This short story was about a young girl who has an encounter with Chief Mshlanga. His son worked for the young girls parents. At this time, Africans were treated differently: “It was even impossible to think of the black people who worked about the house as friends, for if she talked to one of them, her mother would come running anxiously: come away; you mustn’t talk to the natives” (Lessing 472). White children were taught to defend themselves by mocking and humiliating black children (Mauder). Within this short story, the theme of African landscape was portrayed again. The major theme in this short story is beauty of the land. Again, this theme was very important to Doris Lessing because she grew up with the African landscape. As the young girl learns more about Chief Mshlanga and his people, she realized that the land her own people now own was once Chief Mshlanga’s and his people’s
This short story was about a young girl who has an encounter with Chief Mshlanga. His son worked for the young girls parents. At this time, Africans were treated differently: “It was even impossible to think of the black people who worked about the house as friends, for if she talked to one of them, her mother would come running anxiously: come away; you mustn’t talk to the natives” (Lessing 472). White children were taught to defend themselves by mocking and humiliating black children (Mauder). Within this short story, the theme of African landscape was portrayed again. The major theme in this short story is beauty of the land. Again, this theme was very important to Doris Lessing because she grew up with the African landscape. As the young girl learns more about Chief Mshlanga and his people, she realized that the land her own people now own was once Chief Mshlanga’s and his people’s