The Deliverer

Question 1

crippled or dark or girls

Answer 1

syndeton/tricolon

girls at the end emphatic of their lack of importance
likens femininity to a disabilty

Question 2

why is there an ambiguous speaker and use of detatched language

Answer 2

to represent the girl’s confusion over her identity/belonging

Question 3

example of the ambiguous speaker

Answer 3

this is the one my mother will bring

Question 4

covered
stuffed
abandoned

Answer 4

unserstated verbs - emphatic of the horror of the treatment of these girls, there is no need to use figurative language to make it seem worse

Question 5

why does Doshi take a minimalist approach

Answer 5

to emphasise the brutal reality of the treatment of female children in India

Question 6

dug up by a dog

Answer 6

plosive alliteration emphatic of the aggressive and brutal reality

Question 7

was bone or wood, something to chew

Answer 7

girls as discardable

Question 8

this is the one my mother will bring

Answer 8

ambiguity over speaker

use of the pronoun ‘this’ and detatched tone emphatic of how she lacks identity and therefore significance

Question 9

don’t know of her fetish

Answer 9

nervous behaviour as a result of her trauma

prolongued trauma - doesn’t settle with her adopted family either

Question 10

her mother tried to bury her

Answer 10

minimalistic language and end stop

emphatic of the callous sense of brutality

Question 11

We couldn’t stop crying (in Italics)

Answer 11

regret from the mother?
Italics emphatic of her regret - humanizes the mother

Question 12

this girl shows up on video tapes

Answer 12

metaphor for sense of detatchment

Question 13

enjambement in ‘she’s passed from woman// to woman.’

Answer 13

enj emphatic of her prolongued trauma - passed over multiple times

Question 14

she returns to twilight corners

Answer 14

the darkness of her past

corners indicate secrecy - link to the concealment of infanticide

Question 15

outside village boundaries

Answer 15

emphatic of her othered status

Question 16

where mothers go to squeeze out life

Answer 16

dual meaning (giving birth and murdering) - creating a juxtaposing images

Question 17

watch body slither out from body

Answer 17

biblical context - link to eve - women as untrustworthy/undeserving ?

Question 18

feel for penis or no penis

Answer 18

parallel - significant decisions coming down to gender

Question 19

toss the baby to the heap of the others

Answer 19

casual verb emphatic of the callous brutality and lack of care for girls

the heap of the others makes a direct reference to the scale of the issue of infanticide

Question 20

trudge home to lie down for their men again

Answer 20

single line stanza emphatic

the mothers are also victims to the patriarchy