South Africa

By: Shahanna Marie B. Buenafe, BSN II-A

By:
Nadine
Gordimer
 Nadine Gordimer, a South African
author, was the daughter of Lithuanian
Jewish immigrants. Born in Springs, a
mining town near Johannesburg,
Nadine wrote ten novels and nine short
story collections which reflect politics
like an unforgiving mirror held up to
the South African government. Her
ABOUT THE written works gave her the Nobel Prize
AUTHOR for Literature in 1991. Under
apartheid, the official government
policy of racial separation, she was
raised in a segregated society and
attended private schools. As a child,
she question the segregation policies,
why black children could not enjoy the
things that the white children do.
 When the civil war began, they lost everything:
their parents and their home. The bandits
raided their village repeatedly and took
everything away. Until the day came that their
grandparents found and take them away. The
grandmother, with the hope of finding a better
place for her and her grandchildren, decided
SUMMARY to move to the neighboring country. They met
a group of people along the way who were
also going away and they joined them. Along
their journey, they all have to go through the
Kruger Park wherein they moved and lived
stealthily like the animals there, keeping
themselves safe and away from the white
people and the wild animals.
 One time, the grandfather went away to ease
himself and never came back again. They waited
and searched for him for a day but he never
return. So, they decided to leave him behind with
the thought that he might be dead. Few days have
passed, they reached a big tent for refugees.
There, they were well taken care of. They were
never hungry and they were safe. The
SUMMARY grandmother has found a job. She sent her two
older grandchildren to school and bought them
school shoes. In the end, the grandmother’s bitter
feelings surfaced when a journalist asked her if
she would ever go back to Mozambique. Her
answer is a categorical 'no', because everything is
gone. This left the young girl perplexed as she still
hopes to return to her homeland and find her
parents and grandfather there.
 oThe little girl (PROTAGONIST) – the
narrator of the story who has an
extreme naïve idea of what the future
will hold.
o The grandmother, Gogo
(PROTAGONIST) – the one who
MAJOR became the point of strength for the
CHARACTERS children and gave them all the help
they needed to continue their
journey.
o The bandits (ANTAGONIST) – the
group of people who threaten the
lives of many.
 oThe little girl’s father
oThe little girl’s mother
oThe little girl’s elder brother
SUPPORTING
CHARACTERS o The little girl’s baby brother
oThe grandfather
oThe man who led the people all
throughout the journey
 SETTINGS:
Mozambique
The Kruger Park
ELEMENTS
OF POINT OF VIEW:
THE The short story “The Ultimate Safari”
STORY was told in First Person Perspective as
the narrator contextually used the
pronoun “I” in expressing her views.
 SYMBOLISMS:
The title itself is one of the biggest uses of
symbolism in the story. “The Ultimate Safari,” if we
are going to dissect each word, it can be rephrased
ELEMENTS as “The Extreme Journey.”
The little girl symbolizes hope and childish optimism.
OF The grandmother symbolizes strength, courage, and
THE sacrifice.

STORY The grandfather symbolizes weakness and frailty,

and sacrifice
The Kruger Park symbolizes their homeland,
Mozambique.
The white people symbolizes racial discrimination.
 SYMBOLISMS:
The huge electric fence surrounding the park
symbolizes apartheid.
The bandits symbolize death much like “the lions in
the city.”
ELEMENTS The elephants and their babies symbolize family.
OF The lions symbolize danger much like “the bandits in
the jungle.”
THE The birds circling overhead were much like the
STORY bandits, too. Also, they represent the death of the
grandfather.
The big tent symbolizes the huge success of the
refugees as they reached the camp.
The polished shoes symbolizes the bright future that
awaits for the children.
 THEME:
The central insight of the story is “apartheid,
sacrifice, courage, and hope. ” Because even though
ELEMENTS there’s a war taking place in their country, they never
OF lose hope and they strive to go out and work toward
peace.
THE
STORY MORAL:
One should never lose hope for the future; that one
day, better things will come our way because without
hope, there is nothing left for us to look forward to.
 In the end, the grandmother’s bitter
feelings surfaced when a journalist
asked her if she would ever go back
to Mozambique. Her answer is a
CONCLUSION categorical 'no', because everything
is gone. This left the young girl
perplexed as she still hopes to return
to her homeland and find her parents
and grandfather there.
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