Discuss the way black people are treated by white people in the short story “Crackling Day” by Peter Abrahams’

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‘Discuss the way black people are treated by white people in the short story “Crackling Day” by Peter Abrahams’

“Crackling Day” by Peter Abrahams is set in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century.  In the country at this time, the blacks and the whites were separated.  They had different elevators in buildings, different beaches, buses, and shops.  Interracial relations, and marriages were illegal.  The whites owned much of the land, in fact 80% of it.  They owned the mines, and the cities.    The story is about 2 boys who travel all day to a farm to collect their weekly amount of crackling for their families.  The story is set in the country near a town called Elsburg.  This short story shows us how the blacks treated the whites, and how the blacks had to treat the whites.  

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        The story is called “Crackling Day” because it starts with two boys, Andries and Lee who are making ‘the long trek to Elsburg siding for the square of pig’s rind that passed for our daily meat’.  The boys had to collect a double amount of cow dung the day before, so that they could get the crackling.  This shows that the black people were poor, as they had to perform the jobs that the white people did not want to do, such as collect cow dung, just to get some pig rind.  This was there daily meat and it ...

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