Apartheid Apartheid is the stage and time of unfair judgement and racism in South Africa. I wanted to analyze both sides of the story through an unbiased lens or way of thinking, but I also wanted to get an idea of how each side felt. This time era was violent and full of racism. However try to put yourself in the shoes of the natives of Africa and imagine someone invading your home and completely taking over your life. Then, that person has the audacity to look at you like you did not belong there, in your home, the place they took over. How would you react?
To look at Apartheid through an unbiased and clear perspective would be the best way to analyze the whole time era. The point being, I know there was luxury for the Europeans, …show more content…
In an interview with the Academy of Achievement with Nadine Gordimer, she confirmed she that. Due to the harsh reality of her books, some of them were banned from libraries. She accepted that, but kept writing the same way because she believed that people deserved to know how it really was in post-Apartheid. Gordimer takes an unexpected turn in the story with multiple concepts. In the fiction novel The House Gun, she writes about a white couple undergoing the shock of the news of Duncan 's, their son, committing murder in post-Apartheid South Africa. In this novel the author turns the tables on the reader’s assumption that, Duncan would be defended by a white man and all would be well. However, his attorney is a black man and, as said in summary of this book, “The defense of their son’s life was in the hands of a black man.” Throughout the middle of the book you see that Claudia and her husband (Duncan’s Parents) start to question the Hamilton Notsamai’s (Duncan’s lawyer) ability to go above and beyond to defend their son because of his race. For example, in the book Gordimer …show more content…
The only glimpse we get is when the Lingard Parents are watching television in their home right before they get the devastating news of their son. You can tell by this the white couple was very reserved, and didn’t not have much part of society except for the fact that Mrs. Lingard was a doctor and Mr. Lingard had some part in law. When Nadine Gordimer wrote this book, she should have told more about how the murder of Duncan’s ex-lover came to be through the influence of his environment. Gordimer claims this is not a mystery investigation book, but the book had main points hidden throughout the book, with was confusing to me as the reader. For example, she starts off very bluntly with the phrase, “Something terrible has happened”. The author also does not use quotations which, eventually, I get lost with who is talking. Moreover, Gordimer should have incorporated the socialist state of the main character’s
To look at Apartheid through an unbiased and clear perspective would be the best way to analyze the whole time era. The point being, I know there was luxury for the Europeans, …show more content…
In an interview with the Academy of Achievement with Nadine Gordimer, she confirmed she that. Due to the harsh reality of her books, some of them were banned from libraries. She accepted that, but kept writing the same way because she believed that people deserved to know how it really was in post-Apartheid. Gordimer takes an unexpected turn in the story with multiple concepts. In the fiction novel The House Gun, she writes about a white couple undergoing the shock of the news of Duncan 's, their son, committing murder in post-Apartheid South Africa. In this novel the author turns the tables on the reader’s assumption that, Duncan would be defended by a white man and all would be well. However, his attorney is a black man and, as said in summary of this book, “The defense of their son’s life was in the hands of a black man.” Throughout the middle of the book you see that Claudia and her husband (Duncan’s Parents) start to question the Hamilton Notsamai’s (Duncan’s lawyer) ability to go above and beyond to defend their son because of his race. For example, in the book Gordimer …show more content…
The only glimpse we get is when the Lingard Parents are watching television in their home right before they get the devastating news of their son. You can tell by this the white couple was very reserved, and didn’t not have much part of society except for the fact that Mrs. Lingard was a doctor and Mr. Lingard had some part in law. When Nadine Gordimer wrote this book, she should have told more about how the murder of Duncan’s ex-lover came to be through the influence of his environment. Gordimer claims this is not a mystery investigation book, but the book had main points hidden throughout the book, with was confusing to me as the reader. For example, she starts off very bluntly with the phrase, “Something terrible has happened”. The author also does not use quotations which, eventually, I get lost with who is talking. Moreover, Gordimer should have incorporated the socialist state of the main character’s