Essay on Country Lovers - 1003 Words

Country Lover’s: A Forbidden Lover Story I chose to discuss the short story by Nadie Gordimer, Country Lovers, I will identify the theme and the literary elements that helped me with my analysis. I would consider the story Country Lovers to be the story of racial barriers that created a forbidden love story. There are many literary elements that aid my analysis, and support my interpretation of the stories theme. I will discuss how symbolism, characters, and settings supported the forbidden love story theme. The story Country Lovers is a depiction of racial boundaries and social stratifications in a South African farm in the 1900’s. This was a time when there were strong racial dividers, and mingling between races was not†¦show more content†¦This is a comparison using setting in how the social dividers played a role in forcing their love to be hidden and considered forbidden. The use of symbolism helps identify some of the phrasing in the story to better understand how Nadine Gordimer wants us to interpret the story. In the story before the boy and girl becomes a lover it says, â€Å"She put on her pair of shoes-white sandals, thickly Blanco-ed against the farm dust-when he was on the farm, but these were taked off and laid aside, at the river-bed (Clungston, 2010).† This use of symbolism using the word white when referring to her shoes makes me see the innocence and purity of Thebedi this signifying that she was pure, but that they were soon to become lovers. Symbolism gives the writer the ability to use wording to keep the story interesting, but also using words that have common symbols that can be interpreted while reading. The characters in this story were a major role in the forbidden love theme. The characters in this story were a white high social class boy, and a poor black working girl. There are many references in this story that supports the interpretation of their ethnic and social backgrounds. The boy Paulus at age fifteen was described as,†six feet tall and tramping round at school dances with girls from the â€Å"sister† school inShow MoreRelatedCountry Lovers: a Readers Response819 Words   |  4 PagesCountry Lovers, Nadine Gordimer TLC 25 November 2012 â€Æ' Nadine Gordimer dramatically depicts the theme of forbidden love in Country Lovers, but more than just the depth of this love, the forbidden relationship between races during the years of apartheid. 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