Rivers of Blood

1. Innocent and scared. She was abused and feared she would have been attacked but
for the chain on her door.
2. Shes old, so we feel sympathy for her.
3. They gross us out.
4. Black people taking over, to fear them.
5. He thinks they are going to take over the culture.
6. Powells experience in India.
7. People in the UK.

Telephone Conversation
1. She is shouting.
2. He talks about different shades of black, and about the colour of his butt.
3. Somewhere at a telephone.
4. To show that he is desperate, it shifts from a somewhat comical poem to an
emotional one.

Text 1 (Rivers of Blood) Text 2 (Telephone

Conversation)

Who is included? White conservatives, Now Pro-segregation people,

only one white (a woman
old-age pensioner) lives
there. Which shows she is
included in this text.
ARE YOU LIGHT OR
VERY DARK? In this you
seethat the lady wants to
know if they are very black
or not.

Who is excluded? Pro-segregation people, Anti-segregationists, "Like

"Racial prejudice won't get brunette." "THAT'S DARK,
you anywhere in this ISN'T IT?" Which shows
country." This shows you dark people are seen as
should not be segragating. bad.

The immigrants, Immigrant

families have tried to rent
rooms in her house, but she
always refused. This shows
us that the immigrants are
not allowed to do much.