...“Dukwane’s Deliverance” written by Neil Ramsorrun in 2010. In this text we meet the high school senior, Dukwane. The young man comes out of a lower class family from Camden, and works almost every day at a fast food restaurant. Therefore he is upon happy the day he finds out that he got into King’s College in Cambridge. This is Dukwane’s chance to exit the lower class and his usual settings, and to inter his dreams in politics. Unfortunately the same day as he gets the great news, Dukwane meets a teenage gang on his way home from work. The gang is chasing a boy, and when Dukwanes stands between the gang and the boy, he gets stabbed with a knife. He gets badly injured, and the doctors tell him that he will no longer be able to walk. This puts Dukwane in a great dilemma, if he should give up or live out his dream. As mentioned earlier, the story takes place in Camden, London. It takes place in a modern world, so it could take place in 2015 as well as in 2010, where the story was written. Camden is the more cheap part of London, witch is often a place for student to live. Therefore we can assume that Dukwane’s family is not very wealthy. Another indicator to proof this point is that a gang stabs Dukwane down. This tells us something about the security and bad youth behaviour in the area, witch is characterized in a poor area. In the text we get a clear sense that Dukwane has great ambitions. He is either way an outcast from his fellow youngsters in Camden, that doesn’t quite...
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...College, Cambridge University, and he is living in London. Dukwane wants to study then get involve with politics, just like Barack Obama. One night his whole life changed, he gets stabbed by a gang, with a knife, and that result in that he would never walk again. His friend, Jermaine, comes up with the idea to get revenge on the people who did this to him, and Dukwane thought it was tempting, he was so angry at them, but he knew it was wrong. He had some sort of a hallucination, and imagined that he was talking with Obama himself. That made him realize that just because he can't walk, doesn't it mean that he can't follow his dreams. The main theme in the text is to never give up on your dreams, even when there is something in the way. The short story happens over short time, over a few days I would believe. The story starts to be at his home, where he gets the letter from King's college, then at his work, and when he gets off his job, he works home in the dark but had to drop by the grocery store and that is where he meet the gang, saves the boy and gets stabbed. He wakes up at the hospital and that is where the story ends. It starts out with him being happy about being accepted into uni, and his mood drops the longer you get into the story, but it ends with him being determined to go to uni, even through he can't walk. He gets a whole different self-esteem, and he is ready to be a successful politician. Dukwane is a young black man, who gets accepted into King's College...
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...we all have dreams. Fulfilling a dream certainly requires hard work and passion, but even that might not be enough. However, it is one place to start. In the short story “Dukwane’s Deliverance” by Neil Ramsorrun, 2010, the main character Dukwane dreams of becoming a politician: someone bigger than Barack Obama. Dukwane is black and lives in the London area where people in his environment have a racist way of thinking. Because of the opportunities and different career options education can provide, he is excited about his admission to the King’s College at Cambrigde University. One night walking back from work, some young aggressors assault Dukwane, beating him badly. This results in Dukwane ending up in the hospital, with risk of not being able to walk again. This puts Dukwane in a dilemma: either he can keep trying to make his dream become a reality or he can choose to get revenge. An omniscient narrator tells the story, giving a clear picture of Dukwan and his surroundings. Dukwane lives in Camden with his parents. Dukwane is described as being a person with integrity and always sticking up for what is right: “(…) his hand raised to try and calm the gang of four, instinctively he places his body between the kid and his pursuers”. Dukwane dreams about becoming a prominent politician, even though his dad is a skeptic: “ (…) if you make it up there, I’ll eat my pork pie hat (…) If Barack can do it,...
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...capable of doing something someone else would never have done, to have a vision of becoming something that expands beyond your social environment. However, it can absolutely be difficult to accomplish this dream and there is a chance that you can meet different obstacles that you need to conquer. Deliverance could with no doubt be the answer. “Dukwanes Deliverance” illustrate[s] this problem, by [when] the black teenager, Dukwane, sadly loses his ability to walk, while he wishes on attending [for acceptance to] Cambridge University. He has to handle the actuality, that he is black skin colored [= colored], and lives in a country where most of the population are [is] white and despite that [on top of that/in addition to that], he is paralyzed as well. The main theme in this story are [is] mirrored in this battle with difficulties, and grants you the point, that you never should quit the [your] dreams of you. The lead [main] character, Dukwane, is a black colored [black or colored] teenager who lives in Camden, London with his mother and father. His family are what you could call poor because they are not specifically wealthy, which Dukwane[‘]s job indicates. Dukewane works six shifts a week in a not so elegant fastfood restaurant [-] could perhaps be MCD [well, in the story it is called Holy Fried Chicken]. Another plausible indication of the poorness [poverty] in his family could be the fact that his father does nothing with his life, “As he looked at his father sat there, his...
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...Dukwane's Deliverance Dukwane is a gifted young man with a dream of doing great things in life. His future looks as bright as ever when he receives the letter that confirms his admittance into Cambridge University. That dream is shattered when he comes face to face with a bunch of bullies trying to murder an innocent boy. He manages to protect the boy though not without consequence. He manages to get stabbed in the process, and is maybe not able to walk ever again, he still perseveres though his ordeals from that moment on is going to be many. His legs may not be working anymore, but he sure is not going to let that get him down. Dukwane is desperate to get in to Cambridge University, and he is fixed on becoming as great a man as his role model Barack Obama. He knows that there is a big chance that he will stand out among all the white and rich people that the university usually composes of. His ethnicity doesn't get him down usually, but when he look at his parents and how they choose or ended up living their life, he gets sad because he thinks that is how he will end up if he doesn't do his best at everything. It is not unusual for kids with unsuccessful parents to want to be better than the previous generation, especially children with another ethnic background. Their parents may not have been rich and had a hard time finding work, so they ended up living in a poor area and are now unable to leave because of the lack of education. Dukwane wants to leave this area because...
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...Dukwane’s Deliverance Neil Ramsorrun has written the short story “Dukwane’s Deliverance”, and he has written the short story as a 3rd person restricted narrator. Dukwane, a black boy living in Camden, London is the main character. Dukwane is a gifted young man and has the possession to do brilliant things with his life. His highest ambition is to become a politician just like his role model Barack Obama. To Dukwane’s delight, he received a letter that confirms his admittance into Cambridge University. Dukwane was seen as a boy who always did the right thing and had the guts to do that. Therefore, he did as expected on a late evening where he accidently ran into a boy who were being chased by a gang of four. Dukwane managed to protect the boy although not without consequences. He managed to grab a stab in the process of the saving and was wounded badly. In Camden, the environment is very rough, the residents should not walk some specific places such as the canal during night-time, unless it is needed due to gangs who see the streets as “theirs” and see you as a trespasser. “Be careful that you don’t go by the canal, it’ll be dark soon.” (Line 33). On the assumption that you do not mind your own business in Camden, you will eventually regret it. After the incident Dukwane becomes apprehensive by the thought that he will stand out among all the white and rich people that the university usually composes, “how many black kids in wheelchairs do you think there are at King’s? (Line...
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