key moment 8 - racist sam

sam’s nonchalance and rebellion

‘smouldering cigarette dangling from his lips’

‘sly grin curling’

description of sam

‘sensed this unspoken support’

‘confident now’

‘new hair cut’

‘blonde bullet’

sam mocking the coloured people

‘Uncle’

‘some darkies’

‘some w-’

the visceral impact on meena

‘punched in the stomach’

legs felt watery’

reaction of the people

‘one huge eyeball’

‘swivelled slowly between me and papa’

papa’s response

‘staring into the distance, seemingly unconcerned’

shock

‘opening and closing like a goldfish’

meenas rhetorical questions due to her confusion surprise and shock

“who was that? who said that? who had thought this al this time and why had i never known about it”

meena basically dissociated

‘my ears had stopped ringing and i gradually returned to my body’

sam condemned

‘bloody disgrace sam lowbridge!’

anita supporting sam

‘in’t he bosting’

meena standing up to anita

‘yow am a bloody stupid cow sometimes’

safe space for meena

‘haven of papa’s arms’