Dance With A Poor Man''s Daughter
(Pamela Jooste)
The book takes a look at an eleven year old girl''s perspective of the Apartheid system of South Africa. It is the girl''s innocence that gives the book character. Lily Daniels is a colored girl living during apartheid and she faces the haunting fact that her home in the heart of Cape Town will soon be diminished due to the Group Areas Act. The book takes a look at the colored culture and practices in Cape Town. The simple language used in the book makes it an easy read and allows the reader to become emotionally attached to the naive Lily Daniels. The book takes a look at the struggles faced by many non-whites that lived during the apartheid years. Lily lives with her grandmother and Aunt Stella as her mother has ran away in search for a better life for herself. The book also touches on the severity of the gangster life lived by Lily?s cousin Domingo. After Lily?s mother returns to district six, she becomes an activist by rebelling against the laws of apartheid. The relationship between Lily and her mother becomes hard on Lily?s side as she still feels dishearten by her mother?s decision when she left without saying goodbye. The book sheds light onto the warm Cape-Malay culture that was rife before the forced removals. The book is intensely moving yet true and tough in every sense, shedding light onto the reality of the time. At the end, Lily is separated from her family and send to London as the circumstances of South Africa provides little opportunity for a colored girl. In essence, the book touches on the tough life of a young girl who is exposed to a life where she is taught to be inferior to people with a lighter complexion. The book highlights the unethical ways that once governed South Africa and proves that no matter the age, discrimination is felt by everybody.
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