Story Analysis: The Dare

”The Dare”: This story is about a young African American girl named Veronica that is dared to go onto a white man’s property to be accepted into a friend group, while she was there she witnessed her brother being beat by the white man. All of the other workers begged the man to stop but he kept on going. This signified the beginning of apartheid law by showing a white man’s supremacy.
“The Noose”: The second chapter all men have to go get their race classified and receive a certificate stating which race they are. All coloreds are forced to move and reloca Whites, coloreds and africans were not contact each other. A man is walking through the streets and brought in by the police and asked to show his certificate. He does not have it because he is not a colored, then he has to go to the police station the next day and is troubled even though he is not colored. …show more content…
Lily’s father was helping Africans in their resistance against apartheid. Since he was helping the native Africans he was arrested twice and listed as a communist. This created much tension between the mother of Caroline and the rest of her family.
“The Typewriter”: A girl named Esther made a leaflet and handed it out to other children at school which told parent workers and students not to go to school or work due to the discrimination against black individuals. She typed this on a typewriter which if the police find, will cause Esther to go to jail. To eliminate that from happening, Esther asked her cousin to help her hide it, which lead to her grandmother being accused for it and being put into jail for twelve