Contry lovers. * By Nadine Gordimer.

The main character in the story was a black women and a white boy named Thebedi and Paulus, they tuned in to lovers, and would meet at the river, it was the one place they could meet each other. It was a place children could play, between old stinkwoods and cape willow trees. In the story it is here we see signs of happiness in the main characters. By the river there where asparagus in between the trunks, and prickly pear cactus sunken skinned and bristly. In the summertime there was warm, and the river had a waterfall, it was a place where kids could go to experienced new and interesting things in the nature. The river was a symbol of happiness and enjoyment of life for the main characters, it was the place they go to play when small, and the place where the young lovers could be together would out anyone knowing, a place where the young lovers could go to be together without thinking of their skin colour. The river was a feeling of freedom.

The farmhouse is the house that Paulus live in, he live there with his family, a wealthy family. They lived in a big, old house with thick walls and a house full og heavy furniture The dining room with the bulging legged, heavy table was shut up in its rich, old smell of soup and tomato souse. The feeling from the description of the house is a hard felling of darkness and negativity, a place where the two young lovers was bound of a feeling of farness and danger from being caught.

The river side was a place for the two to relax, the enjoyed being together, they stayed from morning to evening, talking and swimming, a place without limitation. In the farmhouse it was different, they didn’t fell free, all the time worried someone was gonna catch them.
By the river they had opportunities to improve their relationship, but just the opposite at the farmhouse where Paulus had to hide every ting he get from thebedi

The story Country lovers is written by Nadine Gordimer , it is from the 19th century, this was when Africa was under the apartheid time, it was a time where white people and black people was not equal .