In this scene, they were behaving nicely to the strange woman living in Budapest, but they are suddenly fed up with her wasting food, her questions, and her photos. Sometimes, the children seem overtaken with emotion, perhaps because of a lack of parental guidance and a helplessness from the way their lives have been uprooted. The woman just looks at us puzzled, like she has never heard anybody shout, and then quickly hurries back into the house but we shout after her, shout till we smell blood in our tickling throats. We shout and we shout and we shout we want to eat the thing she was eating, we want to hear our voices soar, we want our hunger to go away. She implies that people have been disappointed with her being born a girl, and we see this return later when her father calls her his son. This quote, early in the novel, makes the importance of gender clear, specifically as it relates to the protagonist, Darling. Gender is very important to life in Zimbabwe, and perhaps especially in an impoverished area like Paradise where the men hold a special role as providers for their families. I said supposed, didn't I? Bastard and Darling, p. The first baby is supposed to be a boy.īut you're a girl, big head, and you're first-born.
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