Disgrace Lesson Plan

Analyze the following passage:

“He speaks Italian, he speaks French, but Italian and French will not save him here in darkest Africa. He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron. Mission work: what has it left behind, that huge enterprise of upliftment? Nothing that he can see.”

What is David implying with his actions and thoughts?

Here, David speaking Western languages is juxtaposed with referring to Africa as “darkest Africa.” This juxtaposition shows that David has a colonial...