Life passes by so quickly; things go so fast. I have spent most of my life on the land that I own. It is a little piece of land that I've considered as my home sweet home. It is a place where I find joy, peace and happiness in my everyday life. I don’t want to give it up because it is engraved in me. It is a piece of me, a part of my life. Now I am pregnant because I never took the emergency contraception after the rape. I do not know what to do right now, but abortion is not an option at all. I have gone through it before, and do not want to do it again. I do not hate children; I do not choose against a child because of who its father is. My father asks that I leave the farm. I really despise that idea. The farm, what farm is he referring to? In fact, it is not a farm, but the place where I grow things. It is the place that embraces my presence and sings me beautiful songs every day and also the place that I hold dear to my heart and will always cherish.
Analysis:
A lot of things happen on the farm that directly affect both Lucy and David. Lucy is the only person that David has been able to maintain a relationship with over the years. He looks upon her place and upon her companionship as a retreat from the things that have gone wrong in his life, for all the misdeeds that he has done. Lucy welcomes him warmly. During his stays he seems to impose his ideology on Lucy’s life and her ways of dealing with things. Despite the fact that Lucy is quite different from David in terms of personality and perceptions of life, they live together quite harmoniously for the time being.
And now that Lucy has been raped, a lot of things have changed; their relationship becomes distant as David tries to influence her further. Lucy says to David, “I have a life of my own, just as important to me as yours is to you, and in my life I am the one who makes the decision" (Coetzee 198). She wants to make decisions for herself and be in control of her life. She wants to keep the child and continues to stay on the plantation even when David says, “Particularly when he [Pollux] may be the father of the child you are carrying. Lucy, your situation is becoming ridiculous, worse than ridiculous, sinister. I plead with you, leave the farm before it is too late. It is the only sane thing left to do" (Coetzee 200). Lucy is upset that David refers the plantation as “the farm.” To Lucy, it is a piece of land where she grows things and she will not give it up. Her decision to keep the child is similar to her desire to keep the land.
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Nice choice. I agree this was an important part of the book to write about. This is where we find out what Lucy has been holding away from her farther David. Towards the end of the reading we do find out that she is pregnant. David is in shock when Lucy told him this because he thought his daughter took care of this situation, when really it was to late. Now she is pregnant and she is willing to keep the baby. You give a great explanation on why she is choosing to keep the baby and not have abortion because she has already had an abortion the first time and she does not want to go through it again.
ReplyDeleteOverall, you picked a great part to write about on what Lucy was thinking and what her choices were of keeping the baby and the land. At the end of analysis I liked how you compared the baby to the land because these are the two things that are most important to her and she is not going to give either one of them up.