Essay On "The Lemon Orchard" By Alex La Guma
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Publicado: 3 de julio de 2012
“The Lemon Orchard”
Essay N. 2
How do you admire the teacher? Why is he not well regarded? Through the use of dramatic irony La Guma shows how white people are reallynot worth respect. Do you agree?
In “The Lemon Orchard” by Alex La Guma the author depicts the cruelty with which “justice” is done. His story notices that the treatmentshown is universal in literature as in the world.
The most representative issue that is treated in the story is the dominations of white people towards black men; “Ateacher in a school for which we pay, he lives off our sweat, and he had the audacity of being cheeky towards a minister of our church.” This shows his not only a “slim hotnot”but a teacher, who teaches in a white school, influencing the society and most important, the future of it, the children.
Another good description of reality is shown byLa Guma, through nature “he is a good watchdog. I offered Mr. Marais five pounds for that dog, but he won’t sell.” This sentence is both, to keep demostrating the abuse-saying he would take better care of a dog than of a human- and a technique used to break the atmosphere that was building up in the story and create suspense.
Eventually theman is finally killed, so brutally the author chose not to describe it, but to use a metaphor with a lemon of how it was squashed and its smell became suffocating; that issimilar to what happened to the apartheid, the people pushed so hard against it, it eventually had to be disbanded.
La Guma, by the use of metaphors, images and the mainidea of racism built up a solid story which speaks of cruelty, of discrimination, condoning racism, having many points in common with his own life.
Juan Pedro Alonso 3º
Essay N. 2
How do you admire the teacher? Why is he not well regarded? Through the use of dramatic irony La Guma shows how white people are reallynot worth respect. Do you agree?
In “The Lemon Orchard” by Alex La Guma the author depicts the cruelty with which “justice” is done. His story notices that the treatmentshown is universal in literature as in the world.
The most representative issue that is treated in the story is the dominations of white people towards black men; “Ateacher in a school for which we pay, he lives off our sweat, and he had the audacity of being cheeky towards a minister of our church.” This shows his not only a “slim hotnot”but a teacher, who teaches in a white school, influencing the society and most important, the future of it, the children.
Another good description of reality is shown byLa Guma, through nature “he is a good watchdog. I offered Mr. Marais five pounds for that dog, but he won’t sell.” This sentence is both, to keep demostrating the abuse-saying he would take better care of a dog than of a human- and a technique used to break the atmosphere that was building up in the story and create suspense.
Eventually theman is finally killed, so brutally the author chose not to describe it, but to use a metaphor with a lemon of how it was squashed and its smell became suffocating; that issimilar to what happened to the apartheid, the people pushed so hard against it, it eventually had to be disbanded.
La Guma, by the use of metaphors, images and the mainidea of racism built up a solid story which speaks of cruelty, of discrimination, condoning racism, having many points in common with his own life.
Juan Pedro Alonso 3º
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