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In chapter, One Day Lily on Day of Out of the Bounds , the main character is Lily and she was affected by the oppression of apartheid. the first good piece of evidence is “The passes that make their lives a misery that control where they must live, where they must- everything”. (64) this means that the passbooks make the black south africans life a completely misery because they can’t go out of their homes without the passes. Passbook are a lice that the black people from south africa need to have, the passbook made the black people a misery because they came go to the street without passbook because they provability go to the jail. If police catches them and they go to the jail until the passbook would appear. In the chapter One Day Lily One Day, Lily see all of the injustice by the white population of the oppression because she was white but does not support the injustice that the white government do to the black people a great example of the injustice is the relationships between groups and between social classes are justified on the basis of a more or less equitable distribution of public and private goods and the benefits associated with national, economic growth. Therefore, In the chapter One day Lily One day the oppression by the whites to the blacks is …show more content…
Some women even laughed, but then boies started following. Everyone was running away, but the police went on shooting”. This means that the white police don’t care about if they are shooting kids and women. For me I think that they just want to kill blacks doesn't matter if are women or kid they just want to eliminate the blacks. This is a good example of oppression because In chapter, One Day Lily on Day of Out of the Bounds, the main character is Lily and she was affected by the oppression of apartheid.That is why the apartheid was a fight that affected whites and blacks because whites have more opportunities for educations and better

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