Compare “Nothing’s Changed” by Tatamkhulu Africa and “Two Scavengers on a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti As the name suggests Nothing's Changed is about the apartheid. A poor black man in district six, a poor area of South Africa, who is describing the area and his feelings and he says that nothing’s changed. It’s all the same even though they had black president Nelson Mandela who stopped the apartheid. It was still the same, all the buildings were covered in glass and there was a restaurant but it was only for the whites, The only place for the blacks was a cafe with white plastic chairs and tables. Two Scavengers in a truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes is about two classes brought together by a red light and the scavengers are looking down into the Mercedes then the poet describes the two beautiful people in the Mercedes to be rich and the two scavengers to be poor. The language the poet
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