Turner Kela English 1C 18 January 2013 Dr. Williams L. James Country Lovers Every culture has their own judgment on love and how it’s suppose to go? Whoever said love came with a manual and rules to tell how to love or who to love? There are negative and positive outcomes‚ that comes along with it. Country Lovers shows the readers what love and intimacy meant to them and how it affected their lives because they broke the “rules” in both of their cultures. They live in an abnormal lifestyle
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Country lovers Country Lovers is a story of love between a black woman and the son of her white master. It was a story of a love that began out of childhood romance‚ and later‚ in adulthood‚ lead to flirting and sexual curiosity. Eventually‚ Thebedi‚ the black woman‚ got pregnant with his‚ Paulus‚ child without him knowing it. He left for college and when he came back‚ he found out that Thebedi was married to Njabulo. Njabulo had accepted the child as his own but Paulus overcome with fear upon
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Country Lovers The story portrays the apartheid system. Paulus: * He is a white upper-class Afrikaner. * Truly in love with Thebedi‚ his love for her is growing. The love is genuine. They have grown up together‚ therefore they have a strong. His love for the white girls is only of a physical love‚ it is superficial. Is Thebedi just entertainment? * He is not as emotional as Thebedi. Thebedi: * She is a farm worker. She is from the worker-class. * Strong love for Paulus
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SHORT STORY AND ITS ELEMENTS A short story is a kind of prose fiction which has grown up besides the novel and which has its own important and recognised place in literature. It may be defined as a prose narrative‚ “requiring from half an hour to one hour for its perusal.” In other words‚ brevity is the key-note of a short story. It is a story which it is physically possible to read at one sitting. But its must not be supposed that the short story is a novel on a reduced scale. It has a definite
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take reading past the title of “Country Lovers” to be instantly attracted to this short story. Just knowing it was a story of love and romance was enough of a draw to this literary piece. No matter how the story played out between these lovers‚ the feelings that would most certainly be evoked from such a powerful story raised curiosity to follow the tragic-turned-morbid love story of Paulus Eysendyck and Thebedi (Clugston‚ 2010‚ sec. 3.1.). Gordimer’s short romantic story plays to multiple aspects of
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Nadine Qordimer (b. 1923) South Africa 332 NADINE GORDIMER COUNTRY LOVERS The farm children play together when they are small; but once the white children go away to school they soon don’t play together any more‚ even in the holidays. Although most of the black children get some sort of schooling‚ they drop every year farther behind the grades passed by the white children; the childish vocabulary‚ the child’s exploration of the adventurous possibilities of dam‚ koppies‚ mealie lands and
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Gothic Elements in the Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is known as the Father of the Gothic. He utilized Gothicism in his short stories such as‚ ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘Ligeia.’ Poe has written numerous literary masterpieces that have focused on the Gothic. Not only have his works been focused on the Gothic‚ but his life had somewhat of a Gothic theme. Through love‚ death‚ and depression‚ Poe’s life had an impact on the way he wrote‚ which is evident through in
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Country Lovers The river is the place to be yourself‚ there are no rules. Thebedi and Paulus can be together at the river. At the river-bed there is nice plants‚ with stinkwood and Cape willow trees. In line 69 the text says that Thededi and Paulus not are afraid of each other. They are not afraid of each other while they are sitting at the river. The difference between the river and the farmhouse is that at the farmhouse they have to be “afraid” of each other. They cant show that they
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The Five Elements and Insight Elements are the structures that build a strong story. The five elements of a story are character‚ figure of speech‚ form‚ theme‚ and symbolism. Insight is ability to see clearly or intuitively in the elements of a story and the story itself. Both “The Tiger‚” by Erick Gentry‚ and “A Lesson in Discipline‚” by Teresa Foley‚ are short stories which contain these elements which each influence the insight that the reader develops. The insights I have gained insights I
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Short Story Elements by Caroline Wilmovsky Introduction and Thesis: A short story is a story with a fully developed theme‚ but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel. A short story is normally fiction‚ meaning‚ it’s made up. It focuses on one or two main characters and on a single conflict or problem. To comprehend a short story you have to look for four different elements: the setting‚ character‚ theme‚ and plot. The setting refers to the place‚ time‚ and date of a story. The literary
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