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Oppression. Many symbolic similarities in "Master Harold...and the boys and the boys" by Athol Fugard, and "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel

Date Submitted: 08/21/2004 16:40:28
Category: / Literature
Length: 5 pages (1325 words)
        In the two novels, Master Harold...and the boys and the boys, and Like Water for Chocolate, there are many symbolic similarities. In both books there are acts where individuals strongly oppressed, or discriminated against. Although the individuals are being oppressed for different reasons their emotions are shattered deeply. In Athol Fugard's book Master Harold and the boys, an older man is discriminated against by a younger child only because the older man is black …
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…discrimination. The difference between them were that after Sam protested, he was still treated the same, were as when Tita rebelled, she was set free. The ad thing about all this is that, Sam's example is what happens in the real world. Maybe people can learn from these novels and stop discriminating people because they were born in class were they are expected to do perform only certain roles in society, or obey certain people.
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