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Crowd
• It suggests • 1) the lack of order • 2) people are not terribly
concerned about the funeral. •
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all men and boys, no women
• According to Muslim law, Muslims must respect women, and for this reason girls and women used to be kept in the house, where they could be safe. When they went out, they wore the veils to cover their faces. But this law has become a kind of excuse to discriminate against women.
The use of words like “hack, dump, fling, no gravestone, no name, no identifying mark, …” indicates the unceremonious way in which a funeral is carried out. In a poor country like Morocco, life is cheap.
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Para. 2
The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.