Incipit The Fifth Child

THE FIFTH CHILD DORIS LESSING The passage is about when dog which arrived in the family. One day, the dog does suddenly, and Harriet doesn’t know how he die. I- The evil in Ben - Harriet is puzzled hut has her suspicious. The life at home is destroyed. His behavior is strange: quirky laugh and an angry look -He’s really violent; he kills the dog and the cat. He’s like a wild animal in cage, he wait all day long like a predator -Ben is like a psychopath: watches, follows his victims. He wants

Extract 1 Introduction : In her novella, The Fifth Child, published in 1988, Doris Lessing tells the upheaval of a blissful family after the fifth child, a large, ugly, violent and uncontrollable child, is born. The passage under study is part of the incipit. Indeed, we are presented to the protagonists, the parents David & Harriet Lovatt when they first met at an office party in the 60s (their encounter, their backgrounds => past influencing their future). Guideline : To what extent their respective