“It was not rape”, David Lori raped his student Melanie Isaacs. David, a womanizer, needed sexual gratification, he acquired his satisfaction thru prostitution, and his addiction ultimately ended his career. When David took part in inappropriate relations with his student Melanie. After the incident with Melanie, he lost everything he became a disgrace. David stayed with his daughter Lucy on her farm where she tried making a respectable independent life for herself. Lucy got raped by two African American men and a black boy, Petrus Lucy’s employ turned neighbor, protected the perpetrator the perpatrtor became because he became family thru marige theirfor petrus protected him .
Disgrace was written in 1999 just a few years after the long …show more content…
He and his daughter are not getting off the hook lightly at all! He can burn he can die; and if he can die, then so can Lucy above all Lucy.” The men murder the dogs well as assault David leaving him badly burned. “As he lies sprawled he is splashed from head to foot with liquid. As it says in the book His eyes burn, he tries to wipe them. He recognizes the smell: Methylated spirits. Struggling to get up, he is pushed back into the lavatory. The scrape of a match, and at once he is bathed in cool blue flame.” They stale David’s car the most horrifying action they took was raping Lucy. David was not present when this took place, so we do not otain an accurate account of what happen. But we do read the after math, and a deep catastrophic downfall when Lucy falls apart. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confident, modern young woman." Lucy cannot sleep in her bed and would rather stay in a make shift closet then in the place the horror took place. After what the men did to her. To the contrary when David raped Melanie we only saw from his point of view. The trauma that happened to Lucy can make you think. Being traumatize in that way as well. That was Coetzee trying to say out was that rape does not have to be violent to be to be considered
Disgrace was written in 1999 just a few years after the long …show more content…
He and his daughter are not getting off the hook lightly at all! He can burn he can die; and if he can die, then so can Lucy above all Lucy.” The men murder the dogs well as assault David leaving him badly burned. “As he lies sprawled he is splashed from head to foot with liquid. As it says in the book His eyes burn, he tries to wipe them. He recognizes the smell: Methylated spirits. Struggling to get up, he is pushed back into the lavatory. The scrape of a match, and at once he is bathed in cool blue flame.” They stale David’s car the most horrifying action they took was raping Lucy. David was not present when this took place, so we do not otain an accurate account of what happen. But we do read the after math, and a deep catastrophic downfall when Lucy falls apart. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confident, modern young woman." Lucy cannot sleep in her bed and would rather stay in a make shift closet then in the place the horror took place. After what the men did to her. To the contrary when David raped Melanie we only saw from his point of view. The trauma that happened to Lucy can make you think. Being traumatize in that way as well. That was Coetzee trying to say out was that rape does not have to be violent to be to be considered