Half-Caste vs The Class Game

Dictation - Half-Caste

“Explain yuself what yu mean”

“In fact some o dem cloud half-caste till dem overcast”

“Wid de whole of yu mind”

Dictation - The Class Game

“With an ‘Olly in me mouth Down me nose, wear an ‘at not a scarf”

“‘Cos we live in a corps”

“Have I a label on me head, and another on me bum?”

Teaching & Confrontation - Half-Caste

“But yu must come back tommorw”

“Explain yuself wha yu mean”

“An I will tell yu de other half of my story”

Teaching & Confrontation - The Class Game

“How can you tell what class I’m from?”

“Why do you care what class I’m from?”

“Well, mate!”

Humanisation - Half-Caste (Synedoche)

“Half of mih ear”… “half of mih eye”

“I half-caste human being cast half-a-shadow” → half human deformed

“I’m sure you’ll understand why I offer yu half-a-hand”

Humanisation - The Class Game

“Me say ‘Tara’ to me ‘Ma’ instead of ‘Bye Mummy dear’?”

“Is it because my hands are stained with toil?”

“A cleaner is me mother A docker is me brother”

“say toilet instead of bog when I want to pee?”