Analyse af 'The Journey to the Brothers' Farm'

South Africa was conquered by apartheid for approximately fifty years. In society it developed a distance between black and white. The social classes and values got divided, in the light of that. The main characters in the short story, The Journey to the Brothers´ Farm by Pippa Gough from 2013, Annelie and Thabo, are feeling that on their own bodies. The story process this dilemma, which in spite of the fact that it happened a long time ago, still emerges as a relevant discussion today. The two parallel settings is also insinuating another contrast between criminality and behaving as society expects you to. It is an old-fashioned way of interpreting life. Like the Greek Gods concept moiraj says, the destiny is set and you can do nothing about it.

The story is told in a first-person narrator in both parallel settings. Annelie Louw is telling the reader what happened through her thoughts and childhood experiences. It is shown on page 3 l.44-45, “Like others in Bultdorp, I had to steer a wide path around him. And my path was wider than most”. It is obvious that she has personal feelings involved, when talking about Hendricks. The fact that it is Annelie herself, who is telling the story, might make it a bit unreliable. The story tries to achieve justice and when the writer then choses to have one narrator, it leaves the reader with only one subjective side of the story.