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The Mark Chap 3
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THE MARK
CHAP 3
Key points
From chapter 1 & 2.
- Setting
- Characters
RECAP
- Plot
The introduction to the setting, protagonist and plot is called The Exposition (or simply Introduction) and is found in Act 1.
Chapter 3
DRUDGE SCHOOL
The Slum side of life..
Summary
The Mark
Tracking people
The mark allows each person to be tracked, and determines the course of their lives.
The mark at the base of everyone’s spine is a unique code imprinted on each child at birth by the Machine.
It even determines what job they will do and who they will be mated with at age 16.
The children have to repeat their lessons so often that the message is instilled into them, the message of their inferiority and subservient role.
Ettie hates the classes. She is filled with anger at being indoctrinated and forced to accept her trade. She wears a compliant mask but the comments she makes to herself show her powerless fury and rebelliousness.
She answers questions correctly about how to treat the Posh and their children,
while telling herself she will spit in the master’s soup, and pinch the child when no one is looking.
Career Training
Children are sent to schools specifically designed to instruct them for the career they have been assigned at birth.
School
Ettie has been assigned to be a drudge and will spend her life as a maid doing hard labour in the household of a Posh, or if she is very lucky, a Mangerian household.
Has been assigned to be a pleasure worker and is set to work in the Pleasure Clubs in Mangeria City.
KITTY
Birth
Mate
Birth Mate
With her birthing date coming soon, and the inevitability of her future as a drudge, Ettie is more determined than ever to get rid of her mark and escape.
Themes
Fate & Control
Movement
Reduced movement
Control
Slums have restricted access to Mangeria City, and can access it through an access control which is guarded by Locusts. There is also a curfew for the Slums to return to Slum City. Slums only have access to the Mangerian compound if they have been assigned to work in one of the Mangerian homes.
The Locusts have hand-held machines that can locate anyone through the numbers on their spines. This means that no citizen is truly free to move and do as they please.
An important feature is that the numbers show the trade the person will be assigned to at the age of fifteen. As such, there is no freedom of choice. Not in what you do, who you become or who you marry.
The numbers ensure that any citizen can be tracked.
Big Brother
You are forever controlled by what you have been assigned.
Machine Numbers
Questions
Questions
Lower rates of infection
Reduce blood pressure spikes
Why do you think the masses are assigned a partner from birth?
Lower blood pressure over time
Increase cardiovascular health
What does Ettie do as a form of escaping?
Does Kitty have an escape too?
Fewer sleep issues
What is an allusion?
Fewer psychological issues
Name examples of allusions in this chapter