play on words

in this he not only refers to the literal sense of eating and disposing of a living being, but also refers to the fact that people look at other people "as meals", their thoughts, their passions, their personality, everything one possesses. All of those things get consumed by others, "digested", stripping off everything, and get "farted" out to decompose, leaving nothing from the person being "eaten". p(115)

Intertextuality - Refers to the Greek god of shepherds Pan, who is depicted as a man with the horns, legs and tail of a goat. In the next sentence Dambudzo refers to himself as a such creature at least in spirit, if not in form. In saying "how could I kill that beast in me?" he is telling us that in killing that animal he would kill himself spiritually. (p.112)

In European culture, purple has often been associated as a royal color, meant only for royal and ruling figures throughout history. This reference shows that Jet is not only appointed to being an assistant boarding master, giving him some power, but he thinks of himself as a ruler, an arrogant ruler. p.79

Edmund's description here can be very easily compared to Marachera's style and themes in his own writing. He uses the same themes as Edmund and as it seems it is very hard for him to finish anything - a sentence, an idea, the novel. p.78

recurring theme of the narrator hiding and not wanting to know or lacking pleasant feelings. (p.58)

So that explains the very strange and out of place passage with the room and the strange creatures and events.

This whole passage of the storm gives another perspective to what was going on in the narrators head - the rain being 'them' (the figures in his head), which destroys and floods everything, leaving it in ruins. (p.44)

Once again showing the vast difference in mindset and thoughts between the 'intellectuals' and the 'others'. (p.38)

Those two sentences convey the exact same thing, but in two very different ways. The first sentence is structured in a more complex way with words not used in casual and everyday speech, while the second one uses very ordinary, straight-forward, 'everyday' words and construction. This difference between the two sentences also presents the vast gap between the 'intellectuals' and the 'others' in this community. (p. 38)

Harry's remark goes to show how bad the situation among the black people is. They are not only racists towards their own race, but demeaning each other in every way possible.

Grotesque and vivid imagery, depicting the misery people live in, but also there is a very stark contrast. This contrast between the misery of the blacks and the "good world" and profit white people are making from that misery, thus "humming Hallelujah".

"An act or situation that provokes or justifies a war."

 - Definition from Oxford Languages