At the very start of the story, we realise that she is not someone who is familiar with English as her sentences are broken up and her grammar is wrong. This is called patois. The term “patois” is used to refer to a variety of nonstandard languages, including provincial dialects, pidgin languages, and creole languages. One well known example of patois is the variety of English spoken in Jamaica, which is known as Jamaican patois or simply patois.
The first example of the racism faced by her is when she says, “The man drunk already at that early hour and he abuse me”. He then demands one month’s rent in advance out of the blue, that too just after her life savings have been stolen and Selina suspects that her landlady is the culprit. Her landlord then kicks her out off the house without giving her a single chance. This is the first racist incident that causes her view on life to start changing.
An example of how this incident affects her is when she says that, “when I it take up the dress and remember how the landlady kick it I cry.” This statement goes to show that the incident with the landlady left her greatly traumatised. This is the first effect of the racism that Selina has to face. This depression is one of the reasons why she starts to drink non-stop and stops communicating or socialising with people.
She is than taken in by another English man, Mr. Sims, and finds herself in a damp half-furnished flat, surrounded by neighbours scornful of her colour and especially of her voice. There is another family that lives in the neighbourhood. Selina tries talking to her at first but she is ignored and her husband stares at Selina as if she is some wild “animal let loose”, another way through which Jean Rhys shows the racism in London at that time.
Later in the story she has a confrontation with the same couple. The lady starts mocking her by being sarcastic and saying “Must you stay? Can’t you go?” Selina tries to ignore her and continues singing loudly, which results in the man calling the police and having her arrested. The neighbours try to anger her more by scorning her. This causes her to get angry and start shouting about her rights and about the police being biased and not bothering to look for her money. In the end, she goes to court and is fined five pounds.
After this incident, Selina becomes more isolated and hardly ever leaves her house. But there is another incident with the couple and this time she breaks their window. This is when we come to the turning point in her life. She is arrested and sent to prison. One way Jean Rhys builds up fear is by making the officer say just “Holloway” when Selina asks where they are taking her. The word has a sinister aspect to it and strikes fear into her heart. She is so scared that she says a prayer, “This is the last time I ask anything from anybody. So help me god.”
Even at the jail, she is treated differently from the other rich white inmates. The throw her possessions away and treat her like garbage. This is how Jean Rhys shows that racism had no boundaries at that time and that everyone was racist. The effects of all the racism she has faced till now show up. She says “it’s as if my heart is hard as rock and I can’t feel.” She even ends up considering if committing suicide would be such a bad idea as no one cares about her anyway. This is evidence of how much harm racism can bring to a person mentally and psychologically. These are just the main incidents of racism that she faces and effects of them. There are also several more minute ones throughout the short story.
just put the entire contents of the skidrow folder into the root folder, then when you run the game, right click and run as administrator, works fine, i just completed the first mission, no problems, im on widows7X64
Besides the Virus that AVIRA finds in the "Steambackup.exe" supposedly finds, after disabling Avira i could run the Install without problems. Game works fine on WIN7 (32Bit). No crashes. Savegames work.
All together seems fine.
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