Journey To The Brothers Farm Essay

Do kids judge people in the same way that grown-ups do? Does the colour of your skin-tone matters or where in the social hierarchy you are? The mystery of skin, bones and fortunes always had been there? The British author Pippa Gough, who grew up in Africa, writes the short story ‘The Journey to the Brothers’ Farm’, which is from Upon a Time There Was a Traveller. The short story starts with a flashback, where we follow a young white girl on an ordinary school day when she was seven years old. The young girl Annelie, is a girl who is no ordinary girl, she is thoughtful and dreamy. The story that Miss Kotzee tell Annelie, make her wonder about her own fortune. "Do you ever think a prince would ever want to marry Bettina?" I mean out of Betinna and

"(p. 1-2, l. 22-28). In addition to that it will be described that it directly is an individual testimony as Annalie describes the police, so that the description is also written in italics. The language also makes you sense that it is a testimony and the way Annelie also tells are much more sober and patchy than we see when we switch over to the personal narrative. If you look at the two stories, one can compare them and see the difference between the two narrators, in testimony will be omitted many details and information. Annelie telling example far from everything she knows about and experience in Hendriks to the police: "I had learned two steer a wide path around sky. And my path was wider than most". (p. 2, l. 44-45). Where in the personal story she tells also how Hendriks once molested sexually on her, and they never spoke after the incident: "(...) Then I remember the pressure of the hard ground on my back, the sound of my clothes tearing and Hendriks breathing heavily into my neck. The sudden pain between my legs took me by surprise (...) Catching me by the elbow he spat into my ear, 'You asked for that, you little tease. Tell anyone and I readily them know how easy you are. ' (...) I