Book Club #5: C, TBC

Passages From The Text	Pg #	Comments & Questions
·         “-You are in a decent home, my child. ·         -Yes, mother, says the girl with downcast eyes. ·         -And you were brought here by a good and kindly man, so good that there is no word for it. ·         The girl looked up at her eagerly. I know it, she said. ·         -Then if you are content to be brought by him, you will not laugh so carelessly. ·         -Yes, mother. ·         -You are but a child, and laughter is good for a child. But there is one kind of laugh and there is another. ·         -You understand what I mean? ·         -I understand you completely.”	152	·         (R) Alan Paton, you’ve lost me. How can someone have a bad kind of laugh? What is this? Due to the things that happened earlier in the book. I’m assuming that Absoloms baby mama “used to be” a prostitute or something (I think that she is still one- I don’t think she’s pregnant with Absoloms child!) and that when Mrs. Lithebe was talking about her laughter, she meant that she could hear the promiscuity in her laugh. I’m not exactly sure though. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a ‘careless laugh’ being a bad thing.