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The first blind man’s wife
The boy with the squint is one of the novel’s protagonists; he gets struck with “white blindness” after visiting the doctor’s office at the same time as the first blind man. The little boy ends up quarantined in the hospital with the other protagonists, and he ultimately joins the group led by the doctor’s wife when they escape from the burned-down hospital into the city. After being separated from his family and locked in the mental hospital, the boy with the squint initially occupies himself by calling out for his mother and complaining of hunger. The girl with the dark glasses takes care of the boy, primarily by giving him part of her food rations, and she generally serves as a kind of surrogate mother figure to him. In general, the boy is quiet and passive, representing the deep psychological toll that the blindness epidemic inflicts.
The little boy with the squint Quotes in Blindness
The Blindness quotes below are all either spoken by The little boy with the squint or refer to The little boy with the squint. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14
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What's the world like these days, the old man with the black eyepatch had asked, and the doctor’s wife replied, There's no difference between inside and outside, between here and there, between the many and the few, between what we're living through and what we shall have to live through, And the people, how are they coping, asked the girl with dark glasses, They go around like ghosts, this must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it, Are there lots of cars out there, asked the first blind man, who was unable to forget that his had been stolen, It s like a cemetery. Neither the doctor nor the wife of the first blind man asked any questions, what was the point, when the replies were such as these.
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The little boy with the squint Quotes in Blindness
The Blindness quotes below are all either spoken by The little boy with the squint or refer to The little boy with the squint. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 14
Quotes
What's the world like these days, the old man with the black eyepatch had asked, and the doctor’s wife replied, There's no difference between inside and outside, between here and there, between the many and the few, between what we're living through and what we shall have to live through, And the people, how are they coping, asked the girl with dark glasses, They go around like ghosts, this must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it, Are there lots of cars out there, asked the first blind man, who was unable to forget that his had been stolen, It s like a cemetery. Neither the doctor nor the wife of the first blind man asked any questions, what was the point, when the replies were such as these.
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