ANALYSIS PART OF FINAL PROJECT-MANAGERIAL AND
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING (D196)
, African Literature
Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923 in Springs, Transvaal in South Africa.
She was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose work would focus on bringing
awareness to injustice and alienation. She was born in a privileged white middle class family and
began reading at an early age. She was able to publish her first story in a magazine when she was
15 years old. She wrote many books on apartheid which was racial segregation happening
specifically in South Africa. This was something that they didn’t deserve to go through. But,
Nadine’s experiences show us how even in a privileged community she was able to see her own
ignorance and was willing to try to make a difference.
When looking at Amnesty by Nadine, we see a story unfold where a couple faces racial
adversity and a husband is put in jail. However, it touches on injustice towards African
Americans too which acknowledges what her work was based on. Nadine also wrote a book
called “The Lying Days” where Helen is the main character who grows up in a White American
community and she’s privileged from the beginning, meanwhile there’s people working in mines
and having very little resources. However, she begins to explore other cultures such as people of
color and Jewish people, which her parents are against because of how comfortable they’ve
become in their own bubble. There’s a particular quote from the book that caught my attention
which was, “And some grew only children, crawling and huddling in the dust with only eyes
looking out of dust,” I thought this showed how Helen was getting to know other worlds, other
perspectives to expand what she thought she knew was enough. I think it came into play with
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING (D196)
, African Literature
Nadine Gordimer was born on November 20, 1923 in Springs, Transvaal in South Africa.
She was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose work would focus on bringing
awareness to injustice and alienation. She was born in a privileged white middle class family and
began reading at an early age. She was able to publish her first story in a magazine when she was
15 years old. She wrote many books on apartheid which was racial segregation happening
specifically in South Africa. This was something that they didn’t deserve to go through. But,
Nadine’s experiences show us how even in a privileged community she was able to see her own
ignorance and was willing to try to make a difference.
When looking at Amnesty by Nadine, we see a story unfold where a couple faces racial
adversity and a husband is put in jail. However, it touches on injustice towards African
Americans too which acknowledges what her work was based on. Nadine also wrote a book
called “The Lying Days” where Helen is the main character who grows up in a White American
community and she’s privileged from the beginning, meanwhile there’s people working in mines
and having very little resources. However, she begins to explore other cultures such as people of
color and Jewish people, which her parents are against because of how comfortable they’ve
become in their own bubble. There’s a particular quote from the book that caught my attention
which was, “And some grew only children, crawling and huddling in the dust with only eyes
looking out of dust,” I thought this showed how Helen was getting to know other worlds, other
perspectives to expand what she thought she knew was enough. I think it came into play with
