Analysis short story

Essay analysis
The housemaids and gardeners who were not trusted change from being good to be bad people who are dangerous to the society. They leave their work places to hang about in the suburb. This is because they are no longer employed. Some importuned for a job: weeding or roof painting. They change because of dismissal from jobs without pay and fear for their lives which was due to the fact that buses were being burned, cars stoned, and schoolchildren shot by the police in around their working places that were those quarters out of sight and hearing of the suburb. Although the riots were suppressed, there were many theft incidences in the in the suburb and somebody's trusted housemaid was tied up and shut in a cupboard by thieves while she was in charge of her employers' house.
The change in character of these gardeners and the house maids who were not trusted teaches us that some people in the society will only be faithful in conducive conditions i.e. an environment that favors them and will not be ready to suffer defending others or at the expense of other people. Some of the messages or themes of this short story shall be discussed as follows. Violence and lawlessness is the main theme in this short story. It is clear from the passages that people in this set up are living in fear for their lives to an extent that even their dreams reflect the actual state of their thoughts. The writer says that he heard a sound which was a creaking of the kind of the foot steps of a person walking along a wooden floor. This made the writer to start thinking about his inadequacies like when he thinks that he has no burglar bars, no gun under the pillow, but I have the same fears as people who do take these precautions, and my window panes are thin as rime, could shatter like a wineglass.
The kind of security found in the homes in the suburbs tells a lot about the caution taken by the residents here. The presence of the police, soldiers, tear gas and guns on the stree...