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How Lily realizes Apartheid Throughout
the story the friendship of Lily and Caroline starts to 'grow' and
develop. Both girls try to maintain their friendship inspite of the
different attitudes of their families. The friendship is so good that Caroline doesn't tell
her parents about Uncle Max (as a black) being at Lily's house and
Lily is on her best behavior when she spends a day at Caroline's
house. There for the first time she realizes how rude Caroline's
parents talk about Africans, a thing her parents would never do.
Although Lily wants to speak up she doesn't to preserve the
friendship.
 The good
friendship starts to change when the blacks demonstrate against the
pass laws which everybody at Lily's school interprets as blacks marching to Johannesburg.
There Lily first starts to scream like all the girls
until it comes to her mind what her parents would think of a reaction like
that. Lily decides to go home on her own because she doesn't fear
blacks, as they are around her and she knows them as normal people. When
Caroline's Mum comes to take them home and Lily hears Caroline's mum
talk about blacks, she notices
that there is a huge difference between the attitude of her (family)
and Caroline's family (pg. 50-53).
When Lily gets home and hears that
Busi was shot, she understands that she can't be Caroline's friend any
longer. Later on, Alice demonstrates that the attitude of Lily and her parents
is not accepted by other whites when Lily is discriminated against at school
(pg. 56).
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