she has everything in the world at the moment she gets caught up with fun. She gets punished for throwing a party when she thought that her parents left. She is not forced to leave her boyfriend and friends behind and go to Napa valley with her parents to work on the family vineyard. While she is there she meets a boy that she finds cute but annoying. She comes to know him more after being forced to work with him in transforming the dirt and rusted wine tasting room into something else. As much as she doesn’t wish to be with her parents or even near David she tries to get her way so she doesn’t have to put in any work towards the place. She gets her boyfriend to agree on coming up to visit her on her birthday but ending the night on them breaking up isn’t what she wanted to happen. She wants nothing from anyone. She just wants to get back to her normal life with her friends to enjoy her summer and to have things go back to the way they should be. But towards the end she dumps her boyfriend Brian and gets together with David realizing that she loves him so she tells him “David, you’re my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don’t care what the world says. Let’s defy them all, my darling”…

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Basically David betrayed the lord he sinned with adultery. He had a man killed to take his wife and conceive a son. David did not fight his own war either instead stayed in jerusalem where he was safe and sound. He could have had any woman but instead he went to someone who was already marred which is a no no witht the Lord. David then was confronted by Nathan. The Lord was very angry he cursed him told him all his wives will sleep with other men in daylight not in secret. Also, that his future child, would die. He begged and pleaded with the Lord but the lord had already gave the word.…

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Merab, the daughter of Saul, has assigned to David by her father, the Saul. David finally married her, after several times of refusals. When David fled from Saul, Merab became the wife of someone else. After Saul’s death, David had recalled her to help him to consolidate his kingship. In the end, she has been cursed with childlessness because she criticized the dancing of David in the front of the ark. This marriage was basically motivated by political benefits. Years later, David married Bathsheba, who was the wife of Uriah, after he saw she was bathing under the roof. After one of his subordinates set Uriah up to be killed, David took Bathsheba as his wife. Furthermore, when David had to escape from the force of Absalom, he took his entire household, instead of his ten concubines, who were left to look after David’s house. So far, women are not something deserved sincerity for David. Their existences are purely for the sake of reproduction and particular material benefits.…

    • 444 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Montana 1948

    • 388 Words
    • 2 Pages

    When David's Native American housekeeper Marie Little Soldier falls ill, Frank Hayden, the local doctor and David's uncle, is called. When Marie refuses medical treatment from Frank, David's mother Gail discovers that Frank has been using his medical status to preyon the local Native American women. David's father Wesley, the local sheriff, then begins to look deeper into these allegations as even though Frank is his brother, he must uphold justice.…

    • 388 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Another way she would torture David was she would put him in the basement and made him starve and eat out of a dog bowl. David also had to sleep on a hard cot in the basement with no covers and his clothes had holes in them and he barely owned a pair of shoes. David wasn’t treated like his other siblings he was treated…

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Well, at the end of this story, the father moves out of the house. He’s the little hope that David had in surviving. After dropping David’s father off, his mother turns back to David looks at him and sneers, “You’re all mine now. Too bad your father’s…

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Kari Tahe Analysis

    • 745 Words
    • 3 Pages

    David’s parents and siblings play a very small part in the story by just having Kari and David be the responsible ones to get them to safety. David’s father plays a little bit more than the rest of the kids or David’s mother by showing is paranoid of following orders from a high schooler that is really just a stranger to them. Sarah is a student in Kari’s class that doesn’t get along with Kari at all and is someone that Kari just uses to hack into her accounts to send information to David and to find information on what is going on in the world. She is the bully in the story who makes fun of the both of them for their…

    • 745 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Why The Chrysalids Deviant

    • 4964 Words
    • 20 Pages

    Both she and her family are forced to flee. They are captured and banished to the Fringes. David finds it difficult to reconcile the laws of his society with his own conscience. This problem is intensified when he sees his aunt driven to suicide because she has given birth to a deviant baby.…

    • 4964 Words
    • 20 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    David is an immature person. After his father moved away, he was so angry that he refused to talk to his dad and even burnt all the letters from his father. He thinks that he is as same as his neighbour's dog, Monty, a victim of neglect. He even stopped working and got low marks at…

    • 537 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Unfortunately, Marie dead after a few days Frank went to the house. Frank claimed her dead because of pneumonia. Basically, she was sick, but David knew better, he went to deputy sheriff Len McAuley’s house. Len was drunk and reveals the fact that he also saw Frank walking into house before Marie was found dead. David chose to tell his parents what he knew, or at least part he knew about Frank. This shows that he was developing in the area of honesty. Before, David would kept all this to himself, rather than face his parents with knowledge he knows will displease…

    • 751 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Four years into his life, Catherine began to make him do chores around the house, and if they weren't done fast enough or well enough, he was beaten. When the author describes the horrors of his childhood home he uses great description and word choices to get the story across. For example, in the story David says “it became so bad at times, I had not strength to…

    • 670 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Autobiography of a Face

    • 1324 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Lucy's description of her early disease is particularly upsetting. Her family, overwhelmed by financial and emotional turmoil because of the stress of her illness, is not as visible as the part they actually played. Lucy's mother was a somewhat blurred figure who seemed to disappear by the middle of the book and portrayed her father as a particularly vague individual. However, the day-to-day trappings of illness force her to rely on her mother, whose relationship is one of the most disturbed, and moving. Early on she comments that when she was a child she didn't understand that her mother's anger was caused by depression, but she never elaborates on this observation. Her mother compares being brave with being good, and says: "At a time when everything in my family was unpredictable and dysfunctional… here I had been supplied with a formula of behavior for gaining acceptance and, I believed, love. All I had to do was perform heroically and I could personally save my entire…

    • 1324 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The destruction of Earth has a great impact on the way of life. When David travels 500 years into the future, he notices substantial changes to the place he once inhabited. Almost everything is in ruins, with no…

    • 1413 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the novel Disgrace, written by J.M Coetzee it is evident that the relationships David has with the various women reflects his lack of self-knowledge and views on life. Lucy as the dominant woman throughout the novel has an impact on David’s perception and the way he portrays life to be, and by adapting to her lifestyle experiences change himself. Melanie, Soraya, and Bev to an extent contribute to David’s lack of self-knowledge, that he cannot do without having sex and expecting more after. Tersa has a symbolic meaning in David’s life and comes to a realisation that he might be filling a void. Each woman has a role to play in David’s realisation of himself and how he approaches specific things.…

    • 765 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics