This story has a great meaning. The main message is that the walls of prejudice we build, and the limits we put within our minds, due to the fear of threat to ourselves, causes us to get isolated from the outside world, and from human relationships.
The theme of the story is 'an unjust social system creates an environment of fear that can destroy both the opressor and the opressed".
1. Electronically controlled gates 2. Burglar bars attached to the doors and windows of the house, and an alarm system installed 3. The wall was made higher 4. Razor-bladed coils were placed on top of the walls of the house
The duration of Once Upon a Time in Shanghai is 2700.0 seconds.
The duration of Once Upon a Time... Man is 1560.0 seconds.
Once Upon a Time... Man was created in 1978.
Odessa and her family are experiencing a hard time during segregation
gay
the author of the work, presumably Gordimer
1974.
The family of three, consisting of the man, his wife, and the little boy.
The theme of the story is 'an unjust social system creates an environment of fear that can destroy both the opressor and the opressed".
In "Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer, the parents take various precautions to ensure their family's safety. They install a security gate, barbed wire, alarms, and even a watchdog. Despite these efforts, their ultimate fears about safety come from within as they become consumed by paranoia and end up inadvertently causing harm to themselves.
the house, it's like castle. Just like people try to feel safer/happier bying more things, but it just backfires and never brings true security.
The tone of "Country Lovers" by Nadine Gordimer is one of somber reflection and critique, as it deals with the complex issues of racism and forbidden love in South Africa during apartheid. Gordimer's writing style is restrained and introspective, inviting readers to contemplate the injustices and inequalities present in society at that time.
The wall symbolizes the walls of predjudice we build, and the limits we have within our minds thanks to the restrictions of our fears. Also, it mentions the cat leaving marks of its 'comings and goings' on the wall, which can symbolize the marks 'coloured' people leave on white society. There's probably more, but that's all I've got so far.
THE MOSt IMPORTANT ELEMENT IS ITS THEME.THE ENTIRE STORY IS SET ABOUT TELLING THE READERS THat HUMAN BEINGS CREATE Their own destruction ,as in the family obsessed with installing security devices but their plan backfires because in the end their son is killed by their fence.theme of the story is taht the unjust social system creates an environment of fear that can destroy both the oppresion and the .
Though it's been some years since I read Gordimer's story, I found it a powerful one. A servant woman, working for a young white couple in South Africa is suspected of having killed her baby right after it was born, having no way to look after it (whether she actually did so or not is ambiguous, but the authorities think her guilty, and she is carried off, presumably to be punished. At the same time, the white couple, who have been looking forward to a trip to Europe for some years, discover that she is pregnant; rather than let it interfere with the trip, she has an abortion, and off they go to Rome, Paris, or wherever else their travels might take them. Gordimer handles the story with great subtlety -- so subtly that when I taught the story, I found that some students missed the abortion entirely.Gordimer passes no direct judgments in her own writing, and casts no stones. Rather she leaves it up to the reader to answer the central question: what, precisely, is the moral difference, if any, between the two women on whom the story is centered, and the ways in which they handle their unwanted (or at least inconvenient) pregnancies.
1. Electronically controlled gates 2. Burglar bars attached to the doors and windows of the house, and an alarm system installed 3. The wall was made higher 4. Razor-bladed coils were placed on top of the walls of the house