Guns Germs And Steel Essential Questions

Essential Question: How was the character(s) affected by the oppression of apartheid?

In Chapter The Gun, of Out of Bounds, the main character Esi is affected by the oppression of apartheid. One good example is “...the the white authorities had declared Mapoteng part of a “homeland” to which black people had been sent in their thousand when their homes were not wanted close to the towns and cities of whites”(100). This means that Esi and his family lived in homelands. Blacks were forced by whites to live in homelands because white people were in command and blacks and white people could not live together because of the discrimination at that time. The blacks were separated from the whites because, for the whites, blacks were always less because their skin color and difference of social class. Homelands were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was forced to moved to prevent them from living in the urban areas of South Africa. Esi and his family they were moved to that area because they were black and living there affected their economic situation and were forced to work for the whites because there were no other jobs. They had to endure the abuse of the whites to survive.
Police had also visited the farm to tell them about the “terrorist” and how they must report anything unusual”(104). In other words Esi’s fathers knew everything that was going to happen about terrorism in Mapoteng a region North-West in South Africa. The blacks were terrified by the whites because of the mistreatment of the white people towards the blacks. Therefore the white people frightened the blacks for their ability to feel more than them for having good work and good economy, they believed that they could go do whatever they want with