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    Country Lovers Vs The Welcome Table There was a time where racism and discrimination was a huge issue. Back in those days‚ African Americans were treated unequal. There was no harmony between people unless they had the same skin color. Racism and discrimination still exists‚ but it is illegal to discriminate against anyone‚ including their race. In this paper‚ I will compare and contrast the theme of the short stories “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” written

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    Country Lover’s: Nadine Gordimer April Simon Journey into Literature: ENG 125 Professor Louise Becker 4-23-2012 The literary writing that caught my attention is Country Lover’s by Nadine Gordimer. This short story attracted my attention because I have read about her before and I like the way she draws you into her story with her plot and meanings. Her stories are so realistic and the ending leaves you wanting more. I will be using the formalist

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    Alice Walker who wrote “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that was the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story‚ the point of view and has symbolism used to show the death of the old woman and what the church members thought of her as a black woman. (Clugston‚ 2010‚ Section 7.1 and 7.2) Later in the story‚ she is walking

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    Running head: COUNTRY LOVERS Country Lovers Tanya Looney Country Lovers The story “Country Lovers” captured my interest in this week’s reading assignment. Nadine Gordimer the author was born and raised in South Africa‚ an activist who dealt with racial inequality‚ especially the Apartheid in South Africa. In the 1991 Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for her literature. Country Lovers is a short story about a forbidden love that occurred in South Africa. The poor female character

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    The Welcome Table vs. Country Lovers When it comes to writing there are many different types of writing styles. Two different types of literature are short stories and poems. These two types have many different similarities and differences. It is also how you understand the literature. Some similarities are how they can have the same theme or possibly the same point of view. The differences are how the author uses emotions‚ the length of the literature. I believe that poems use

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    Literature ENG 125 Melissa Eidson May 22‚ 2013 Theme of Racism This paper is intended to in fact compare and contrast two literary works in the form of short stories. It will give a description of the similarities and differences in content and style. In observances of both stories central theme of racism which both result in death‚ look at how the characters were faced and affected by racism‚ poverty‚ and love. This paper will also briefly summarize the stories and depict the feelings of the

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    Analysis of “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker Pamela Crawford Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Andrea Pfaff September 24‚ 2012 Alice Walker who wrote “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that was the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story‚ the point of view and has symbolism used to show the death

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    her. The beginning of the story is told from the white people ’s perspectives as they see an old black woman come to their church and go inside. Inside the church‚ the point of view switches to the usher who tells the old black lady to leave. The point of view then switches back to the white women inside the church‚ who take it as a personal insult and feel the most threatened about the old black lady being at their church. They rouse their husbands to throw the old lady out. The perspective then

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    literary works‚ “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker‚ the theme being race / ethnicity. I want to explore the differences in how each of the black women portrayed their selves and how the narrator made me feel when reading each of the stories. Both stories are told in the third-person omniscient point of view‚ you can tell because the narrator lets you know how all of the characters feel in the story. For example‚ in “The Welcome Table”: The old woman stood

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    Nadine Gordimer’s short story “Town and Country Lovers” (1980) follows the developing relationship between an Austrian geologist‚ Dr. Franz-Josef von Leinsdorf‚ and a young “coloured” (mixed-race) cashier who remains nameless throughout the story. Dr. von Leinsdorf and the young girl begin an affair that ends abruptly when the relationship is discovered by police (interracial sexual relationships were illegal during apartheid). Apathy and Prejudice From the opening paragraphs of “Town and Country

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