encountered firsthand such parochial attitude‚ and had learnt to take it in his stride‚ the poem is thus influenced by his personal experience. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poet‚ seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African. The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation‚ therefore‚ is employed by the poet to apply to a much broader‚ macrocosmic level where racial bigotry
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who is in search of a house and his landlady. The poet thus briefly explains the treatment of the African people in European countries‚ especially England‚ where the so-called ‘superior’ white people‚ suggesting the theme of racialism. This poem takes place in London as it is evident from the poem about the presence of a red booth‚ red pillar box & a red double tiered bus. The main characters in the poem include an African (assumed to be the poet) and the landlady‚ from whom the poet wishes to rent
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BlackOut ’Blackout’ is a short story by Roger Mais. It is set in Jamaica and is about racism and the contrast of two different races‚ sexes and cultures! The story starts off explaining the blackout in the city and the general atmosphere of uncomfortable and tense over the city. At this point the story builds an expectation of some sort of conflict. An American women was waiting at a bus stop. Suprisingly she was not bothered by the darkness‚ and she was not nervous. A black man slowly approaches
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Dr. Kris De Jaegher Extra Material complementing Pindyck and Rubinfeld Chapter 2 Learning Objectives 1. Understand the meaning of demand and supply curves‚ and see how equilibrium is established; 2. Understand the meaning of the slope and intercepts of demand (and supply) curves; 3. Understand the difference between movements along demand and supply curves‚ and shifts of demand and supply curves; 4. Understand the effect of price ceilings and price floors; 5. Understand
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as dramatic monologue‚ and rather like a drama‚ tells a story that is full of lucid mystery. There are two distinct scenes in the poem‚ in the first‚ which occupies the first three stanzas‚ of this seven-stanza poem. The reader is presented with a landlady showing a perspective lodger a room that has been vacated by her previous tenant‚ the mysterious Mr Bleaney. Mysterious in that he seems to be an ethereal entity‚ and is never presented to the reader‚ except as a metaphor for what has gone before
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were having some sort of ... function beyond herself. Function. Alarm bells. Dr. Jay‚ after all. A plot thing? No‚ not a plot thing‚ definitely not a plot thing‚ she wasn’t making herself understood. The points of her hair swung like pendula below her chin as she shook her head. My napkin had unfortunately fallen under the table. How clumsy of me. Her legs were there‚ but curled back‚ underneath her chair‚ ankles crossed. Alarm bells or no‚ I wanted first to reach for an ankle‚ then to pee. No
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When Billy said‚ “I should’ve thought you’d simply be swamped with applicants.” the landlady replied with‚ “Oh I am my dear‚ of course I am…. I’m inclined to be just a teeny weeny bit choosy and particular - if you see what I mean.” Unlike Lamb to the Slaughter‚ right away you can tell this doesn’t sound normal without having to read the whole story first. Earlier in the story‚ the landlady was also very quick to answer Billy when he was at the door as if she knew he was going to be there
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people/races. In this short poem of a telephone conversation between a dark skinned West African and a British landlady‚ the writer‚ Wole Soyinka‚ effectively makes others aware of the prejudice and tantrums thrown by the whites to the blacks. This poem emphasises the racism and criticism of Whites against the Blacks. In this poem‚ a West African person is talking to a White British landlady on a phone about house rent. According to him‚ the price seemed reasonable‚ but because of his dark skin‚ he
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same. Marc much preferred his office‚ despite the profound lack of excitement of his work‚ to his room on Oven Street (running north and south from Sherbrooke East to St. Catherine)‚ where his neighbors were noisy and sometimes violent‚ and his landlady consistently so. He tried to explain the meaning of his existence once to a fellow tenant‚ Louis‚ but without much success. Louis‚ when he got the drift‚ was apt to sneer. "So Craig latches on to Bleury and Bleury gets to be Park‚ so who cares
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he never showed to the meeting. I really hope that I can find the LandLady to be not guilty and It was all a misunderstanding. Billy’s last whereabouts were in the Bed and Breakfast in Bath. We are hoping that he left for a business trip and forgot to mail his family. If we do find Billy to be dead‚ we will have to take a big step into investigating the LandLady. When I got to the spot where he last was‚ suddenly the LandLady emanated from inside the house. At first she was sweet as pie. She was
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