The Silk Scarf by Ahmeb Essop

SETTING

Place : Oriental Plaza located in Forbsburg,Johannesburg

Time  :  During the apartheid government's Group Area Act

PLOT SUMMARY

Mrs vNebo together with her friend Margaret went for shopping at a ashopping centre where shops were  owned by Indians.They bought somwe shoes,some jewellery and then swimming costumes.Besides, Mrs Nebo saw a lovely Indian dress and decided to buy it.Nhevertheless, she  had no enough money to pay for it that she decided to pay by Cheque.Mr sakur, the owner of the shop refused that proporsal.Mrs  Nebo felt humiliated by that refusal and began to argue.Although Margarert and MrsNebo's bodyguards were trying to persuade Mr sakur,it didn't helped.When Mr Sader  whispered to others to come with him outside,he told themthat if the lady's husband was going to be important figure in the next government,insulting her fraud with danger.When they entered into the shop again.Mr Sader spoke to Mr Sakur in Gujurati  and told him of the danger of  offending the wife of an important politician.Mr Sakur remained adamant.Mr Sader then bought the Silk Scarf and gave it to Mrs nebo as a gift.

MAIN CHARACTER :Mrs Nebo

Mrs Nebo was of medium height,with ions,and smooth-skinned in coplexion.She was the wife of Clive Nebo,who had already been designated as the Foreign Affairs Minister in a new government to be established after the passing of the apartheid era.She had a friednd by the name Margaret,who is always loyal to her.She is very particular about wearing clothes whose colours blended harmoniously(matched).She felt humiliated when Mr Sakur refused to admit her  cheque in his shop.

Through the Tunnel by Dorris Lessing

1.SETTING

place : On the beach and in the sea in the foreign country

Time : During Summer season

2.PLOT SUMMARY

The story revolves around a young boy by the name Jerry,who had decided to swim through the tunnel as other big boys were doing.Besides his though,he didn't knew if he would do it.After he shows the boys he has the guts to jump off the rock, he wants to prove that he is man enough to swim through the tunnel in the rock as tey were doing. Although, those big boys were not able to communicate with Jerry due to language barrier,he decided to accomplish this feat to maintain his pride as man.Jerry knew at first, that he would not be able to swim throughout the tunnel without taking a breath of air, so he did exercises that overcomed this constraint.So,Jerry convinced his mother to buy him goggles, which he needed to see where the tunnel begins because without them he could not see very well.On the day before Jerry and his mother were leaving for home, Jerry decided that it was the time to show what he was made of, and swim through the tunnel. He put on his googles,fitted them tight,tested the vacuum and dived. At first he felt like an "inflated balloon", he could hold his breath forever, but as the tunnel became darker,he started to panic and lose his control. Jerry kept swimming and counting the seconds, until he came to a point with a darkness up ahead with an expoltion of green light and no more oxygen left in his system. He thought he was going to die. Eventually, Jerry saw a light in the distance, and he swam to the surface. Although his nose was bleeding, and he was in extreme pain, Jerry has proved to himself what he was capable of doing.Jerry swam to the shore  and climbed slowly up the path leeding to villa.

3. MAIN CHARACTER : Jerry

Jerry is an eleven-year old English boy,who went for vacation with his mother on a beach.Jerry's mother was a widow and she sometimes overprotective.Jerry  had attempted to make friends with some older boys who were on the beach.In an attempt to become equal to them, he begins to persistently practice holding his breath so that he too may swim through the rock. He was determined to be able to hold his breath for a sufficient time so he can accomplish this feat.Jerry was jealousy older boys who were swimming through the tunnel,something he could not do.

My experience in creating a blog

When I first heard of the  word blog, I was a bit confused because it was for the first time I was hearing it .When my lecturer explained it in detail,I came to understand that it was simply a website that functions like  facebook that I kew before.I search for the website on internet and I had started working on it.I had filled in the empty  spaces that were to be filled,and I went on to the following stages by clicking the word that was down below the page ''continue''.Procedures  were quite simple that it just took few minutes for me to overlap pages.I was deligthful when I sow the setence that read''you successfully creted your blog'' .I was eventually done with my blog.I found out that blog is a site were whoever feel like bored can go,and communicate to others by commenting on their status.According to my perspective point of view,blog is site to go for,since it is free.I thank  my English lecturer for advancing me.