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.