DISGRACE
J.M. COETZEE
REVIEW
CHARACTER POEM
Rough, Worn-out, Masculine
Lucy and Melanie
Flirting, Boring, Complaining
(Cape Town, South Africa) and (Salem, South Africa)
I do not like how he tries to have an affair with his student.
FAVORITE PASSAGE
I like this passage because it talks about despair and how each one of has it. We all hope for things to happen but there has been at least one where you had been hopeless, and that is why I like how J.M Coetzee describes despair in this passage.
Cape Town, South Africa
This novel is set in South Africa and Cape Town is where the story starts and where David Lurie gets into trouble. By getting in trouble, it forces him to move on from Cape Town and is job from which he got fired from. He will eventually move back to Cape Town but find that nothing is here for him and then moves back to Salem.
David Lurie
Getting in trouble is as small as you can say it, David Lurie had an affair and was fired from his job. This event allowed him to move on in his life, which he will get into more trouble down the road and it is bad news for David. If David would of never had an affair then he would not have experienced the robbing later in the novel.
Salem, South Africa
When David Lurie had moved from Cape Town, he came to Salem where his daughter, Lucy, lived. This is where David will stay with his daughter and eventually get robbed toward the end. David leaves Salem to move back to Cape Town, but eventually comes back to Salem to work with Bev in the animal shelter.