Reading the two short stories “Country Lover” who was written by Nadine Gordimer (1923), and “The Welcome Table” whom was written by Alice Walker (1970). these two stories I enjoyed reading because it shows feelings, pain, hate, and two women older and younger go through these emotions and the struggled that they had to go through. Even though one is younger and the other is older it shows that no matter how old you are it does not matter what kind of racism you face because it was a lot of that going on.

With comparing these two stories it has a few things that are the same, like they both deal with interracial environment. In Country Lover this two kids had feelings for each other and knowing what the outcome would be but they made love and had a baby knowing that they could not see each other because of what color they were. In The Welcome Table this older women just wanted to attend church and she did not know what kind of church it was she just wanted to go to church even though that church was an all white church only. Country Lover when finding out that Thebedi was pregnant, when Paulus did not want that baby because it was mixed and that could not happened, so he decided to kill his baby and threatened Thebedi to kill her if she said anything. That is when she felt the pain her baby was dead when she heard the news “Thebedi was numb because her hands were cold as dead chicken's feet”(Clugston, 2010). In The Welcome Table she was faced with pain and hurt when all she wanted to do was praise God and attend church to do so. When they saw this older women they looked at her like she did not belong because she did not. They looked at this women like she was the worse person in the world because she went into a white church. Now the wives was no better because instead of them having some kind of feelings they had their husband throw her out they threw her out the back door “they placed their hard fists under the old women arms they raised their fists, flexed their muscular shoulders and out she flew” (Clugston,2010). With these short stories they had racism which in certain areas they still exist and in other areas they do not, like racism interracial is still happening rather people like it or not. People out here in today’s society have their rights to love anyone of any color with racism I just think it should not happened but it is and at the end you can control everyone and what they think or feel about anything. Another similarity is that both stories is told from a third person omniscient point of view. The way that the narrator told the story and the way that third person knew how the character felt, in the story “The Welcome Table” when the old lady was walking to the church the way she was described she wore a “rusty dress adorned with an old corsage” with a “ remnants of an elegant silk scarf” (Clugston,2010). Or in the “Country Lovers when the narrator describe Thebedi baby when she said that the baby was “pale, plump tiny face with a bubble of spit at the corner of the mouth” (Clugston,2010)with the third person telling both stories they are looking from their point of view which makes it more interesting to hear what the third person thinks about the stories. However, when analyzing the story “The Welcome Table” its says that this older lady wanted to go to church and came across an all white church. When she entered this church, the people looked at her “upon their own fear transferred, a fear of the black and the old, a terror unknown as well as of the deeply known”(Clugston,2010). When the third person is telling this story she desribe her as “lean and wrinkled” the narrator aslo desribe her face which was her eyes as “blue brown.” When the white people of this church saw this women their eyes turned into fear. When the wives got fed up with looking at her their husbands throw her out the back door. After expercineg that she saw a man in the shadows walking she saw Jesus, now the way the narrtor desribe Jesus they she desribe his clothes as “an immaculate (Clugston, 2010). When this lady spotted Jesus she was joyful, with her walking and talking to Jesus about what this people did to her at the church he did not respond he just kept slience while she did all the talking, as they both contuiend their walking which they stop and took a break realzing that this women who was walking with God had died on the side of the highway. This lady had no worries and no cares when she started walking with Jesus she told him what happened and at the end of it all God called her home. Analyzing the story “Country Lover” written by Nadine Gordimer, this author is from South Africa “Country Lover” is about two kids of the opposite race whose's love went from childhood to adulthood. Paulus who was a son of a weathy farmer and Thebedi who was the worker of Paulus dad. These two made love on severeal occasion and Thebedi got pregrent without letting Paulus know because he was away at school, now their was this other guy who was very insetred in Thebedi his name was Njabulo. Njabulo loved and cared about Thebedi as they became adults Njabulo went to Thebedi dad and asked to marry Thebedi and they got married. When Paulus got back from school he discovered that Thebedi was married and had a baby. However, Njabulo the husband accepted that baby like it was his own and he never questioned Thebedi about it. When Paulus find out that he was a dad he was not happy because he knew that was forbidden in South Africa, being the opposite color you was not allowed to date each other. With Paulus knowing the situation he decided took take this situations into his own hands, so the following day the baby was dead. Nadine Gordimer knew what she was doing with this short story she placed the them around Thebed, for example, Thebedi had her fisrst love with a white boy they made love and had a relationship which they both knew was forbidden, another one was Thebedi was a black women who worked for the white people. Being Thebedi in South Africa black people felt powerless like they was afraid to stand up for themeseleves. Reason being Paulus killed his and her baby and he “threatened to shoot her if she told anyone.” ( Clugston, 2010).” Thebedi felt like she could not offened her baby or herself in fron of the court the second time around. When she went to court she told the court what had happened and later on when she went back to court she told them she does not know what happened. That's how it was on this farm they did not believe her story and they had to move on knowing that her baby is dead and the person who did it was the person who she once loved and cared about.