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Week 31
Literature
Purpose
In "The Light of Gandhi's Lamp." Hilary Kromberg Inglis writes about how she feels before meeting
her sister's jailer
And here I was wanting to reach out to take his hands in mine, to make him Gentle to settle the
demons he thought he saw in my sister's face. I wanted to tame him to save my sister's life could
I do that only nineteen years old, a white girl on the other side in his eyes, a traitor a communic
with viciously dishonorable intentions of overthrowing the white apartheid government?
What does this passage suggest about Inglis's view of her situation
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It suggests in plain language, he belief that it would be imponsible for her to secure her
sister's release
it suggests with vivid language, her sense of being seen as a dangerous tovonary
ty the authorities in South Africa
it suggests with great subtlety, her feeling that the authontes were wrong to think that
she wanted to overthrow the govement
without having directly beigness to enter
D
order to save the life of her sleer
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