...The story The Journey to the brothers’ farm is a short story written by the British author Pippa Gough. The short story is from Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller. The Journey to the brothers’ farm tells the story of a woman named Annelie Louw who runs Louw Stores on her own since her husband, Vernon Louw, died three years ago. Every Monday she drives to Tweekopfontein to stock up on good for the store from Van Riebeck Wholesalers. Her journey takes her past the turn-off to Veldplatt, the Krugers’ farm. During her car journey she gets flashbacks of her childhood, when she used to live at Bloumeer Farm, the farm closest to the Krugers’ Farm. On her way to the Tweekopfontein a figure grabs her attention. On the ground lays one of her good childhood friends, Thabo, injured. He tells her about the accident that took place last night at the Krugers’ Farm and drives off to the farm. She finds two of the Krugers’ brothers dead and the third, Hendriks, lying on a path. She pointes the gun at him and tell him about his brothers death and he kills himself. The main character in the short story is Annelie Louw. She is a woman in her late thirties perhaps. In the begging of the story she is a seven years old girl and in the present time it is 30 years later. She was married to man who died three years ago. She owns a store and is doing the job on her own. Throughout the story we learn to know her better. We learn about her past and her present. Her actions prove to the reader...
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...Analysis of “The Journey to the Brothers’ Farm” Sometimes in life, something so terrible happens to you that it haunts you for the rest of your life. Even though it happened long ago, it might still feel, as though it is fresh in your memory. This is the kind of burden that has weighted on Annelie Louw’s shoulders for thirty years and when faced with her demon she makes a drastic decision. A first person narrator tells Pippa Gough’s ‘The Journey to the Brother’s Farm’. We follow the narrator Annelie Louw’s flashbacks to her childhood, and her description of what took place at the Brothers’ Farm as she writes her statement about the event to the police. The first person narrator is often unreliable and Annelie lies in her sworn statement, which suggests that she is too, at least for the police. However, the short story focuses upon the protagonist’s feelings about a specific event, and as we follow her thoughts and she does not seem to be in any form of denial, she is trustworthy to the reader. The composition of the story is based around the protagonist’s statement, and it is not arranged in a chronological order, but jumps back and forth between the statement and her memories. This gives the reader an insight into Annelie’s thoughts and feelings about the event that is not visible in the police statement. The story largely follows the Hollywood-model, with the childhood flashback as a prelude and her memories until she meets Thabo and the small sequences from...
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...The Journey to the Brothers’ FarmThe apartheid era in South Africa caused a separation between black and white people. The white people had the upper hand, because they had a way stronger financial background, which enabled them to employ black people to work for them. The black people were therefore undermined, and they worked as slaves. This problem is processed in the short story “The Journey to the Brothers’ Farm”, in which we are introduced to a girl named Annelie. She lives in South Africa, and has experienced terrible things, where she has experienced apartheid at first hand. The composition of the story is very interesting as it is build up in two parts. The part written in italic contains a statement received by the Tweekopfentein Police Station, and contains the things that are important to cover the police investigation and nothing more. The part written in normal typing contains a story of the whole course. It is a special way of building a short story, and it works very effectively, because you become aware of the fact that a criminal act has taken place. The first part of the story contains a description of her childhood. A lady named Miss Kotzee reads a story about a girl called Dulcina, a beautiful girl with white skin, flaxen hair of the purest silk, and fine bones. As she has read the story Annelie starts to wonder whether if she can obtain same fortune herself. She therefore asks Miss Kotzee if she can:“Do you think a prince would ever want to marry Bettina...
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...to make friends here who could help them in starting their new life here. They didn’t know how to do anything on the farm and the man who sold them the farm took advantage of them. He wanted her to survive in this new world. He knew she had so many obstacles starting off in America and if one of them could be resolved it would make her life easier. She needed to learn the English language and Jim could teach her this. I feel Jim...
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...Movie Summary- The Hero’s Journey For this assignment I decided to rewatch a movie I know that follows the hero’s journey very well, and that is “O Brother, Where Art Thou” by Joel Coen, starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and John Goodman. The call to adventure in this movie is when the three farm workers decided to escape their work farm, and a black man that is blind predicts that their quest to fortune will give them nothing but failure. The refusal of the call is when Pete (one of the workers) doubts of the man’s prediction. The supernatural aid in this film is obviously the blind man that predicts the future. The first threshold the prisoners have to pass is to escape the farm they were sent to to work. The men enter the belly of the whale when Pete’s cousin calls the police to arrest the men for the money he would get in reward and the prisoners have to advance past this step...
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...Jim Casy – Jim was a preacher who used to preach out his belief in god to everyone and was proud to be a follower. • Loyal – he goes to prison for getting in a fight that Tom began. • Truthful – he stopped preaching because he didn’t believe in what teaching. Tom Joad – Tom was the main character in the book and was involved in conflict throughout the book, also was the favorite child out of his brothers and sisters. • Role model – became the family prize as he walked around not caring for what he did in the past. He’s a guide to what the family should become. His family members look up to him to keep the family name alive. • Concentrated – Tom believes that what he can achieve, his family can achieve. He is hardworking to get the respect he needs from...
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...the rest of the guys at the ranch by owning their own farm. They dream of one day combining their money to buy a little house with a couple of acres, cows, vegetables, rabbits, etc. Lennie essentially desires to take care of the rabbits on the farm as they provide him with a sense of security and responsibility of being able to take care of something since he cannot protect and take care of himself. For George, owning his own farm means that he doesn’t have to worry about Lennie getting into trouble, he can be independent. For Candy, his dream is to be part of George and Lennie’s dream to own a piece of their farm so that his life will have a purpose. In the story Curley’s wife admits that before she got married she yearned to be a movie...
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...of two his parents and five siblings traveled on a boat to the United States. Their original plan to get to the United States was to come over on the Titanic but my great great grandmother became ill and they were unable to travel. Their trip then got pushed back for two weeks and once she was healthy they boarded a different boat for their long journey to New York. It was a very long boat ride, consisting of about two weeks. Once they ported in New York they made their long journey to Minnesota, the great state of 10,000 lakes. My great grandma Denise, Nels wife, was born here in Minnesota. Her parents originally came from Denmark right before she...
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...Hunger Games, Star wars, and Ender’s Game hero’s journey all compare and contrast in their approach to the hero’s journey in many ways. There are many parts of the hero’s journey that are alike and different but the ordinary world, refusal, and test/allies/enemies part of the hero’s journey will be analyzed. The part of the hero’s journey that will be compared in this paragraph is the ordinary world which are similar and different in all stories. The first similarity in all stories about the ordinary world is that they are all facing their own problems in their ordinary worlds but all the problems are different. In hunger games in Katniss's ordinary world she is struggling from being poor and she barely has food for her family to eat. In the...
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...“The Odyssey” and the film “O Brother Where Art Thou?”, we can compare three basic subjects: characters, events, and the journey. Even though the characters in the book and film have some things in common; they are very different. In “The Odyssey” by Homer, Odysseus lied to his men for the sake of keeping them safe. While in “O Brother Where Art Thou?” Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Everett lied to Pete and Delmar so he could stop his wife from remarrying. Hence forth, Odysseus gives more of an honorable standing in the sense of loyalty to friends and family equally. While Everett seems more focused on his family. As the plots of the compared unfold, there are events that are alike. Odysseus dressed as an elderly beggar man to fool the suitors – so he could see his wife. Everett on the other hand, dresses as an elderly hobo – who is a part of a singing group to fool Homer and the suitor; so he could see his wife. Both of the men used elderly disguises to fool people in...
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...The Hero’s Journey has been used in cinemas ever since the beginning of films. Laurence Coupe states that the Hero’s Journey had a patter that “was threefold: departure, struggle and return – or, to use Campell's terms, 'call to adventure', 'crossing the threshold of adventure' and 'return with elixir', Every film uses those three parts; separation/departure, initiation, and return. These there sections are shown in two movies; Divergent, which was released in 2014, and The Princess Bride, which was released in 1987. The first section is known as the separation or departure. This is when the hero has a call to adventure, but they refuse the call. Later on in the story they accepts the call and cross the threshold with mentors and companions to help them along on their journey. Divergent follows each point of the separation/departure very closely. Beatrice has her call to adventure when she goes in to take her aptitude test on...
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...In the story Stealing South by Katherine Ayres, 16 year old abolitionist William Spencer is ready to gain independence from his parents and work the Underground Railroad disguised as a peddler. A peddler is a traveling merchant who loads up his wagon and brings his goods farm to farm, Girl Scout style. This job is reserved for men. His first “delivery” is of a young slave named Noah. After Noah arrives to the safety of Canada, he musters up enough courage to ask William to go back to Kentucky for his siblings, Noah and Suzanne. Excited to embark on his next adventure to save slaves and leave slave owners dumbfounded, William scurries deep into Kentucky. On his way to Kentucky, William finds himself dilly dallying in Cincinnati. When buying...
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...A Walk into the Forbidden Forest (A true story) By Jacob Conteh, Editor, Diaspora Dispatch News My heart jumped out of its cage. My greasy knees danced in disunity, my lips quivered, my mouth dried up and my hair rose to the top of the trees. My forehead dripped with sweat and my sweaty palms trembled. My eyes refused to blink, and my lips quivered. There, a few feet in front of me, sat a killer python coiled up to the size of a huge tractor tire with eyes pointing at us and tongue salivating with hunger. I motioned to my little brother Donald and pointed my fingers to the monster. We tiptoed backwards for a minutes, turned around and ran for our lives. My people, the Thaymnehs (Temnes), are a warrior tribe that reportedly emigrated from a region called Futa Jallon in present-day Guinea to Sierra Leone. My village, Patfu Mayawa, is a farming village of about 200 hundred inhabitants in central Sierra Leone. While most Thaymnehs are either Muslims or Christians, some Thaymnehs sometimes mix their religion with their traditional beliefs. Among those beliefs is that there are gods who dwell on forests and mountains. For the people of Patfu Mayawa, my hometown, they believe there are “devils” that dwell at Chainkafutu, a thick virgin forest hill that towers above the village. Before each of the many celebrations at Patfu that signaled girls’ and boys’ initiation to adulthood – the Poro for boys and Bondo for girls - the village headman would walk the half...
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...The Journey of Jeannette Walls When I was introduced to the novel "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls, it was intense but yet you could relate to it. Jeannette Walls had the braveness to write her personal life into novel form. Jeannette describes the times when she went through difficult struggles, the embarrassing and amazing moments. I will be telling you the main moments in the novel that Jeannette had gone through. “I was embarrassed by them, too, and ashamed of myself for wearing pearls and living on Park Avenue while my parents were busy keeping warm and finding something to eat. (4)” Jeanette lived in a fancy place and had everything. When Jeanette was going to an event, she saw her mother going through the garbage can in the streets of New York City. Right there, Jeannette felt like she had abandoned her mother. Jeanette was asking herself, “why haven’t I helped her?” After asking her mother how she could I help or what she should say if somebody asks me about you, Jeanette’s mother looks at her and told her to tell them the truth. But Jeanette felt embarrassed and ashamed to tell the truth....
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...Sukiasyan, Apet Period 3 9/30/14 Our Journey To Los Angeles The sun rises out of the ocean in California. For my family, Los Angeles is the best city in the United States. The weather here is perfect, during summer it’s really hot and it’s perfect weather for going to the beach. Spring is also really warm, although not as much. Spring and winter are my favorites because it’s neither too cold nor hot. There is warm sand along the shore of the ocean. My family moved to Los Angeles because we saw a better future, opportunities, and weather for ourselves. We were hoping to simply have a better lifestyle and be united. We’re somewhat in the middle of finding what we were looking for, but it is definitely improved since we moved here. Our journey towards here was really long. In 2000s my father moved to the U.S. from Armenia, where we all lived at the time. After that my brother, mother, and I moved to Russia where my grandparents used to live. Five years later my mom left to the United States. It took her a few times to get there because she had some difficulties with her documents. Unfortunately we had to stay in Russia because we also had the same issues as my mom. After my parents united together in Los Angeles, a year later my dad got deported back to Armenia because of immigration problems. For two years my mom lived alone in the States, while my brother and I lived with our grandparent and my dad. Finally, after about ten years of separations we all gathered together...
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