Change is to make something different and it is society’s purpose to make change. One of Mahatma Gandhi’s most popular quote is, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world,” and this quote connects to two of stories. The first story is, “The Quarry,” by Alan Patton, and it is about a young boy, Johnny Day, who climbs a quarry and people of all races come together to help this young boy. Alan Patton uses this piece to inspire people to change. The second story is, “Like the Sun,” by R. K. Narayan it talks about a man Sekhar who wants to change his life by telling the truth for the whole day. These two stories and the quote either makes us want to change something for society or show us how change isn’t always easy and may need sacrifices.
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Alan Patton writes this story to bring people to action to fight against the Apartheid. When Johnny Day, a white boy, first started to climb the quarry an Indian Man tried to help him down and stop him from climbing higher on the quarry. This is unusual for people of different races to interact with each other during this period due to the Apartheid. Alan is trying to show how race doesn’t matter and make people think about how the Apartheid is not right and they should bring change to South Africa. When Johnny Day gets to the point of no return, Thomas Ndhlovu, a black male, climbs the quarry to help save him. Thomas doesn’t care about the boy’s race and the boy doesn’t care about Thomas’ race. In times of need people don’t care about race and a person race is unnoticed. This quote also shows how Patton brings us to action for change by showing the coming together of races. During one of the final scenes of the story after Thomas save Johnny, Johnny insist on shaking Thomas’ hand. Due to their different races Thomas and Johnny would have never interacted, but due to the situation they don’t care about race. Patton wrote this story to see how their normal way should change, and with it the Apartheid should be demolished. Gandhi says that it …show more content…
In R. K. Narayan’s, “Like the Sun,” Narayan shows how a man, named Sekhar tries to change his life by setting out to tell the truth the whole day. Change isn’t always easy, sometimes change can be a struggle. Sekhar wanted to be more honest so he told the truth the whole day. It was hard for Sekhar to tell the truth and his want for change was a struggle. His first challenge was when he had to tell his wife that his cooking was horrible. He told his wife the truth about her cooking and how bad it was. It was hard for him to tell that to a person he loves. This shows that change can sometimes be hard and will take sacrifices. Another point in the story where Sekhar had to struggle with his change to tell the truth was when he was talking to another teacher about a guy that died. His colleagues talked about how he was a good man and Sekhar cut them off and said that he wasn’t a good man. This quote also demonstrates how change can be hard because it hard to talk about a person that just died in a bad way and disrespect the person that just died. The final part of the story that shows Sekhar struggle with change was when he told his boss about his singing skills. Later in the day after Sekhar told the truth about how bad his boss’ singing skills are, his boss called him and thanked him for telling him not to waste his money on singing lessons, but his boss also tells him that he needs to grade all 100 papers by
Alan Patton writes this story to bring people to action to fight against the Apartheid. When Johnny Day, a white boy, first started to climb the quarry an Indian Man tried to help him down and stop him from climbing higher on the quarry. This is unusual for people of different races to interact with each other during this period due to the Apartheid. Alan is trying to show how race doesn’t matter and make people think about how the Apartheid is not right and they should bring change to South Africa. When Johnny Day gets to the point of no return, Thomas Ndhlovu, a black male, climbs the quarry to help save him. Thomas doesn’t care about the boy’s race and the boy doesn’t care about Thomas’ race. In times of need people don’t care about race and a person race is unnoticed. This quote also shows how Patton brings us to action for change by showing the coming together of races. During one of the final scenes of the story after Thomas save Johnny, Johnny insist on shaking Thomas’ hand. Due to their different races Thomas and Johnny would have never interacted, but due to the situation they don’t care about race. Patton wrote this story to see how their normal way should change, and with it the Apartheid should be demolished. Gandhi says that it …show more content…
In R. K. Narayan’s, “Like the Sun,” Narayan shows how a man, named Sekhar tries to change his life by setting out to tell the truth the whole day. Change isn’t always easy, sometimes change can be a struggle. Sekhar wanted to be more honest so he told the truth the whole day. It was hard for Sekhar to tell the truth and his want for change was a struggle. His first challenge was when he had to tell his wife that his cooking was horrible. He told his wife the truth about her cooking and how bad it was. It was hard for him to tell that to a person he loves. This shows that change can sometimes be hard and will take sacrifices. Another point in the story where Sekhar had to struggle with his change to tell the truth was when he was talking to another teacher about a guy that died. His colleagues talked about how he was a good man and Sekhar cut them off and said that he wasn’t a good man. This quote also demonstrates how change can be hard because it hard to talk about a person that just died in a bad way and disrespect the person that just died. The final part of the story that shows Sekhar struggle with change was when he told his boss about his singing skills. Later in the day after Sekhar told the truth about how bad his boss’ singing skills are, his boss called him and thanked him for telling him not to waste his money on singing lessons, but his boss also tells him that he needs to grade all 100 papers by