Quote 4
"Wake up, David. This is the country. This is Africa." (15.15)
Think carefully about what Lucy is saying when she says "this is Africa." David is from Johannesburg, and he has lived for many years in Cape Town – doesn't that mean anything? From Lucy's perspective, not a chance. Johannesburg and Cape Town are the two largest cities in South Africa; they are modern, bustling, and unfamiliar with the kinds of problems that face people out in the country. In Lucy's opinion, the country is the real Africa.
Quote 5
"It was so personal," she says. "It was done with such personal hatred. That was what stunned me more than anything. The rest was…expected. But why did they hate me so? I had never set eyes on them."
He waits for more, but there is no more, for the moment. "It was history speaking through them," he offers at last. "A history of wrong. Think of it that way, if it helps. It may have seemed personal, but it wasn't. It came down from the ancestors." (18.62-63)
Here, we get two different explanations for the hatred that Lucy felt from the men who raped her. On one hand, she felt it was an extremely personal act. David suggests, though, that it was a remnant of the injustices that existed in South Africa in the past, under which people like Lucy oppressed people like the attackers.