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    A Forbidden Love: Thebedi and Paulus Jennifer Boozer ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Kristina Stutler March 24‚ 2013 Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer is a short story centered around the theme of forbidden love between the two main characters Paulus and Thebedi. They met when they were kids‚ as Thebedi used to work on Paulus ’ father ’s farm. They used to sneak out and meet at the river bed. After Paulus went off to veterinary school‚ Thebedi had his baby. When Paulus

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    Country Lover’s: A Forbidden Lover Story I chose to discuss the short story by Nadie Gordimer‚ Country Lovers‚ I will identify the theme and the literary elements that helped me with my analysis. I would consider the story Country Lovers to be the story of racial barriers that created a forbidden love story. There are many literary elements that aid my analysis‚ and support my interpretation of the stories theme. I will discuss how symbolism‚ characters‚ and settings supported the forbidden

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    writing. Recently I have had the pleasure of reading the short story “Country Lovers”‚ by Nadine Gordimer and in this paper I will explain how she used the narrative elements of plot‚ theme and point of view to enhance her story and make it a richer experience. The story “Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer is a story about love and race. This story starts with a childhood love and grows into adulthood. “Country Lovers” is a story that deals with a forbidden love between a black woman named

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    Country Lovers Kimberly Robinson ENG 125-Introduction to Literature Katherine Ness March 8‚ 2010 Literature is a wonderful journey that takes you into an imaginary experience that will take you away from your everyday life into an entire new world. Literature has a way of providing you with entertainment while educating you of many different facts and situations. It teaches you new perspectives to look at daily situations. You are pulled away from a living‚ breathing world into one that

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    COUNTRY LOVERS PAULA SCOTT ASH FORD UNIVERSITY ENG 125 JOAN GOLDING A story of forbidden love on a South African farm‚ one child nothing more than a farm worker‚ as the other one prepares for boarding school. Both ignorant to the color of their skins‚ all they knew they were best friends playing together until they grew up

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    Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer is a story of an inter-racial love between a slave and her master’s son. It demonstrates how the prejudice and racism destroys the innocent. To have a deeper understanding of the story‚ and understand what the author seeks to communicate through it‚ one must analyze the underlying theme (Clugston‚ 2010). “Country Lovers” is a story set in the time when owning African Americans was acceptable in society. In this story‚ children of slaves and slave owners

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    Turner Kela English 1C 18 January 2013 Dr. Williams L. James Country Lovers Every culture has their own judgment on love and how it’s suppose to go? Whoever said love came with a manual and rules to tell how to love or who to love? There are negative and positive outcomes‚ that comes along with it. Country Lovers shows the readers what love and intimacy meant to them and how it affected their lives because they broke the “rules” in both of their cultures. They live in an abnormal lifestyle

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    Country Lovers The story portrays the apartheid system. Paulus: * He is a white upper-class Afrikaner. * Truly in love with Thebedi‚ his love for her is growing. The love is genuine. They have grown up together‚ therefore they have a strong. His love for the white girls is only of a physical love‚ it is superficial. Is Thebedi just entertainment? * He is not as emotional as Thebedi. Thebedi: * She is a farm worker. She is from the worker-class. * Strong love for Paulus

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    Country lovers Country Lovers is a story of love between a black woman and the son of her white master. It was a story of a love that began out of childhood romance‚ and later‚ in adulthood‚ lead to flirting and sexual curiosity. Eventually‚ Thebedi‚ the black woman‚ got pregnant with his‚ Paulus‚ child without him knowing it. He left for college and when he came back‚ he found out that Thebedi was married to Njabulo. Njabulo had accepted the child as his own but Paulus overcome with fear upon

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    Nadine Qordimer (b. 1923) South Africa 332 NADINE GORDIMER COUNTRY LOVERS The farm children play together when they are small; but once the white children go away to school they soon don’t play together any more‚ even in the holidays. Although most of the black children get some sort of schooling‚ they drop every year farther behind the grades passed by the white children; the childish vocabulary‚ the child’s exploration of the adventurous possibilities of dam‚ koppies‚ mealie lands and

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