Gordimer's Writings

                I really did not like the style of Gordimer’s writings because she had a particular style that she wrote in that was very stereotypical to me.  For example in the story “Amnesty”  there was a character that did not have a name because that person was to represents one side of the population as a whole such as all white men or all black men in the United States.  So not depending on who you where but what race, county, complexity, sex, religion, or language you were you were already given a back ground coming into the story. One important think that I did notice that the author did was set up the plot to the readers could find symbols in the story. The man in the story named the daughter Inkuleleko which means South African Independence when is a symbol that he is in control of the future.

          When reading “Six Feet of the Country” it really disgusted me. How the system does operate.  When the wrong person gets involved bad things may happen. This should not be the case. When you hear the word authority you do not think of disrespect, prejudice nor ignorant and this is exactly what came to my mind when reading this story. Statements such as “He had no identity anyways”, or “there are so many black faces, surely one will do”. What type of system or authority shows this type of disrespect? Maybe one where the writer is somewhat stereotypical in there writing. This is strictly my opinion though.  Only one side of the  black people where portrayed in the story, the country people being ignorant, backwards and, not dressing well. What about the country people with educations, dress well and own land? I think to make the story more interesting the author should of not only made a nameless character to represent one side of the population but all sides.