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Katrinarc Posted 15 years ago
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Confusing reference of "it"
Hi, I don't quite understand the reference of the pronoun "it". I find it difficult to understand what the writer conveys with the expression "it's suddenly easy for anyone". Can you help me? Thank you!
Coming into the new 'black republic' of Transkei from the north, I was out of it again almost at once and then in again. The road leads through an área and town 'excised' for whites. On the map these blobs and trickles of black and white, marking off the 87 per cent of the Republic of South África reserved by 4 million whites for themselves from the 13 per cent offered to 18 million blacks,2 are an ethnic Rorschach test whose logic is to be understood only by initiates of the political of apartheid; from the road, it’s suddenly easy for anyone. Passing before one's eyes, the perfect contours of vast lands ploughed and crops reaped by machine, the barns full of bright farming equipment, the pedigreed stock, the privacy of trees and gardens drawn round the fine farmstead of the white área change abruptly to the black area's uneven strips cultivated by hand-plough, the bare hills with their dises of mud huts and squares of spiky agave enclosures for motley beasts herded by children. The only machinery is the occasional wrecked car, dragged offthe road and picked clean.
Coming into the new 'black republic' of Transkei from the north, I was out of it again almost at once and then in again. The road leads through an área and town 'excised' for whites. On the map these blobs and trickles of black and white, marking off the 87 per cent of the Republic of South África reserved by 4 million whites for themselves from the 13 per cent offered to 18 million blacks,2 are an ethnic Rorschach test whose logic is to be understood only by initiates of the political of apartheid; from the road, it’s suddenly easy for anyone. Passing before one's eyes, the perfect contours of vast lands ploughed and crops reaped by machine, the barns full of bright farming equipment, the pedigreed stock, the privacy of trees and gardens drawn round the fine farmstead of the white área change abruptly to the black area's uneven strips cultivated by hand-plough, the bare hills with their dises of mud huts and squares of spiky agave enclosures for motley beasts herded by children. The only machinery is the occasional wrecked car, dragged offthe road and picked clean.
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Hi, I don't quite understand the reference of the pronoun "it". I find it difficult to understand what the writer conveys with the expression "it's suddenly easy for anyone". Can you help me?
- Hi, I don't quite understand the reference of the pronoun "it".
- I find it difficult to understand what the writer conveys with the expression "it's suddenly easy for anyone".
- Can you help me?
- Thank you!
- I 've used pink to highlight the parallel ideas in the parts before and after the semi-colon.
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Hi,
I don't quite understand the reference of the pronoun "it". I find it difficult to understand what the writer conveys with the expression "it's suddenly easy for anyone". Can you help me? Thank you!
I've used pink to highlight the parallel ideas in the parts before and after the semi-colon.
'It' refers
I don't quite understand the reference of the pronoun "it". I find it difficult to understand what the writer conveys with the expression "it's suddenly easy for anyone". Can you help me? Thank you!
I've used pink to highlight the parallel ideas in the parts before and after the semi-colon.
'It' refers
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The sentence is saying that if you were to look at the map, you would see a confusing Rorshach image (random blobs of white and black, which indicate the territories dominated by white or black people) that only few people understand. But if you were to go for a drive along the roads, then you would be able to tell the difference between a territory dominated by blacks and one dominated by whites
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