SOME ARE BORN TO SWEET DELIGHT

INTRO

• Innocent naive Vera
• journey to "meet his parents"
• foreshadowing provides loosely veiled hints
• conveys the weak and naive being preyed upon

LEAD IN

• Vera doesn't see and Rad doesn't show
• Wendigo
• Evil consuming innocent
• Iceberg shows beauty hides danger

WARNING SIGNS

• Can't read still can tell
• " Very quietly, slowly, he put his hand on hers, taking charge of the wrist like a doctor" (71)
• Clinical/uncaring/face level

WARNING SIGNS

• "he dressed her with the comforting resignation to her emotion a mother shows with an over-excited child"(79)
• Condescending, beginning of all not well
• Opposite ends of emotional spectrum

WARNING SIGNS

• "She would not say to them "I love him", she would not let them spoil that by trying to make her feel ashamed"(83)
• She knows inside
• Can't trust parents
• Too much faith in Rad
• Short relationship

HIDDEN TRUTH

• "He gestured with his foot towards the papers in his secret language ... another secret"(74)
• Hides himself
• Doesn't even know him
• Stoic

HIDDEN TRUTH

• "Just call me Rad"(72)
• Alienates him
• Subtle hint-radical
• Alias
• Uses foreigner status as a shield

HIDDEN TRUTH

• "The bride must meet the parents. They must know her as I know her"(84)
• Excited vs blank
• Only she leaves
• Hiding behind foreigner status

BLINDED

• Racism=lens
• Should see but self-blinded
• "Rad could not wave"(87)
• Enamored vs aloof

BLINDED

• "while his teeth broke into its crumbling softness"(75)
• Symbolism
• Blinded by love
• Eating her alive

BLINDED

• "do you like beans?"(76)
• Imagination blinds reality
• She's light vs his dark
• She doesn't know him

BLINDED

• "Because I have chosen you"(82)
• Detached, creepy
• Foreigner shield
• Unloving

CONCLUSION

• Evil doesn't hide perfectly, justifications are made
• Evil gluttony and lurking below
• Lamb blinded by kind hand misses sharp knife