Quotes+&+Passages+-+The+Second+Hut

Writing Assignment: Copy two quotes or passages from the text that you believe are important in the story. Write them in quotation marks ("...") and include the page number on which the passage is found. For each quote or passage, write a text which puts the passage in context (Who said it? To whom? When? Why?) and explains why you chose it (What is its significance? What does it tell us about the story/the character/the conflict, etc.?).

"Then he paused, frightened, not so much at his range, but his humiliation and guilt." (Page 104; line 4-5) Major Carruthers realized that he is responsible for what had happened before. He is the manager of the little farm and he is the connection between the two groups of his workers; on the one hand the natives and on the other hand van Heerden and his family. So Carruthers could or should have acted as an agent between the groups, so that the “sleeping” and unexpressed conflict would not explode. In this quote we see that Major Carruthers feels guilty and sorry for the past and that he can not live any longer at this place.

"Before that season and his wife´s illness, he had thought things could get no worse: until then, proverty had meant not to...." (page 80, line 1- ? )

"Well, one comes and another goes," said Van Heerden at last, slowly, reaching out for philosophy as a comfort, while his eyes filled with rough tears. Major Carruthers stared: he could not understand." (Page 105; line 14-17)