Complete 5 page APA formatted essay: Burger's Daughter By Gordimer, Nadine.Download file to see previous pages... She wants to be Rosa Burger instead of Burger’s daughter. The incidents, which drag

Complete 5 page APA formatted essay: Burger's Daughter By Gordimer, Nadine.

She wants to be Rosa Burger instead of Burger’s daughter. The incidents, which drag her to the realization, are well depicted by the author in this novel. Being the daughter of two communist revolutionaries, even her personal life is affected by the then politics. Rosa’s mother is a pure revolutionary, solid in the visage of personal tragedies, a perfect match for her communist father. As a girl she remembers “A mouth that has learned to give nothing away when speaking. whose smile comes from the confidence not of attraction but of conviction “(82). Her home lacks the familiar pleasures of a house where principles conquer the common opinion. Conrad once tells her” … being bought up in a house like your father’s is growing up in a devout family…it was all taken in with your breakfast cornflakes” (50). Rosa slowly builds up devotion to her father and to the communist movement. Even her ‘lover’ in jail considers her as a means of information. The unforeseen requirements which are to be carried out as part of her devotion are more than expected. When wants to deliver a message to Noel in prison, (68) she has to act as his fiance in order to fool the police. She takes more steps ahead in bringing out her task. Thus, her life ‘must fit in with the twice-monthly visits to the prison” (62) since her father is in jail. ...

She become conscious s that she could alter the man and his family lives, turn them over to official control and recording , stop the brutality of the moment’ I could have stood between them and suffering –the suffering of the donkey “ But no…… I drove on because the horrible drunken was black, poor and brutalized. He is worried about the suffering in front of her eyes” I didn’t do anything. I let him beat the donkey…the man was black. So a kind of vanity counted for more than feeling….I have been free, I’m free to become one (210). Thus he justifies the reason for leaving. “I don’t know how to live in Lionel’s country” (210). Thus, Rosa comes to doubt the capacity of the people to escape the racial bound paradigms. In this current of events, she does not get time to pause to think about her own policy in life. She is dragged by such an influential flow and was taken to the depth before her knowing what happened or what is happening. The fact that she is the daughter of Burger (63) determines everything in her life. That seems to be so natural because without her identifying the real source of events they played vital role in her life. Her identity was that of her parents. She does not reveal her stand about the Apartheid, but her father’s identity was enough for her to be predestined. Rosa bears the inconvenience of being Burger’s daughter throughout her life. A rode to employment and even to travel for a personal cause is restricted to her because of her heritage. Even her love affairs are looked upon through the same suspecting eyes. Her relation with Marcus, a Swedish film maker, who has come to make a film about Lionel, is also alien. It was the nearest he would ever get to the barricades” (65).