IB English 11
10/2/2013
The Assault Close Reading
In part one of the Assault, Anton
is in a jail cell with a communist woman who is talking about a poem
she wants to write, “I wanted to compare love to the kind of light you sometimes
see clinging to trees right after a sunset: the magical sort of light … Hate is
darkness, that’s no good. And yet we got to hate Fascist, and that’s conceded perfectly
all right. How is that possible? It’s because we hate them in them in the name
of the light … and for this reason our hate is better than theirs” (Mulisch 38).
Basically the woman is emphasizing the irony in hate. The Nazis hate pretty much everyone
who is unlike them, and because people dislike that hate they are forced to
hate the Nazis back. She saying that the only way to get rid of this “darkness”
is by creating more darkness, but because they are hating on haters than they
are actually are good. Haters’ goanna Hate!!!
Maybe this goes without saying, but you should delete the last line. The majority of the post is a quote. Take some additional time to unpack/analyze its language.
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