[ SECRET POST #3336 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3336 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the point of the racism is to show what a snobby, entitled, rude, upper class, moody, unloved, miserable child Mary is (see Mary's reaction to Martha admitting she hoped Mary was a 'native' as she'd never seen one before), and was raised to be (see her getting dressed at the start of the 90s movie and her saying she never dressed herself, her aiya did it all, because her parents were too busy going out to parties) and so help show how much she changes over the course of the book. And see how later in the book she tells Colin stories from India, and the boy with whole universe inside him etc.

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid I never blamed any of the Indians for their actions (abandoning Mary, etc) cause I figured it was all Mary's fault for being such an asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

Well there's that, and the whole 'cholera in the house and killing everyone' thing too, but I'm totes sure the Indian servants weren't running from that at all, just the asshole child. 😜

[(Anonymous)]

As a clarification, the book doesn't blame the Indian servants, either. It's very clear that between Mary's nurse dying of cholera (along with Mary's parents), the household was in a panic and nobody was thinking straight. Even the British officers who found Mary had assumed she was dead, along with her family, and were surprised to find out that she wasn't. It was horrible, but nobody's fault.