Global Inequality By Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing stimulates the responder’s imagination for change as she passionately addresses the memorable idea of global inequality. Lessing marries the idea of ‘dust’ and literary inequality, as the critical pending problems of humanity. Lessing utilises a series of anecdotes to depict a linear contrast of societal conditions, underlining the extent of global inequality. The opening passage draws a negative visual image of an uncut forest, a world forgotten and engulfed in dust, as she describes a Zimbabwean school as “four large brick rooms side by side, put straight into the dust”. She also states, “There is no atlas or globe in the school, no textbooks, no exercise books, no biros”. The use of asyndeton suggests an accumulation of inadequacy,

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