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Taken from the name of a kind of brown rat, a wharf-rat is someone who loiters around ship-loading docks with the intent of stealing from ships, containers, or warehouses. Mother’s insistence that the girl never speak to wharf-rat boys is due to their criminal activity and low social status.
Wharf-rat Boys Quotes in Girl
The Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Wharf-rat Boys or refer to Wharf-rat Boys. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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You mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions.
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Mother forbids the girl to do this after telling her, explicitly, “don’t sing benna in Sunday school.” With the commands “don’t” and “mustn’t,” she strictly imposes restrictions on the girl’s voice. Just as calypso music and holy days do not mix, neither should a presumably middle-class girl and poor boys who hang around a wharf. Wharf-rat boys are suspected criminals, loafing around ports waiting for items to steal. Their association with rodents makes them sound loathsome, like creatures to be avoided if they cannot be exterminated. If the girl speaks to them, she would be acknowledging them as worthy of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut
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