Nadine Gordimer

The Construction and Meaning of “Home” in Nadine Gordimer’s Tale of Postcolonial Africa, “The Ultimate Safari” Nadine Gordimer’s “The Ultimate Safari” takes the reader on a journey as the main character, a little girl, flees from Mozambique with her brothers and grandparents. Throughout the short story, the girl describes her trek out of Mozambique and through Kruger Park into South Africa, and details the hunger, loss, and overall feeling of deprivation that came with the unavoidable…

While reading the short story “Once Upon A Time” by Nadine Gordimer, the reader was able to connect the life lessons that he or she might have learned from the experiences in the text. An important lesson the reader would find is the human fear represents the greatest obstacle to happiness. The mother’s fear in the story was interfering with her happiness and wants her and the family to be isolated from the situation that is going on the outside world. The text says the mother “was afraid that…

Nadine Gordimer is a renowned female writer who was born in Transvaal, South Africa in 1923 and received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. Throughout Gordimer’s writing career, she repeatedly insinuated the political issues of Apartheid and racism in South Africa and demonstrated to her readers that social inequality can eventually lead to destruction ("Nadine Gordimer”). During the late 1900s, the policy of Apartheid in South Africa segregated nonwhite majorities from the white minorities and…

Melanie Dorfman Ms.Kryzanowski GP Block 2 28 September 2015 PBPA Community building is when a community or ‘association’ comes together as one and constructs a better environment where all things benefit. In the passages “Once Upon a Time”by Nadine Gordimer and “Rituals of Memory” by Kimberly M. Blaesser they show the differences and similarities in community building. Both share the experience of different groups developing communities and the interaction. The differences between the two…

common ground’. With the stories Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer, The Vietnam Wall by Alberto Rios, and Rituals of Memories by Kimberly M. Blaeser, they all shared a common theme. In a more detailed sense, the overall theme of these three texts was that people must learn to coexist with one another, to live as one. With the aid of symbolism and imagery, each author conveyed their theme with the rhetoric differently in how they were…

McGuire Conley Ms. Allen Honors English, Period 6 October 9th, 2015 Fear Fear can transform a situation that can be easily handled, into a situation that will end in chaos. Fear can paralyze a person's reasoning. It can cause them to do things they would never think they could possibly do. It filters their view of the world, so that they can only see the negatives, and if they stay afraid they will become accustomed to…

In the short stories, “The Barrio” by Robert Ramirez and “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, there are two different environments or neighborhoods. In the “The Barrio”, the neighborhood is a more unified, friendly place. While “Once Upon a Time” describes a neighborhood where the people are more reserved, and tense. Both articles have an image of time, different attitudes in characters, and word choice that implies the positions of the people. Although both places have problems the reactions…

The title of the story is ironic, due to the fact that there is no “Happily Ever After” at the end of the story, which is what readers would assume based off most stories that begin with the phrase “Once Upon a Time”. Gordimer has a misleading falling action by using language of a fairy tale from a book the little boy received from Christmas. It states, “He pretended to be the Prince who braves the terrible thicket of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Sleeping Beauty…

Country”, “Once Upon A time”, and “The Gettysburg Address”, Anna Quindlen, Nadine Gordimer, and Abraham Lincoln respectively convey the individual’s role in society through the use of rhetoric techniques. The authors use different types of rhetoric techniques, to convey their ideas, whether it’s through an analogy, or an ironic ending. However, the authors come to an agreement on what the individual’s role is. Quindlen, Gordimer and Lincoln believe that a society is stronger when the individuals…

The importance of silence in Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story hinges on the assumption that the spread of information is simultaneously valuable and dangerous. Each of these authors frame their stories around political upheaval where violence and oppression are constantly just beneath the surface. The apartheid-era South African activists of My Son’s Story, like Sonny and his wife Aila, use information to find support in a movement that opposes…