Summary Of The Guilt By Lilian Thhurgood

Let me start with a question. Do you know about the discrimination that existed in South Africa? There is a story that is based on that time. It tries to talk about how the white people in South Africa thought of the black people in South Africa as not human and thought of them as criminals. In “The Guilt”, there is a character named Lilian Thurgood, who is a white South African, that depicts the South Africans at that time. In my speech, I would like to talk about Lilian Thurgood.

In “The Guilt”, there is a black man called Williams who was asking for money, and he reached Lilian Thurgood’s house asking for money. He got money from Lilian and therefore decided to work for the money. After he had been done with the work, he realized that he had worked for long and he asked Lilian extra money. Lilian thought that he was a thief like all the other black South Africans, and attacked him thinking that he tried to rob her. It is a very interesting story that tries to talk about the discrimination of the blacks done by the whites. From the story, I think that Lilian Thurgood was not right, and she did the wrong thing. Therefore, I would like to critic what she did in the story “The Guilt”, farther ahead in the speech.

There were many factors that affected how Lilian was or affected her thinking of the black South Africans as criminals, which affected how she perceived William during the incident and caused her to attack him.

Firstly, she didn’t take time to understand what