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Summary Grade 12 English First Additional Language Short Story- Triumph in the face of adversity (8)
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This Summary is a well structured summary of the short story Triumph in the face of adversity. The Summary consists in the form of a mind map and explains what happens in the story, who all the characters are, what their personality trait marks are and also the main points in the short story and mo...

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  • May 19, 2024
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Title: Setting: Characters:

 The long list of incidents faced by the narrator, her mother and  Story takes place in South Africa, 1. Thulisile=
her family does not stop the narrator from reaching her goal of Johannesburg  The narrator
making her own money and improve her life and her sibling’s life  Then it developes to Phambili Squatter  The eldest of 3 children
camp where the family spends most of the  She does not cry much when her father dies
Themes: story  She cries more when here mother dies
2. Thembekile=
1. Prejudice/ Intolerance=
 Narrator’s mother
 Thulisile’s grandmother does not approve Mood:  Given rules by her mother-in-law when she marries
of her son marrying a girl from
 Sad; Jabulani
Johannesburg.
 She stays loyal to her marriage
2. Poverty=
 The narrator’s household also suffers
Triumph in the emotional
 Optimistic  She does not fight her husband back
3. MaDlamini=
when the father loses his job and cannot
provide food and other necessities
face of  Narrator’s grandmother
 She treats Thembekile like a slave in her household
 It is because of poverty that the
narrator’s family stays in the squatter
adversity 4. Jabulani=
 Narrator’s father
camp longer than it had been planned
5. Ntombi=
3. Unemployment=
 Narrator’s friend from the squatter camp
 Thulisile’s father loses his job and
struggles to find a new job 6. Bongani=
Summary:  Narrator’s younger brother
 It seems that most people in Phampili
Squater camp are also unemployed 7. Zanele=
 The story is about a young lady Thulisile who is the narrator.
 Gender based violence=  Narrator’s younger sister
 She appears at her mother’s graveside and a flashback of events
 The father finds an escape in liquor unfold 8. Nthabiseng=
 When he is drunk, he beats Thuli’s  She tells a sad story about her mother’s marriage to her father  Narrator’s friend from school
mother for no apparent reason. that was not approved by her paternal grandmother 9. Mr. Nkwane=
4. Child Abuse=  Her mother is treated like a slave and no matter how hard she  Narrator’s teacher
 When Bongani and Zanele are born, their works, the mother-in-law does not appreciate her. 10. Mme Sedike=
father beats them up for no reason  The suffering leads to the narrator’s family moving out of the  Old lady that advises Thuli to speak with a social worker
 Thuli works hard but her father steals her main house to a squatter camp or the police
money.  Unfortunately, the father loses his work and becomes abusive to 11. Mr. Rathebe=
 He goes to her employer and takes part the mother, the narrator and her siblings when he is drunk  Employes the narrator to do cleaning in the shop.
of her salary without her consent  The narrator works hard to change the situation around by selling
5. Fear= some sweets, getting help from friends and neighbors.
 Thembekile stays in constant fear from  She eventually gets employed as a Tv presenter and can afford to Tone:
when she is introduced to the family as a buy a house 1. A depressed tone=
young bride and later when she is abused  She only moves into that house later since her parents refuse to  Narrator uses tis tone at the beginning of the story and
by her husband sign for her throughout her mother’s ordeal and own experiences
 She fears even to protect her children  Her father dies and only the does her mother move in with her in 2. A defensive tone=
when their father beats them a proper house  Thembekile uses this tone when she defends her
 Sadly, her mother is to weak to survive and she dies husband’s behaviour

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