Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Three days ago I was one of a small group of whites who had to get up and leave the table at the wedding reception of an African medical student; a white official of the gold-mining company for whom the bride’s father worked, and on whose property his house was, drove up to inform us that our invitations to the wedding were not sufficient to authorize our presence in living quarters provided for Africans. (p. 113)

The most likely reason Gordimer includes this event is to _____. Select all that apply.

A) illustrate that apartheid is unjust

B) show how apartheid laws protect blacks

C) show why interracial friendships are difficult to establish

D)provide a view of apartheid through the eyes of someone who has lived in it.

Answer 1

a to illustrate that apartheid is unjust

Answer 2

D)provide a view of apartheid through the eyes of someone who has lived in it.

The apartheid was a racial segregation system that existed in South Africa and Namibia up untill 1992, this created a hierarchy of races, white, asians, mixed, africans, much like in the states, black-african people couldnt enter the same places as white people, they couldn´t even walk in the same side of the sidewalks.