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Doris Lessing, 1915

Setting

• Time: 1931
• Place: South Africa / Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

Characters

• Major Carruthers
  • alone, good, has to work hard every day, proud -> doesn't want to confess this an go home, caring and helps Van Heerden, farmer, gentleman, changes his style -> lazy
• His wife
  • ill, married Major C. because of being a good soldier, can't cope with the situation, all day long in bed, wants to go home
• Van Heerden - Dutchman
  • good worker, has 9 children, really poor, treats the natives quite bad, 43 years old, strong arms and shoulders
• Wife of Van Heerden
  • Fat, ugly, 9 children
• Bossboy
  • good relationship with Major C.
• Workers
  • black, hate Van Heerden, have to built up the hut, one of them layed fire to a hut
• Children
  • at boarding school

Plot

• Exposition
  • description of the situation -> dutchman arrives
• Conflict / rising action
  • Major Carruther finds the family-> he decides to build a second hut. Van Heerden hits the workers
• Climax
  • the hut burns down, death of one child
• Resolution
  • Major Carruther decides to go back to England -> resignation

Themes

• racism in the colonies against the natives
• bad living conditions in the colonies
• immigration, isolation, search of identity
• critic against the colonizers

A second hut – Caught between cultures wurde eingetragen am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009 um 00:00 im Fach Englisch. Am Ende kannst du eine Antwort auf dieses Referat verfassen.