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How
does the
reader react?
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With
Lily as a first-person-narrator reflecting on the events of
apartheid and especially the massacre, the reader gets an immediate
impression of the fear, horror and the oppression that are evoked in
the little girl. Observing Lily, while she struggles to
understand the laws of apartheid, the reader, too, recognizes the
stupity of the restrictions. By depicting the story of Caroline and Lily the author personlizes the
terrible events of the 21th of March and makes them more accessible
and even more shocking to the reader. Recognizing that apartheid
even can destroy a close friendship between two little girls, draws
attention to the sinister fact that the race segregation affected
everyone in South Africa.
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