Insignificant Gestures Essay

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’’Insignificant gestures’’ ’’Insignificant gestures’’ is a short story written by Jo Cannon. And is about a man, who looks back at his life in Africa. The narrator in this short story, who is also the main character is looking back in time, and is telling how his life was then and how it was different from now. He is telling about what it was like working in Africa as a health officer, the circumstances was not as they are in the west, and he sometimes could not see how he could help the people, he walked around the patients who was laying on straw mattresses on the ground. In Africa he did not seem like he was happy, but he had one thing that could lit his mood up, his native housekeeper Celia Dimba. He found out one night, that she like him, could draw, and he was impressed by how detailed she did her pictures. One day he is called in to a ward for Celia, he hears at the hospital that Celia had got beating up by her boyfriend and when he sees her, he could not recognize her, and she was unconscious. He realized, that they could not help her at that hospital, and he had to send her to a bigger on, and hour and a half away, to see if they could help. When he was at the police station, to give a description of Celia, her boyfriend got locked up behind bars, but about six weeks later, he reads an email, where it says that Celia had meningitis, and that was what caused her death. He tried to save her boyfriend, from getting to prison, and he suddenly realized that he could have saved her. Celia was a native African women, she was not that old, about 17 or 18 years. She lived at the narrators house, and went back home in the weekends, her whole family was depending on her. She slept on a mattress in a house in the garden, and during the day, she would iron his clothes, and plant things in the garden. She did not do so many things, because the narrator was not

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