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This 5 page paper discusses the commonalities among several characters in the story, “A Walk in the Night” by South African writer Alex La Guma. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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us. This paper considers the common reality that knits together the characters in this story, as well as why and how Willieboy responds to Uncle Doughtys death, and what happens
to him. It argues that the common reality is a desire for violence. Discussion The first thing that has to be noted is that La Guma is a South African
writer, and so his work is full of words that are unfamiliar: "kaffir," "blerry skollies," "jong" and "kerel" for instance. Most of them can be inferred from the context, but
exact meanings are something missing. It also gives the story a very "exotic" feel for readers who have never encountered it before. The protagonist of the story is a young
mixed-race man named Michael Adonis, who, as the story opens, has been fired by his white boss over some trivial matter. Michael is already angry as the story begins: "He
looked right through them, refusing to see them, nursing a little growth of anger the way one caresses the beginnings of a toothache with the tip of the tongue" (La
Guma, 1962, p. 1). He continues to savor his anger - there is no other word for it - in the following paragraph, where we read that "his thoughts concentrated
upon the pustule of rage and humiliation that was continuing to ripen deep down within him" (La Guma, 1962, p. 1). Another character who is angry is Constable Raalt,
who has discovered his wife is having an affair and who is furiously angry about it. He even expresses his deepest wish: "Its enough to make a man commit murder
... Id ring her blood neck, but it is a sin to kill your wife" (La Guma, 1962, p. 38). But like Adonis, Raalt continues nurturing his anger; a few
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