The Lonely Londoners Analysis. From the first section of this extract it is apparent that racism is a key theme and that it will be widely used throughout as a young child says to his or her mother mummy, look at that black man

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The Lonely Londoners

From the first section of this extract it is apparent that racism is a key theme and that it will be widely used throughout as a young child says to his or her mother “mummy, look at that black man” as it was a “little child” that said it suggest the innocence of the comment and also that they do not know any difference. Galahad does not appear to take offence to the child’s remarks as he replies with “what a sweet child!” the way he states how sweet the child is, again, highlights the racism. It also sounds slightly sarcastic as if he is implying that the child is not sweet at all. However, the way he says what a sweet child may suggest that, deep down, the comments do affect him as he says it “putting on the old English accent implying that he is desperate to fit in and is possibly ashamed of his culture due to the remarks he has received throughout his life. The way he says it also emphasises the divide between reality and appearance; reality being what has just happened and appearance being that he tries to fit appear ‘normal’ and fit in but in reality he never will in the situation he is in. A metaphor is used to highlight that Galahad is not affected by the racism: “when rain fall – everything running off” entailing the idea that maybe he has had so many racial remarks towards him nothing really affects him anymore.

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Galahad personifies the colour black: “colour, is you that causing all this” implying that he does not understand why he is receiving racist comments other than for the colour of his skin. From this we can also identify that Galahad accuses the colour black as being the source of all his problems again focusing on the fact that he may be ashamed of who he is based on his culture and the colour of his skin. He to get over the racist comments by making a joke “can’t be blue, or red or green, if you can’t be white?” implying ...

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