English - "July's People"

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: English – “July`S People” The novel covers on a white liberal South African family, which was forced to escape from Johannesburg to a native village of their black servant, July. The Smales family are hosted by July`s village for their survival as they depend on them for everything they need. July is the leader of his village and the Smales family appreciates July as a compassionate human being than the servant they thought he was. I will elaborate on the growth and evolution of Maureen and how it is traced in the novel, July`s people. The lives of the Smales family turned around as they shifted to be with July and his people because they symbolized the white society of colonialism in South Africa. The roles changed as their servant become their master since July provided for them in all they needed. The Smales family tightened their grip on their possessions and properties because they did not want to abandon their past denying every attempt economic balance. Maureen is depicted as the novel`s protagonist and the negative image of the white liberal who are not willing to face the reality. The author of the novel reiterates that July`s people could be seen as primarly and admonitory, its warning incorporated at every stage in the depiction of the alien roles thrust on its white protagonists forced to flee their threatened white city to the protection of their servant`s tiny village in the bush. To relegate to the past all the trappings of white invulnerability, to image them irretrievably destroyed, could be seen as the central intention of the novel. In the novel, Maureen looks ‘defeated’ though she was more active and well-abled before relocating to July`s native village after she fails to communicate with July by trying to convince him that they are both equal and that she has never been superior to him. Later on she runs for a helicopter to go back to the civilized world she was used planning on leaving her husban...