Once Upon A Time Nadine Gortimer

During the mid 1900's South Africa was under apartheid rule which allowed the government to discriminate against black people. During this time, the government was also very strict in enforcing rules against criticizing the government itself. Nadine Gortimer is a white South African women who, during the 1980's was not in favor of the government's discrimination against black South Africans. In response towards this, she writes a short story titled "Once upon a Time" to serve as her own way of criticizing the rules. In this story Gortimer illustrates a word in which two different groups of people are separated and have strong discomforts about one another. The three main characters that Gortimer describes are meant to be a representation
Due to rising tensions and poverty, riots, robbery, and homicide in the neighborhood has increased dramatically. With this rise of violence, the wife's paranoia is also on the rise, leading towards her husband to increase their home security. The husband would start by installing a home security system to alert them of any intruders posing a threat to the safety of the family. However the system would routinely fail due to the fact the that family owned a cat that would make the sensitive alarm go off daily causing more pain than relief for the wife. The husband would then be forced to add bars to all the windows in their home and build a wall having it go even higher. Still the wife lived in fear of the outsiders coming in and destroying her life, so the husband did everything in his power to protect his family and had workers install barbed wire and sharp steel metal around their wall and home. One day the boy is playing as a prince and wants to go past the "thicket of thorns" to kiss Sleeping Beauty and bring her back to life. The boy picks up a ladder and climbs up the wall and ends up getting stuck in the wires and sharp edges causing him to bleed to death in the wall that was suppose to protect the