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Our group
experienced there is something that might be called "development
of the reader's mind” while reading the story.
Starting to read the
story the reader gets an insight into the plot that turns into a
lack of understanding in the end. Although the living conditions
under which the reader and the character might have grown up are
definitely different, the author deliberately limits the description
of the character to incidents that could happen to any ordinary boy,
so that the reader can understand the boy’s situation and imagine what he might have experienced when he was
younger.
The
point of view technique that is used emphasizes this atmosphere. The
first-person-narrator makes the reader feel familiar with the boy
describing this round character’s thoughts and feelings more
intensively than any other perspective would be able to. When
apartheid grips the character the reader starts to lose most of his
insight. The situation gets more and more serious till the reader
realizes the fatal impacts of the apartheid laws when the boy’s
father is “reclassified” (by government for his race) and is therefore no longer allowed to stay with his
family.
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