ONCE UPON A TIME.

Nadime Gordimer:

She is one of several South African Nobel Laureates. She has gotten the prize of literature in 1991. It was because her stories described the conditions of race segregation in South Africa very well. Her books were often banned. But she continued to write and her first short story were published when she was fifteen and the last in 2007.

The plot in Once Upon a Time:

It is about a white family that have moved to South Africa and now lives in a nice house in a nice street. But they began to be afraid of robbers and burglars, so they bought a big wall and an electronic gate to keep them out. They had a son who was not old. He was a little boy. After a while they got more afraid and set up a barbed wire on top of the wall and inside the tunnel. One day the little boy wanted to play, and he played a knight that had to go through the thorns and he climbed into the tunnel. I will think that he died.

Why is apartheid one of the themes in the story:

Because the author is from South Africa and she wanted to write about apartheid and her childhood maybe.

Elements of fairytales:

It is three people in the story. The name of the story is once upon a time. It is mentioned that they live happily ever after very many times.

Why is this a reverse fairytale:

Because the ending is not a happy one and it is very much from the real life. Most of it is not fiction.

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Apartheid

Apartheid

Apartheid, by Torjus and Ole Magnus

Apartheid is a term used for the segregation in Africa that ended in 1991. It gave the white man rights while the black and colored where suppressed. Where you could live, how you were treated and what jobs you could have are just some examples of what was decided by skin color. Nelson Mandela among others worked hard for equal rights. It’s still aftereffects of Apartheid today, and there is still injustice in Africa.

Nadine Gordinger is a South African Nobel prize winner. She was awarded the prize for literature in 1991. She wrote about the injustice of the Apartheid system. Her books were often banned. Gordinger is one of the most important figures in the dissolution of Apartheid.

The story takes place in the suburbs. A family lives in a nice home, but on the streets right outside their house there is burglars and bad men. So the family builds higher and higher walls, and gets better and more security equipment. But they overdo it and it ends up with their child being killed by what was placed there to protect him.

They separate themselves from those who’s different from them.

It is not normal to have security equipment that kills. There is also some repetitions in the story like the sign YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

In Fairytales it use to start of bad, with the main persons suffering from hunger and poverty. And most fairytales have a nice ending. This is all opposite in this story. 

English – Maren, Frida & Vilde

Explain apartheid and give examples

- Apartheid is a law system in white segregates black South Africans from white South Africans.
The apartheid started in 1948 and ended in 1991. It covered all aspects of life: marriage, careers, justice, education and where one could live.

- Under the apartheid people were classified into one of three groups: white, black or colored.
-Black people could not vote in parliamentary elections, and until 1990 many public facilities and institutions were restricted to the use of one race only.

One upon a time

Present Nadine Gordimer:
Nadine Gordimer is born in 1923 and come
from South Africa. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991.
She likes to write about how apartheid in South Africa destroys
the lives to her countrymen and women and moral and racial issues.
The last few years she has been interested to write about hiv and
aids, and questions about that. Her interest for author came early
and her first short story was published in South Africa when she
was only 15 years old.




Plot:
A white man, a woman and their little boy lives happily ever after in an overly secured house, that will protect them against riots. Their lives go by and they buy more and more safety equipment, as they are afraid of what the unemployed loafers could do to them and their property. However they cannot secure themselves from the security system, which ends up killing the happy couple’s little boy.


Explain why apartheid is one of the themes in the story:
Apartheid is one of the themes in the story, because the suburb people segregate themselves from other people on the street with high defenses. Therefore they create a high wall between the two different groups of people, which are hard to tear down. They also use a walkie-talkie to make sure that the people they let in to their property are trustworthy and would not do any damage. Mainly they segregate themselves, which are the idea of apartheid.

Find elements of fairy tales:
- It start with “One upon a time.”
- It has many repetitions like “loved very much.”
They said it three times at the beginning.
“Happily ever after”
- Wise old witch. (Husband’s mother)
- The number three is used (loved dog, cat and boy)
- Short number of people
- Short story with few unnecessary details.
- The suburb people are rich, and the people outside the wall is poor.  

Why can we call this story a reverse fairytale?
- In the beginning everything is wonderful, however the story ends badly and sad.
- Evil wins over goods
- It is a very abrupt ending.  
- It is not any heroes and there are not any obstacles.  

                                 

Apartheid

Apartheid is an Afrikaans word that means separateness. It was a system of segregation that the National Party in South Africa made a law after it won the 1948 election. Under apartheid people were classified into one of three groups, white, black or coloured. The system oppressed the black and the coloured but favoured the withes. Apartheid covered all aspect of life, marriage, careers, justice, education and where one could live. The struggle to abolish a whole social system was long, and sometimes violent.

 

In South Africa, white, black and coloured were divided in groups. Coloured and black were discriminated.

In USA, black people were separated from others such as whites, because their skin colour.

 

 

Once Upon a Time

Nadine Gordimer born in 1923, is South African writer, activist and politician. She won the booker prize in 1974 and the Nobel prize for literature in 1991.

 

Once Upon a Time is novel or a short story about a happy family, a wife, men, little son, dog, and cat,  who are living in an affluent suburb of South Africa and who move emotionally from contentment to fear as their protect and isolated themselves from the black and poor people. Gradually they add more protection to their home as they fear grows. They install boomerangs back and injures.

 

Explain why apartheid is one of the themes in the story.

In this story, the author used apartheid as one of the theme of the story by showing how important the communication between people is in a society no matter their differences. The family that is illustrated in the story can be compared to the group of the white people during apartheid as they were living in a house under strict security control. This can therefore be compared to the situation of the three different groups of people during the terrible apartheid period. Black and whites were living in harsh conditions while white people were having luxurious lives. The author shows in a way that separating people because of their color is not the best and that it was going to lead nowhere other than violence or any other evil acts. This was illustrated at the end of the story as the family had a bad ending.

Find elements of fairy tales.

The story contains some elements of fairy tales such as the very beginning, ‘Once Upon a Time’, the use of witchcraft

Why can we call this story a reverse of a fairy tale?

It is because the story has not a happy ending as a fairy tale has always a happy ending.

 

Once Upon a Time - Marie and Øyfrid

English assignment

Apartheid

Apartheid means separateness and comes from the Afrikaans language. This was introduced in the South African society in 1948 when the National Party made a law of it after the election. The people were divided into three groups: white, black and coloured. The black and coloured people were suppressed by the white and, as an example; the non-whites couldn’t be at the same toilet as the whites.

 

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was born in 20 November 1923 in springs in Transvaal (a Union of South Africa). She is one of several South African Nobel Laureates.  And she was awarded the prize for literature in 1991. Although her books were often banned, she continued to write about the lives of her countrymen and women and how apartheid destroys them. Her first story was published in a South African magazine when she was 15, and her latest short story collection come out in 2007. Nadine Gordimer has lived all her life in South Africa.

 

 

The plot

The fairy-tale is about a small family living in the suburb. The family consists of two parents, their little boy, their trustworthy house maid, their cat and their dog. The parents built a fence around their house and home to protect their son. The fence was electric and had sharp edges and stuff. Even though the parents wanted to protect their son, he wanted to “play” with” the fence. Unfortunately, he died and was cut into pieces.

Why is apartheid a part of the story?

Because they tried to separate from the other people in the neighborhood because colored people were moving closer. They had an insane security system, so they could separate from rest of the world. But the security system chopped up a little boy.

Elements in the text

Nadine Gordimer uses fairy tale elements such as the simple language, conflict between good and evil, and the use of a moral to create her own fairy tale. She also relates her story to the story of Sleeping Beauty. Her fairy tale is a fairy tale in reverse which she uses to warn people that no good can come out of the apartheid ways of South Africa.

 

 

Why can we call this story a reverse fairy-tale?

We can call this story a reverse fairy-tale because it doesn’t have a happy ending. There are also many repetitions in the story, and they are kind of a threat and that’s not typical for a fairy-tale. Unlike a typical fairy-tale, the curve is just rising and rising. The end comes like “poof”, and the evil powers win. In fairy-tales, the good wins and you have a highlight in the story before it calms down a bit in the end.

 

 

Nadine Gordimer (born in Novermber 1923) is a South African, englishwriting writer, politcal active and a winner of the Nobelprize for literature for 1991.
She has been writing very much about apartheid.

Apartheid was a political and economic system based on people's skin tone. Between 1948 and 1994, the system power and economic opportunities to a small white minority in South Africa - and almost no rights to the country's black majority.

Sigurd, Markus & Kristian

Kjetil, Henrik og Tobias

Hey Therese, here its our "once upon a time" thing.

 

An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups. The condition of being separated from others; segregation.

About Nadime Gordimer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUK4VMppbLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncAl-qQgmmk


The Plot:
That a curse was set upon storybrook where all fairy tale charecters live. Snow white sent her only child a little girl named emma into the real world to one day break the evil queen's curse. Emma's son who was adopted by the evil queen whose name is regina, brought emma to storybrook and emma chooses to stay for the sake of henry her son. she meets her love ineterest grahm and begins working as a sherrif in the town. grahm eventually dies and emma begins to believe the stories that henry was telling her about the curse.

Apartheid is one of the themes because:
They are seperated from other people with a big fence with electricity.


Elements of fairytales:
the boy was cut into pieces.
His mother was a witch

Call it a fairytale:
because its overreacting in many things.

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