In America, the civil war was a big issue; It involved the injustice of White Americans having the superiority over African Americans. Although, at the same time African Americans protest for equality for all races to have justice and freedom. In a similar predicament between 1948-2000 South Africa had the history of inequality towards African Americans. They set a system of segregation called an Apartheid, which only set rules on Africans Americans or “colored” people Just like the civil war, African American people protested for equality, but was never set until years past and people became to start realizing the unjust in the situation. The Author, Beverley Naidoo was a South African prisoner. She was arrested …show more content…
The Dare explains a story told about a young African American girl being dared to go onto a white man's property and collect one of his flowers. It was an initiation to join her peers group. Although, on the property, she see’s her brother being beaten by the owner of the land for speaking out of place. This story shows the beginning of the apartheid law by portraying white peoples dominance over African Americans. “...‘Kyk hierso! Look at this! I’ll teach you a lesson you’ll never forget!’...‘Please, Baas, this boy has learnt his lesson. He won’t do it again.”(Naidoo, 14). In "The Booklist interview" They reveal the life of Mrs. Naidoo; about how she lived in South Africa and was imprisoned for protesting against apartheid. In the interview, Booklist mainly asks Naidoo how and why does she show her expression of the tragic events that happen in South Africa. She responds by explaining she shows it in a child's point of view and she expresses it for people to know her country's political history and the struggle they dealt with. “I think that's the transformation process. I spend a lot of time doing research. But then I dump most of the documentary stuff, get away from it, and imagine one child's story. I'm very interested in the experience of …show more content…
The story “The Dare”, provides the very fresh beginning of the Apartheid Law. Naidoo allows the readers to see how young African American children would begin to learn their roles in South Africa. “Veronica was trembling but she had to find out what was happening. She stretched forward to see around the corner. A small number of servants stood at a short distance from the massive figure--his face just a shade lighter than his blazing beard and hair. In front of him stood a black child with spindly legs, wearing a pair of khaki shorts, his eyes fixed on the ground. The man grabbed the boy's ear and jerked his head upwards, with his other hand forcing an orange into the boy's face.” (Naidoo, 11-12). In the story "Out of Bounds. 2000,” an Indian boy named Rohan lived in the suburbs described as the "squatters" they move next door as being "out of bounds." The community would supplying them with water when needed. But when more young men such as him move to that area fear of theft and violence grow upon the community. “Representations that connect young black men to crime are internalized across racial lines with Naidoo hinting at a post-Apartheid shift where certain types of prejudice have become linked to class rather than race. Yet this is also a story filled with hope, as Naidoo assiduously begins