2.

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens consists of many parts, we will discuss

one chapter directly-SUN AND SHADOW. + main topics
3.characters
4. The story begins with a description of the environment - Marseille, its
nature and environmental conditions. This chapter is based on two main
characters who are in prison. Both characters are different from each other. At
the beginning, we get to know Rigo, who is distinguished by his leadership
qualities, and the second prisoner, John Baptist, is a different character from Rigo,
who performs his tasks. Also, we meet a secondary character, the prison guard,
who appears in the play with his daughter. The work is distinguished by the fact
that the action begins in the prison. It is also strange that the character who
wants to lead talks more about himself, while the other prisoner is presented as a
listener.

5. Everything was hot and humid in Marseilles. The sun was shining strictly,
and it was causing people to be disturbed. Everything around was hot. The stones
did not cold for weeks. The water was hot. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards,
Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks,
Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles,
sought the shade alike—taking refuge in any hiding-place.

6. The Baptist is a submissive character who lies down. A sunburnt, quick,

lithe, little man, though rather thickset. Earrings in his brown ears, white teeth
lighting up his grotesque brown face, intensely black hair clustering about his
brown throat, a ragged red shirt open at his brown breast. Loose, seaman-like
trousers, decent shoes, a long red cap, a red sash round his waist, and a knife in it.

7
Rigo is a dominant and proud character. An example of which we meet
many times while reading the work. for example-I am proud. I say nothing in
defence of pride, but I am proud. It is also my character to govern. I can’t submit;
I must govern.
Rigo is also rude and impertinent when he addresses the Baptist with the
words- ‘Get up, pig!’ growled the first. ‘Don’t sleep when I am hungry.’
. He had a hook nose, handsome after its kind, but too high between the
eyes by probably just as much as his eyes were too near to one another. For the
rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache
showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy
state, but shot with red.
 8. The text contains a description of the environment, dialogues and
narration..
9. Several themes: relationship between John Baptist and Monsieur
Rigaud, description of environment, life and past moments of Riguad…
Images: Sun- the title of chapter is sun and shaow and in the story sun has
enormous influence, and it causes negative emotions from people and
particularly in prisons.
The idea:Author’s attude on Relations between people of different
nationalities

10. the vocabulary of text is interesting because there are many foreign
words- Italian words, such as-Civita Vecchia, Leghorn, Porto Fino, Genoa, Cornice,
ALTRO! Civita Vecchia

11.
Epithets-a sky of purple, wild beast, hook nose, thin lips, dry hair, thick
moustache, Lucky bird! , impatient ape. Blazing sun
Metaphor- looking up at his fellow-prisoner with a lively look for a prison.
Metaphor/epithet-An evil star occasioned Madame Rigaud to advert to her
relations; The door clashed—the key turned—and a ray of unusual light, and a
breath of unusual air, seemed to have passed through the jail, vanishing in a tiny
wreath of smoke from the cigar.

12. Metaphor/repetition- A prison taint was on everything there. The

imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men,
were all deteriorated by confinement.
Enumeration/repetitions-Strangers were stared out of countenance by
staring white houses, staring white walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of
arid road,
Enumeration(homogenous)- Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards,
Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks,
Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles,

13. Anaphora-Again—this veal in savoury jelly is for Monsieur Rigaud. Again

—these three white little loaves are for Monsieur Rigaud. Again, this cheese—
again, this wine—again, this tobacco—all for Monsieur Rigaud. Lucky bird!’
Similie- it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed.
hey were sharp rather than bright
Similie-As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty,
the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim.

14. Ordinary comparison-I can cut my bread so—like a melon.

 Hyperbole/epithet-fiery river,
Hyperbole-A thousand thanks, my master!’
Detached const-His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came
down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner.