Race and ethnicity
Bonnie Fuller
Ashford University
ENG125: Introduction to Literature (GSH1221I)
Instructor: Trillium Sara Hinton
Race and ethnicity 2
The theme is the central point of a story that tells what the story is about. I will compare and contrast two works of Nadine Gordminer and Aurora Morales. This is in the category of race and ethnicity.
Country Lovers that was written in 1975 is a story of a love that was prohibited between a black woman—Thebedi and Paulus, the son of her white masters. It was a story of a love that rose out of childhood love affair that blossomed to adulthood until the harmless flirtation lead to sexual interest. In the course of time, Thebedi got pregnant with his child without him knowing it.
WhenPaulus left for college and went to go back; he found out that Thebedi was already married to Njabulo. Njabulo accepted the child as his own child but Paulus overwhellemed with fear when he discovered the child he took matters to his own hand. The next day, the child mysteriously died (as cited in Clugston, 2010, pp. 44-50).
Country Lovers is a very engaging story because of the seriousness and the scandalous nature of the topic. Because of the intensity and sense of racial prejudice during the early 1900s, a prohibited romance—a mix of races romance is considered social taboo that is not allowed. To even think about writing a literature that centre on this topic is truly fascinating and attention-grabbing to
References: Clugston, 2010