Petrus Lucy's Disgrace

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“It was not rape”, David Lori raped his student Melanie Isaacs. David, a womanizer, had to satisfy his needs thru prostitution, and inappropriate relations with his student Melanie Isaacs. After the incident with Melanie, he lost everything he was a disgrace. David went to his daughter Lucy’s farm where she tried to make an independent life for herself. Lucy got raped by two African American men and a black boy. Petrus Lucy’s employ turned neighbor protected of the perpetrator because he was family. Disgrace was written in 1999 just a few years after the long standing apartheid was abolished. The reasons that the African American population might have played a more deceitful role in the book disgrace. separation between the whites and the African American in South Africa for nearly fifty years was designed to make the African American people inferior to their Wight counterparts. In that respect, the race had major implications in the novel. The three men brake in to the house, they get in asking for the phone, the reason the men need the phone is his sister that is having a baby, and the men come from a neighborhood with no electricity or telephone following the theme that African American people are inferior to whites. “So he is wrong! He and his daughter are not getting off the hook lightly at all! He can burn he can die; and if he can die, then so…show more content…
He says I quote “not anymore the dog- man” the superficial meaning of the comment was that the dogs got shot, there for there are no more dogs to take care of. But the deeper meaning of the statement is petreses claiming social status, which the dogs represent. The dogs seem to represent Petrus in a hire social status to the contrary the dogs seem to resemble David’s demise. In the beginning of the book, he was a well-resected professor, and then he became the dog man in a sense helping Bev Shaw, dispose of the desisted
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