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The Story "One Day, Lily, One Day" is
about the relationship between whites who support blacks and whites
who want to hang on to the situation of Apartheid in South Africa.
These two different attitudes are shown by Lily's and Caroline's
families. While Lily's family supports the blacks and tries to help
them to improve their situation, Caroline's parents (like most
whites in South Africa during that time) can't understand this
because in their minds blacks are no humans. Lily's dad is taken to
prison for helping blacks. Lily
as the daughter of whites who support the blacks gets to experience what Apartheid means during the
story. At the beginning Lily can't understand that there is a
difference between blacks and whites, as you can see when she cries
for Uncle Max to take her to the park (p. 43). In the end,
however, she has understood that people make a difference between
whites and blacks. She quits her friendship with Caroline, who once
was her best and only friend. But that's not everything, she also
starts to believe in what the rest of her family, Uncle Max and
Janey believe in: if they work on it the situation will change one
day (p. 58). Steffen
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