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The Ultimate SafariThe story is about a girl who is about nine or ten years old. She lives in a village situated along the South Africa and Mozambique village. She lives in the latter and her village is being...
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The Ultimate SafariThe author writes an epigraph before the story begins from a London travel advertisement that is trying to lure rich tourists to Africa for the "ultimate safari". Gordimer, the author,...
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The Ultimate SafariIf we look at the opening lines of the story, where the girl's mother went out to the store and went missing (Notice: "She never returned. Never."), we can begin to understand Nadine Gordimer's...
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The Ultimate SafariThe grandmother is the glue that holds the family together. She is the matriarch and refuses to let the lawlessness and chaos of the political setting dissolve her family as it is ruptured the...
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The Ultimate Safari"The Ultimate Safari" is narrated by a young girl of nine or ten, who is escaping with her grandparents from Mozambique, where her parents have both recently disappeared, to South Africa via the...
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The Ultimate SafariBeing a Native South African, Gordimer is mindful of the disparity within the concept of "safari." The idea of the "hunt" or "safari" in Africa has the connotation of wealthy individuals who hunt...
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The Ultimate SafariThe little girl in The Ultimate Safari often talks about going "away." When she talks about going away, or imagining another place, the reader gets the sense that she's not so interested in where...
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The Ultimate SafariThe grandmother and the narrator have different opinions about returning to Mozambique. Why is this?While she and her family are in the refugee camp, the narrator's grandmother is interviewed by a white journalist. She asks the old lady a number of questions about her current predicament,...
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The Ultimate SafariFrom a thematic point of view, it makes sense that the girl would express some level of hope in being able to return back to her village. If the girl did not articulate something that is...
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The Ultimate SafariIn The Ultimate Safari, the narrator and the group that she travels through Kruger Park with encounter a number of animals. One night (she didn't know which night it was because they were walking...
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The Ultimate SafariTo convert a long narrative--with a single narrative voice and no dialogue and written like a single point-of-view reminiscence--to dramatic form is to add setting and character description and...
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The Ultimate SafariThe grandmother and the narrator have different opinions about returning to Mozambique. Why is this?A possible reason for the difference in opinion about Mozambique might have to do with the generational gap between both. The narrator features less roots, less connection, and less experience to...
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The Ultimate SafariAlthough having the grandmother tell the story would still personalize the events and feelings of the story, it would not be as powerful because the daughter as narrator better reflects the themes...
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The Ultimate SafariThe marauding group of bandits that tore apart the narrator's village, kidnapped her mother and father, and threatened the stability of the family causes the Grandmother to want leave the village....
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The Ultimate SafariThere are a couple of ways to approach this question. If the idea was to assert the notion that crisis reveals the true nature of the individual, the grandmother would have to be the prime...
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The Ultimate SafariBefore the grandfather wandered off into the long grass, he was quickly becoming very weak. They had to lift him from stone to stone when they crossed a river. When he disappeared, the group looked...
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The Ultimate SafariI think the daughter reflects much of the prevailing common attitudes about the nature of the civil war which caused so much chaos in Mozambique during the 1980s. Initially, like most children,...
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The Ultimate SafariThis will be an assignment that has to be driven by your own sensibilities and perceptions of the short story and the characters within it. There is much to go from given the richness of...
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The Ultimate SafariIn The Ultimate Safari the little girl narrator and the group she travels with must traverse through Kruger Park. "He said we must move like animals among the animals, away from the roads, away...
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The Ultimate SafariThe family is in a condition consistent with those who are searching for shelter while seeking escape from persecution. Similar to those who escaped from concentration camps or who flee regimes of...
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The Ultimate SafariI think that we open the narrative with the narrator's mother being kidnapped, killed, or having gone missing. It is the mother's disappearance that triggers the family to leave their village and...