![]() ![]() At the end of the session I was neither convinced nor satisfied because if one accepts his feelings towards July as being true love, the question arouses what the author intended by portraying such a strange relationship. I could not comprehend in opposition to the other participants how the feelings Goodwin displays towards July can be interpreted as true love since I always had in mind how cold-hearted he left her behind and even abducted the baby. But when we dealt with this topic in the seminar a discussion aroused about how the meaning of the relationship towards July should be evaluated in that context. After the first reading of The Long Song I thought the author uses the character of Robert Goodwin only to show how complex the issue of racism is and how even the ideology of abolitionism was undermined by segregation. ![]() The third novel we discussed named The Long Song by Andrea Levy was the most impressive to me and made me especially aware of the lack of knowledge I had about the alleged liberators of the slaves in the West Indies. ![]() After attending the seminar West Indian Slavery in fiction I realized how little I knew about that cruel episode of history. ![]()
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