This wouldn’t be strange, had Benjamin not lived a several day’s journey from the port town, or in the kloof where, “God had had nothing left but stones and dust and wagon trees and rhinoceros bush and aloes.” (Matthee, 12) On the day that the two peace breakers go to Fiela’s home, Benjamin is only twelve years old (19), and he is playing with his wooden boats that his mother says he is constantly carving and floating down the river (16). Specifically, Benjamin walks up to her mother and the gentlemen talking right when Fiela believes that she avoided the men finding out about Benjamin’s race. In this key moment, standing in the corner with a dripping boat in his small hands, Benjamin forever alters his own life and begins a journey to discover his own individual
This wouldn’t be strange, had Benjamin not lived a several day’s journey from the port town, or in the kloof where, “God had had nothing left but stones and dust and wagon trees and rhinoceros bush and aloes.” (Matthee, 12) On the day that the two peace breakers go to Fiela’s home, Benjamin is only twelve years old (19), and he is playing with his wooden boats that his mother says he is constantly carving and floating down the river (16). Specifically, Benjamin walks up to her mother and the gentlemen talking right when Fiela believes that she avoided the men finding out about Benjamin’s race. In this key moment, standing in the corner with a dripping boat in his small hands, Benjamin forever alters his own life and begins a journey to discover his own individual