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I will spit on your graves
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By Mhamed Jaafar FILALI
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I will spit on your graves
Jean Asquith made a pledge to Lee Anderson: I sleep with you, yes, but after I kill you. Lee Anderson about him only wants to sleep with the girl Asquith before he kills her. This troubling paradox, which takes place in a manner hidden throughout the book by Boris Vian is becoming at the end of pages "I'll spit on your graves", a true anthem for hate. Lee Anderson after joining a band of young white Americans at Buckton, has slept with every girl in the group. He said of himself that he is Swedish, but his dark complexion betray its origins from the beginning. Thus, the humanity of the whites is their bestiality. Never, Dexter or Jicky or Judy or Jean or even Lou Asquith will dare tell him they did not want his presence with them. They will be treated him as a brother, sharing with him
their bourbon, bread, their lodging. Lee Anderson, meanwhile, African-American, he will either not give up what he is: a killer of whites. After making love with Jean Asquith, the first thing that comes to his mind is to liquidate her. The girl Asquith also kept true to its principles,she cooked the same thing in her mind. After his work, the reality is a little hard to accept for Lee Anderson. The America of 1940 is an America where the power is and where white. Racism between whites and Black is the common currency. It had to be hanged, but on what graves he would spit now he was dead as well as girls Asquith? He was going to spit on the graves of whites. It was pouring hate on those who hanged him, the sergeant who caught in the barn and the villagers who wanted him dead, and of course his band of old friends who wanted him early dead.
Tags & Keywords : Boris Vian, african-american, hate, killing


