In the extract, what impression do you get of the relationship between the British and the Burmese?

Annotations:

• vocabulary describing British installations metaphorical? parallel to white population?

1. Flory

   Annotations:

   • male main character. first seen drunk = negative "bloody, bloody" = very English. Obnoxious?
   1. half drunk previous night

      Annotations:

      • "liverish"
   2. Seems obnoxious, disrespectful

      Annotations:

      • shouts "bloody hole" out loud to the tune of a religious song
2. Installations
   1. bungalows

      Annotations:

      • "dazzling white"
   2. cemetery

      Annotations:

      • "English", "white wall"
   3. church

      Annotations:

      • "tiny" "tin-roofed"
   4. Club

      Annotations:

      • "European" "dumpy One-storey wooden building" "proud boast" "never admitted an Oriental for membership" = intensely racist & posh

Annotations:

• colourful, interesting, imagery

1. Irrawaddy

   Annotations:

   • "huge and ochreous" "glittering like diamonds" "patches that caught the sun"
2. Native town

   Annotations:

   • "hidden in green groves of peepul trees" described as peaceful, tranquil village disturbed by English arrival
   1. pagoda

      Annotations:

      • "rose from the trees like a slender spear tipped with gold"
3. the mali

   Annotations:

   • meaning gardener
   1. compared to an animal

      Annotations:

      • "some large nectar-sucking bird"
4. gardens & plants

   Annotations:

   • Burmese are nameless but described, British are named but enhanced by Burmese climate