Nadine Gordimer Use Of Allegory

The writers Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie both use allegory in their works. Nadine Gordimer wrote the short story, “Once Upon a Time”, which talks about segregation in South Africa. Salman Rushdie wrote the novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Both “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, use allegory to prove the danger of a governing body separating its citizens. In “Once Upon a Time”, Nadine Gordimer conveys that separating people by race causes people to fear, distrust, and be angry with each other. In the story, there is a white suburb, closed off from where the non-whites were living. Life in the white-only suburb was comfortable, but life in the non-white area was