Extra Credit

            Paton makes a clear distinction in the roles of both female and male. Males are clearly the superior gender back then, unlike today. The men are involved in decision making, and the women get no say in the matter. Women are seen as weaker, and less intelligent. "...some with blankets over the semi-nudity of their primitive dress, though these were all women. Men traveled no longer in primitive dress."(43) In this quote it shows that men look at women as sort of a disgrace; they dress in a matter that no man would dare wear. These examples effect the text by showing men just walk all over women, and it gives us readers a biased perspective of the story. Me being a girl, I do not think this is fair at all. I think women are stronger than men in many ways, and for them not to think that is extremely rude. Paton even says, "Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it,and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute "(40). This just shows that men's decisions and choices hurt women. In this story I feel like there is a lack of consideration and care for women in general; the focus is mostly on the problems men are facing.

Coding for CTBC

Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.





Key:
3rd person POV
Characterization 
Alliteration
Odd punctuation
Repitition

Gender Roles

Paton show a clear distinction between the roles of both males and females. Woman are suppose to serve the men in this book, and their opinions have no influence on the men. In this novel Paton even says "Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it,and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute "(40). The men in this book make all the decisions, and the women get no say. The men order the women around made clear several times in the first chapters of this book "Bring me  the St. Chad's money"(38) "Go to the mother then. Perhaps she has some food"(35) This shows that the men can't do anything themselves at home. He tells his wife to go fetch him something (why don't you get up and get it yourself you lazy old man). He tells the small child to go to the mother and see if she has food for her, when he could have gone with her and said well, let's see if we have any food for you. The gender roles clearly show the superiority of man vs woman.