[ SECRET POST #6178 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #6178 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



__________________________________________________



02.



__________________________________________________



03.



__________________________________________________



04.



__________________________________________________



05.



__________________________________________________



06.




























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #883.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[meadowphoenix]

the whole thing is a commentary on justice in general, so each of the characters is a trope of an English profession or personality that has been given trust that they don't deserve. There's an implication that it is the value English society places on them that allows them to get away with murder.

spoilers, if you don't already know:
specifically one character is commentary on england's foreign presence: one of them is a soldier who stole food from West Africans and left them to die. When he tells the others about what he did, he repeats the "africans don't feel like europeans" trope.

eta: also...there's the original title. there's a deliberate irony imo that these classic paragons of british behavior are called a slur for black people as they die. she probably still shouldn't have called it that, but i think it does make it pretty clear the book is commentary on british society

[(Anonymous)]

the whole thing is a commentary on justice in general, so each of the characters is a trope of an English profession or personality that has been given trust that they don't deserve. There's an implication that it is the value English society places on them that allows them to get away with murder.

I read the book as a teenager, and this aspect of it went completely over my head. I still enjoyed it at the time, but now I'm thinking I should really reread it with this in mind.

[meadowphoenix]

I hope you still enjoy it if you do!