ENGL 2P53 Lecture 15: ENGL 2P53 Depiction of Prawns in District 9
15 Mar 2016
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By general public: botom feeders (low on evoluionary scale) echoes many racist, genocidal depicions (jews as vermin, tutsis as cockroaches in rwanda genocide, africans as. This depicion quesioned by sociologist sarah livingstone (one of talking heads from kempton. Academic criiques have no inluence on public aitudes or implementaion of policy. Almost constantly in a posiion of reacing to violence, deprivaion, intervenion. Used by nigerians for something like dog ights, and because nigerians want their weapon systems: only iniiate violence at end of ilm to atack kobus and protect wikus. Is devastated when his friend is killed during irst raid of his shack. Ater seeing the cruel experiments, decides he has to get prawns back home before helping. Wikus (hence, 3 year delay: when wikus is in danger, stays to help him, puing his own life at risk. Other prawns: other prawns, seeing kobus closing in on wikus, group around him in solidarity, atack and eviscerate kobus.
