BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help


Blindness Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by José Saramago
About 82 pages (24,726 words)
Blindness (novel) Summary

Bookmark and Share Know this work well? Help others and get FREE products!

Chapter 12 Summary

A few days pass and the thugs send out a small party to the next ward in the rotation, demanding women. They stop by the doctor's wife's ward on the way and hurl insults and denigrating remarks about the women's sexual performance. When they learn that one of the women died from the prolonged sexual assault, they seem amused and note that the remaining women will simply have to work harder on their next rotation.

When the men recover the women from the next ward, they are pleased to discover there are fifteen women. As they drive the women down the hall, the doctor's wife takes the scissors from the wall and silently accompanies the women. At the thugs' ward, the previous scene of rape and debauchery is quickly repeated. The doctor's wife enters.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 844 words. This study guide contains 24,726 words (approx. 82 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our Blindness Access Pass.

Ask any question on Blindness (novel) and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Copyrights
Blindness from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags




About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy