高英第二册 马拉喀什

• para1 'as the corpse went past....rushed after it' makes the scene more vivid • para2'they are merely wrapped in a piece of rag...like a derelict building-lot'describes the scene of the burial concretely • para2 the last sentence shows the pessimistic truth about the burial • para3 uses a lot of rhetorical devices such as rhetorical question,alliteration and euphemism to show sympathy
poor people cultivating the poor soil
• para 16 the first sentence'all people who work with their hands are partly invisible,and the more important the work they do,the less visible they are.'discloses the fact that people in Marrakech are both poor and on the low social status. • para 17 'what does Morocco mean to a Frenchman?...or to an Englishman?'shows the ruthless colonialism .
Analysis on Marrakech
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• Theme
• Language and words
The author express his outrage at the spectacle of misery in the following way: • 1.the factual description of the miserable life of the natives is in itself a reflection of the author's sympathy for the natives and the hatred for the rules. • 2.the author uses rhetorical questions to add force to his outrage.for example,"Are they really the same flesh as yours? Do they even have names?"
a young Negro mistreated by the whites
• para24 ‘no hostile,no contemptuous,not sullen, not even inquisitive.'shows the ignorance of the young Negro and the cheat from the whites.The young Negro should hate the whites but he shows respect instead. • para25 the author put a question of'how much longer can we go on kidding these people?How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?'to show his dissatisfaction and rage.
the miserable life of the Jews in the ghettos
• para 8 uses some rhetorical devices to describe the unpleasant living condition of the Jews. • para9 and para 10 uses a lot of contrasts to achieve the effect of irony and shows sympathy to the Jews. • para13'isn't it a fact that the average Jew is a labourer working for about a penny an hour'shows how little money the Jews earn directly.
The author talks about the invisibility of the natives at length to reveal the fact that the natives,especially those working by hands,are ranked rather low on the social hierarchy (等级制度，层次），leading the readers to think about the cruelty of colonialism and imperialism.
• 3. the author employs to show his sympathy for the poor. for example,in para15,he makes an analogy between the Jews and the poor old woman a couple of hundred years ago who used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal.
the burial of poor inhabitants
in his description of a burial scene,the writer suggests that, for the poverty-stricken people of Marrakech,a proper burial is impossible.The dead are carried on the backs of friends and family,thrown into a shallow,unmarked grave,which is barely covered by the 'lumpy earth',and then neglected.
Theme
The theme of this essay is that the natives in Marrakech are mistreated by the imperialists
and colonialists. He mercilessly exposes the
poverty,misery and degradation（潦倒）of the native people in the colonies.
a file of very old women carrying the fire wood
• para19'all of them are mummified with age and the sun,and all of them are tiny.'depicts the image of old women struggling for life and arises the readers' pity. • para19'she accepted her status as an old woman,that is to say, as a beast of burden.'and para20 describing the fate of a donkey all show the miserable life of women in this colony and make readers angry about the colonialism and imperialism.
Specific analysis on the six scenes
• • • • • the burial of poor inhabitants an Arab navvy begging for bread the miserable life of the Jews in the ghettos poor people cultivating the poor soil a file of very old women carrying the fire wood • a young Negro mistreated by the whites
an Arab navvy begging for bread
• para 5 the last sentence'probably its idea was that if it could drive me away the bread would somehow remian hanging in mid-air.'shows the animal is hungry as well as afraid of people . • para 6 these words 'sidle' 'shyly' and 'stowed it gratefully in some secret places under his rags'in para 7 show the navvy even a lot of people in Marrakech is too poor to afford the bread.