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A 6 page paper which examines and analyzes various types of relationships in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. No additional sources cited.
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Africa. They are white, and the story is clearly focused on the white experience within Africa, while addressing father/daughter relationships, sexual issues, selfishness, identity, violence, culture and many other issues
that are essentially a part of life. Within this story are many relationships. The following paper examines, after providing a brief summary, relationships between whites and blacks, whites and whites,
and humans and animals. Throughout these relationships the book is essentially one about redemption for the main character of Lurie. Summary As mentioned, the primary character is Lurie,
David Lurie. At the beginning of the novel he is a professor and he engages in sexual activity with a prostitute once a week. When she takes a break from
their relationship he begins to pursue a student, Melanie. He is brought up on charges at the school and fired. He then decides he will go live with his daughter
who runs something of a small farm in a different region of Africa. They have a tense relationship at best, and one evening there are attacked at her home and
she is raped. The remainder of the novel has the daughter slowly recovering, refusing to leave that region, and Lurie coming to terms with himself, his daughter, and his problems
in life. Relationships: Blacks and Whites Considering that Lurie, and his daughter Lucy, are white and living in Africa one must
assume there are relationships that involve whites and blacks, especially when the story is about white people and the blacks in the story are often the lesser individuals. For the
most part the blacks in the story are marginal in their existence and their importance. They are perhaps catalysts of change for the white people, but they are not otherwise
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