Verwerkingsopdracht A9

Kies 3 passages uit het boek die een belangrijke persoon goed beschrijven. Licht je keuze toe.

Noel Strachan, the main character, is partner of a firm of solicitors in Chancery Lane, Owen, Dalhousie, and Peters. Arthur Paget had been killed in a motor car accident and wanted to redraft his will to make a trust in favour of his sister Jean and her tow children. Noel took that case. He found out something about it and talks about it to his colleague.
I chose this passage, because the way of doing shows him exactly. He likes to think a bit before taking any precipitate action and every move is very well-considered. In the end of this part his partner says he’s a ‘Fairy Godfather’. I find that that description does fit to him, since he is like a father of Jean. He orders Jean’s business often and I think the age, he is about seventy, is important on my feeling. An old man correspond with a wise (wo)man, as they have knowledge of life.
Passage 1, page 1:
Presently I got up from my desk and stood for a time looking out of the window at the bleak, grey, January London street. I like to think a bit before taking any precipitate action. Then I turned and went through into Robinsons’s office; he was dictating, and I stood warming myself at his fire till he had finished and the girl had left the room.
‘I’ve got that Macfadden heir,’ I said. ‘I’ll tell Harris.’
‘All right,’ he replied. ‘You’ve found the son?’
‘No,’ I said. ‘I’ve found the daughter. The son’s dead.’
He laughed. ‘Bad luck. That means we’re trustees for the estate until she’s thirty-five, doesn’t it?’
I nodded.
‘How old is she now?’
I calculated for a minute. ‘Twenty-six or twenty-seven.’
‘Old enough to make a packet of trouble for us.’
‘I know.’
‘Where is she? What’s she doing?’
‘She’s employed as a clerk or typist with a firm of handbag manufacturers in Perivale,’ I said. ‘I’m just abut to concoct a letter to her.’
He smiled. ‘Fairy Godfather.’
‘Exactly,’ I replied.

A stock-rider is in trouble and Joe and Jean are with him. They need help of the hospital, so Jean rode forty miles on a horse to tell where Joe was making an airstrip. The ringer in trouble is saved by air. Now the wife of the Australian cowboy is very relieved with the saving of her husband. In the huge deserts of Australia the people have to use a radio for messages or cases of emergency. They’re talking about the things that occurred on the radio and accidents that happen in Queens land. So about the calamity of the stock-men too.
Jean Paget is a go-getter and this segment shows that. She starts several parlours and other little stores. Riding forty miles in the desert is very hard, especially if you have only been astride a horse six times before. I think this describes Jean quite well. The people talk also about miss Paget and the English girl, because she isn’t married yet and she is a young foreign girl.
Passage 2, page 319, 320:
He turned his switch and said, ‘It’s not only God you’ve got to thank, Mrs Curtis.’ He was very well aware that most of the housewives in a hundred thousand square miles of the Gulf country would be listening in to this conversation, and one good turn deserves another. ‘Miss Paget rode forty miles down from the top end of Midhurst to bring this message about Don. You know Jean Paget, the English girl that’s started the shoe workshop and the ice-cream shop? She was out at Midhurst spending the day when we heard Don was missing, and she rode forty miles to tell me where this airstrip was to be. She’s only been astride a horse six times before, and the poor girl’s so sore she can’t stand. Sister Douglas has her in the hospital for a good rest. She’ll be all right in a day or two. Over.’
She said, ‘Oh my word. I don’t know what to say to thank her. Give her my very dearest love, and I do hope she’ll be better soon.’ There was a pause, and then she said, ‘I’ve been so troubled in my mind about that ice-cream parlour. It didn’t seem right to have a thing like that in Willstown, and opening it on Sundays and Christmas Day and all. I couldn’t find nothing in the Bible either for or against it, and I’ve been that perplexed. But now it seems God had that under His hand like everything else. I do think it’s wonderful. Over.’
‘That’s right,’ said Sergeant Haines non-committally. He had been uncertain about the shop closing hours himself and had written to his head office for guidance; it was a good long time since he had been in a district where there was a shop to close. ‘Now I must sign off, Mrs Curtis. Eight Queen Charlie, this is Eight Love Mike. It’s okay here if you want to close down your listening watch for tonight, Jackie. I’d like to have a listening watch in daylight hours tomorrow, from seven o’clock on. Is this Roger? Over.’
Miss Bacon said, ‘That is Roger, sergeant. I’ll tell Mr Barnes. If you have nothing more for me, I shall close down. Over.’
‘Nothing more, Jackie. Goodnight. Out.’
‘Goodnight, Sergeant. Out’

Jean Paget was a prisoner of Japanese guards in Malaya, Siam, while she met Joe Harman. The Japanese commandants didn’t know what they’d to do with their prisoners, since they haven’t any camp to put them in. So they send their captives again and again to another places. One day the woman prisoners met two truckers, who were prisoners also.
Joe Harman is an Australian man who loves his homeland, as he calls himself an Aussie. The typical Australian expressions like ‘Oh my word’ and ‘Dinky-die’ demonstrates where he is coming from. His deliberated way of talking explains it too. The loneliness in de ‘Gulf country’(Queens land) of Joe is explained in the last sentences. In the outback aren’t a lot of women, because there is nothing to do for a woman. So Joe never thought he would speak the first time to a woman like her. In this book Joe don’t look up to aboriginals or native people in Malaya or the Japanese soldiers. He calls his ‘Abo’s’ ‘boongs’ and the Japanese ‘Nips’. In the second paragraph he looks a bit suspicious against straits-born people too.
Passage 3, page 341:
The men rolled out from under the truck and sat staring at the women and the children, at the brown skins, the sarongs, the bare feet. ‘Who said that?’ asked the man with the spanner....








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