Summary
Setting/ Major Characters: A Train station: Station master, Young couple, People in homelands
Major Conflict/ How was resolved: Young couple trying to buy a lion from a merchant that was too expensive: Husband ends up persuading the merchant to lower the price of the lion.
Theme: Don't take what you have for granted.. The young woman wanted to help the merchant by paying full price but when price was lowered by her husband she probably felt bad because she knew his circumstances were worse.
How used as apartheid: It shows the division between the merchants and the people who weren't involved.
Analysis
How story is crafted: She uses lots of imagery. She thoroughly described how things like the lion looked. And she used dialogue so you can feel you are in that time period.
Explanation: With the dialogue she didn't use quotation marks so you really had to pay attention to the minor details. She described the tongue and mane on the lion
Explanation part 2: From the grey mud huts with the untidy heads that stood within a decorated mud wall, chickens, and dogs with their skin stretched like parchment (example of imagery)
How technique is used?: It helps to create the main idea by helping the reader to be able to actually see what is going on and putting them in the situation.
Reflection and Connections:
Current event: Homeless people are sometimes treated badly just based on their circumstances. They often look helpless just as she explained in the story.
In Greensboro: Homeless people sometimes beg for money. But sometimes they try and bargain with you. And people with food insecurity not many people talk about it or do much about it
Connect with readings: I can connect it with the story about Nadine Gordimer, and why she started writing. She helped others to see what really was going on in the homelands, she helped in a different way than physically helping
Personal: I feel that no one should ever experience a time period where they are discriminated against just because of their race. I feel we should all come together but in a world like today not everyone has the same beliefs as you but we can still put that aside and empower each other as humans.
Setting/ Major Characters: A Train station: Station master, Young couple, People in homelands
Major Conflict/ How was resolved: Young couple trying to buy a lion from a merchant that was too expensive: Husband ends up persuading the merchant to lower the price of the lion.
Theme: Don't take what you have for granted.. The young woman wanted to help the merchant by paying full price but when price was lowered by her husband she probably felt bad because she knew his circumstances were worse.
How used as apartheid: It shows the division between the merchants and the people who weren't involved.
Analysis
How story is crafted: She uses lots of imagery. She thoroughly described how things like the lion looked. And she used dialogue so you can feel you are in that time period.
Explanation: With the dialogue she didn't use quotation marks so you really had to pay attention to the minor details. She described the tongue and mane on the lion
Explanation part 2: From the grey mud huts with the untidy heads that stood within a decorated mud wall, chickens, and dogs with their skin stretched like parchment (example of imagery)
How technique is used?: It helps to create the main idea by helping the reader to be able to actually see what is going on and putting them in the situation.
Reflection and Connections:
Current event: Homeless people are sometimes treated badly just based on their circumstances. They often look helpless just as she explained in the story.
In Greensboro: Homeless people sometimes beg for money. But sometimes they try and bargain with you. And people with food insecurity not many people talk about it or do much about it
Connect with readings: I can connect it with the story about Nadine Gordimer, and why she started writing. She helped others to see what really was going on in the homelands, she helped in a different way than physically helping
Personal: I feel that no one should ever experience a time period where they are discriminated against just because of their race. I feel we should all come together but in a world like today not everyone has the same beliefs as you but we can still put that aside and empower each other as humans.