Coetzee part duece

I have to say I was getting a little choked up at the end when he was giving his dog over to Bev Shaw, I was kind of hoping he was going to take him but that would have defeated the whole purpose. But all in all, looking at the book as in a post- colonial way we get to see things from the other side. I think that was something I wasen't expecting but all I know is I have grown to really hate Petrus, and his role in reversing the racism. It really started to hit me when they went to Petrus's party and we are told they are the only white people there and were looked upon differently. The post - colonial aspects of it, to me, were kind of difficult to find in the regular way. I thought eveything was kind of flip flopped to a certain degree. I felt like David and Lucy were more the victims of post-colonial ideas then anyone else. "Yes. He is a child. He is my family, my people. So that is it. No more lies. My People. As nacked an answer as he could wish. Well, Lucy is his people." From there on I was always hoping in the back of my mind that David would physically harm Petrus but there were moments when David would feel the same way. But I have to say on his behalf, he had all the right after they raped his daughter, because if that happened to me, I would have not been able to bite my tounge and walk away as David did. But he does think things like this, "Phrases that all his life he has avoided seem suddenly just and right: Teach him a lesson, Show him his place. So this is what it is like, he thinks! This is what it is like to be a savage!" The narrator tells us that he avoided such thoughts all his life but out of these circumstances he had the right to think this way. And I think that goes back to the colonazation, that in the end, he does think that way about certain people. But like I said, it is hard to blame him for such feelings after what had happened. The narrator through the second half of the book did not seem as important because of how David was changing through the novel. In the beginning when he was more selfish and womenizing, the narrator would speak to us differently then at the end. And to be honest, I liked it better in the first half, then in the second.