![]() “I was just passing the coppersmiths’ booths when somebody noticed that I was lighting a cigarette. Who is anyone to judge or put down for burial processes in another culture? It Is in western culture that a death along with the burial process is correlated with mourning and certain guidelines to burial. Touching upon the opening sentence once again, “As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later” (180.) This puts disgust not only in the mind of the reader but also The ones carrying the corpse should truly be disgusted with the fact that they are indeed carrying a fly infested corpse, but it is us the reader that visualizes this scene and correlates it with disgust. ![]() Something that needs to be touched upon is the use of sensory information, which gives authority and simulates imagination. As well as materialistic snobbery in the way that these people of Marrakech will never have what the storyteller had: cigarettes, enough bread to spare for a gazelle, and a small handful of change given to an elderly woman. Hope in the way that Marrakech is doomed with poverty and racial inequality, careless remorse in relation to being a witness to all of the poverty and backwardness of the land, with no intent of trying to fix it.
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