The short story “John Fortune” deals with our perception of other people, and the necessity of having something to live for. Lindiwe is a young woman from Africa, to be more correct South Africa. She grew up in the dangerous slums of Johannesburg, before getting a scholarship to study abroad, from the Bishop of Soweto. She’s very grateful for her opportunity to leave Johannesburg, and live in London. But her happiness is clouded by her sense of guilt, towards the ones she has left behind. You might believe that she joins the Centre in attempt to justify her better lifestyle.
When she notices John Fortune at first, she feels uneasy, and she starts to build up images in her head, images of John being an untidy old man. It’s also described in the text, how she feels every time she sees John. “That is it, a rift in the lute that is the feeling I get every time I see him. Uneasy, that’s what I am, uneasy.”
One day John calls Lindiwe on the phone, and asks her how they run the Centre, she works at and stuff like that. Later on he gets an appointment in the Centre, so that he can talk to Ahmad. Ahmad recognizes John and stretches out his arms to give him a hug. We get to know that John lived and worked in India, for thirty years.
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