Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Cone Gatherers - Class
Conflict
- "We didn't treat them fairly."
- Roderick is the only person who sees the brothers as his equal.
- "We could've perished in the storm,
for all she cared. Was that not
murder?
- LRC sees them as less important - she knew how bad the storm
was yet sent them out in it. Highlights that she believes they're
below her and her family.
- "We're human beings just like them."
- Highlights that they're being treated
with lesser respect. Also that the higher
classes do not believe they are similar -
yet Neil suggests they are.
- "They were to be like insects,"
- Dehumanising them - they are at the
bottom of the societal food chain. Insect -
suggests insignificance, metaphor of
physical smallness highlights symbolic
smallness
- "Yonder's a house with fifty rooms... every one
of them three times the size if our hut and
nearly all of them empty."
- Sense of unfairness - Neil's envy of the rich and his
hatred of being poor. Rich vs. Poor - they have
much room to spare whilst the brothers have no
space at all.