Sum Sum Sum

Something Something Something Creepy Story

Richard Wiegel

04/17/11

eng125

David makhanlall

Ashford University

Forbidden love is an aspect in many love stories, large and small, many require this love to involve loving in private and often leading secret lives outside their ordinary one. Ms Nadine gordimer's country love is a perfect example of this trait. The main characters in this story, paulus and Thebedi share their secret love and the lying eventually drives them apart.
Paulus is a wealthy white farm boy living in south Africa, and at this time period it seems that white men are given the high life from birth.
“though most of the black children get some sort of schooling, they drop every year farther behind the grades passed by the white children; the childish vocabulary, the child'sexploration of the adventurous possibilities of dam, koppies, mealie lands, and veld—there comes a time when the white children have surpassed these with the vocabularyof boarding–school and the possibilities of inter–school sports matches and the kind ofadventures seen at the cinema. “(gordimer 1975)
Thebedi is not so lucky as she is a black girl at the beginning emerging as a woman by the end, she began as Pauluses child hood playmate, later the families servant.
While they were growing they met in secret and Paulus gave her gifts and she in return gave him gifts.
“The first Christmas holidays after he had gone to boarding–school he brought home for Thebedi a painted box he had made in his wood–work class. He had to give it to her secretly because he had nothing for the other children at the kraal. And she gave him, before he went back to school, a bracelet she had made of thin brass wire and the Grey–and–white beans of the castor–oil crop his father cultivated.”(Gordimer 1975)
This was the beginning of their forbidden love and as the story moved on their love grew deeper until they had a child, except at this point he had gone off to collage and he...