1.Style: fiction
2.Author: Ahmed Essop
3.Setting: the story tok place at Oriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
4.Summary of main charactors:
Mrs nebo. She was a wife of Mr. Clive Nebo, the future foreign minister of South Africa. She was a rich lady. She was also a classy woman. Mr Sukur .He was a shopkeeper in the Oriental Plaza. He was also a very stubborn man.
5.Plot:
This short story started the wife of an important man, who caused a stir in the plaza by trying to buy a scarf with a cheque in a shop that did not accept them. One day Mrs. Nebo went shopping at the plaza with her friend Margaret. Mrs. Nebo was wearing her best dress with colours of pink and magenta. She was looking for a silk scarf to match her dress. When she went into a shop, she saw one that she loved so much and wanted to buy it.It was a joy to her, unfortunately she did not have cash and the shop did not accept cheques. This was an insult to a wife of such an important man in politics. She tried to force the shopkeeper Mr. Sakur to accept the cheque, but he would not budge. A rule is a rule. Mrs. Nebo also put her foot down that she is not leaving the store without the scarf. This caused a commotion in the plaza. Other shopkeepers felt that Mr. Sakur should have made an exception for her, since she is the wife of the future foreign minister. The other shopkeepers, afraid that something might happen, had just decided to buy the scarf and gave it to the lady as a gift instead!
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Short story: Through the tunnel
1.Style: fiction
2.Author: dorris lessing
3.Settings: On a winter holiday ,in New Yorker
4.Sammary of main charactors:
Jerry, was a young boy with eleven years old. he never give upbecause he try strange things such as swimming in the deep ocean.
5.Plot:
In Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," Jerry, a young English boy, and his mother are vacationing at a beach they have come to many times in years past. Though the beach's location is not given, it is implied to be in a country that is foreign to them both. Each tries to please the other and not to impose too many demands. The mother, who is a widow, is "determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion," and Jerry, in turn, acts from an "unfailing impulse of contrition—a sort of chivalry."
On the second morning, however, Jerry lets it slip that he would like to explore a "wild and rocky bay" he has glimpsed from the path. His conscientious mother sends him on his way with what she hopes is a casual air, and Jerry leaves behind the crowded "safe beach" where he has always played. A strong swimmer, Jerry plunges in and goes so far out that he can see his mother only as a small yellow speck back on the other beach.
Looking back to shore, Jerry sees some boys strip off their clothes and go running down to the rocks, and he swims over toward them but keeps his distance. The boys are "of that coast; all of them were burned smooth dark brown and speaking a language he did not understand. To be with them, of them was a craving that filled his whole body." He watches the boys, who are older and bigger than he is, until finally one waves at him and Jerry swims eagerly over. As soon as they realize he is a foreigner, though, they forget about him, but he is happy just to be among them.
Jerry joins them in diving off a high point into the water for a while, and then the biggest boy dives in and does not come up. "One moment, the morning seemed full of chattering boys; the next, the air and the surface of the water were empty.
2.Author: dorris lessing
3.Settings: On a winter holiday ,in New Yorker
4.Sammary of main charactors:
Jerry, was a young boy with eleven years old. he never give upbecause he try strange things such as swimming in the deep ocean.
5.Plot:
In Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," Jerry, a young English boy, and his mother are vacationing at a beach they have come to many times in years past. Though the beach's location is not given, it is implied to be in a country that is foreign to them both. Each tries to please the other and not to impose too many demands. The mother, who is a widow, is "determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion," and Jerry, in turn, acts from an "unfailing impulse of contrition—a sort of chivalry."
On the second morning, however, Jerry lets it slip that he would like to explore a "wild and rocky bay" he has glimpsed from the path. His conscientious mother sends him on his way with what she hopes is a casual air, and Jerry leaves behind the crowded "safe beach" where he has always played. A strong swimmer, Jerry plunges in and goes so far out that he can see his mother only as a small yellow speck back on the other beach.
Looking back to shore, Jerry sees some boys strip off their clothes and go running down to the rocks, and he swims over toward them but keeps his distance. The boys are "of that coast; all of them were burned smooth dark brown and speaking a language he did not understand. To be with them, of them was a craving that filled his whole body." He watches the boys, who are older and bigger than he is, until finally one waves at him and Jerry swims eagerly over. As soon as they realize he is a foreigner, though, they forget about him, but he is happy just to be among them.
Jerry joins them in diving off a high point into the water for a while, and then the biggest boy dives in and does not come up. "One moment, the morning seemed full of chattering boys; the next, the air and the surface of the water were empty.
How easy/difficult when creating blogger?
*creating the blogger was:
-easy
-injoyable
-understandle due to steps and gidence given
-it took me less than 7 minutes to finish it
-it require completions of many steps
-i was already having gmail address , that make it easy for me to finish vcreating it on time
-the speeding was somehow affected by internet
-the uploading of picture was difficult
-the additing of the profile was good
-selecting URL was like piece of chocoreate
-easy
-injoyable
-understandle due to steps and gidence given
-it took me less than 7 minutes to finish it
-it require completions of many steps
-i was already having gmail address , that make it easy for me to finish vcreating it on time
-the speeding was somehow affected by internet
-the uploading of picture was difficult
-the additing of the profile was good
-selecting URL was like piece of chocoreate
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