THE SILK SCARF

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Place: Oriental Plaza in Johannesburg

Time: During the apartheid era

Plot

The story all began with a rich woman named Mrs Nebo, a wife of a Foreign Affairs Minister. She had expensive cars that were chauffeur driven. One day, she and her friend Margaret went for a shopping at the Oriental plaza in Johannesburg. Her friend bought shoes and jewellery. She only bought an Indian dress plus a swimming costume. The dress was very good but would look more beautiful if it had a scarf. they had to look for a scarf in the shopping plaza. they searched and searched for long, until they finally found one. Mrs Nebo was going to buy it by cheque but the shop never acepted cheques but cash only. They tried persuading the owner of the shop but he could not accept. Then Margaret tried explaining who Mrs Nebo was but still the shop owner did not agree. Neither didn't care who the lady was. Mrs Nebo really felt offended until all the other traders in the plaza that were present at the scene realised it. The traders tried to make the Indian seller to accept the cheque but still he couldn't. They also tried telling him the possible results of denying the lady's cheque but hi still insited not accept. Finnally. the traders came up with a solution of buying the scarf and giving it to the lady as gift. An the conflict was solved. Mrs Nebo left the man with strong words of how they will treat such people who treat thier customers in that way.

Main character

Mrs Nebo

• A very rich woman.
• The wife of an important official.
• Was driven by a chaffeur.
• She wore expensive clothes and jewelery
• She was fat.
• Had a friend named Margaret.
• Had a very big bank account full of money 
• She was very honest

Mr. Sakur


He was a shopkeeper in the Oriental Plaza. He was also a very stubborn man. He could put his foot down and nobody can change his mind. If he set a rule, nobody was an exception to it. Even knowing that Mrs Nebo was a wife of an important man, he would not budge. He was also not easily intimidated by anyone.He is an Indian businessman.

Through the tunnel : setting

The story is set in an  place during morning time, in the two beaches, namely the wild and rocky beach and the safe beach .  Jerry and his mother are both English and travel to vacation. 

Through the tunnel :main character

Jerry

Jerry is an eleven-year old English boy on vacation with his mother on a beach they have frequented in the past. Jerry's mother is a widow and is sometimes overprotective, sometimes not protective enough, of her son. Jerry attempts to make friends with some older boys on the beach, but they ignore him after discovering he is childish. Jerry is jealous of the older boys-he watches them as they swim through a rock in which there is a narrow underwater tunnel. In an attempt to become equal to them, he begins to persistently practice holding his breath so that he too may swim through the rock. He is determined to be able to hold his breath for a sufficient time so he can accomplish this feat. For Jerry, without a father and rapidly approaching adulthood, this challenge represents his coming of age, and with his success also comes independence from...

Jerry's mother
She is a widow, does not want to be possessive nor lacking devotion. Jerry's  mother loves him very much that she wouldn't want anything bad happening to him, thats  why she had an inner conflict of wether she should let him go to the "unsafe beach" or not

Through the tunnel : plot

The story's eleven-year-old protagonist, Jerry, is caught in the difficult position of being neither a child nor an adult. On a winter holiday with his mother in a foreign country, he encounters some older boys swimming. When they disappear by swimming through a tunnel to the other side of a large rock in the ocean, he feels left out and rejected. Jerry makes it his goal to find the tunnel and swim through it, even though it means staying underwater so long that he could drown. By achieving this goal, he attains a form of independence from his mother . His mother was worried but allowed him to go. When he went there, there were some boys that spoke a different language. One of the boys waved at him but when they figuered out that he was a foreigner they continued doing their own things. He then wen into the water and swum with the other boys. Deep in the in eater of the Wild and rocky bay water, there was a deep hole which Jerry really wanted to see, so he swumed trying to get into the hole because it was not easy. As he went into the hole, he got stuck and he tried getting out. With the struggle had, he was injured and he cried all alone where no one could see him. He went back to the beach were his mother was and he never told his mother about what happened on that beach becuase he knew  she will be very angry with him.

Exprience on blogger

 Creating a blog was not challenging to me. Every step was quite good till the step where you have to get the code. The first number which i gave in order to get the code wasn't working then i change it . That's the only step that delayed my blog Creation .I was very excited to creat my blog account, even though there were some difficulties;I managed to finish. I didn't have a google account so i created one first. Secondly, I googled blogger to creat the account. The next page asked for my details including my cellphone number, I received a call for the varification code and I verified it. I went to the third stage of creating my account, "name blog" where I wrote the blog title, blog address and I clicked continue . After that, I chose a starter template which is the display of my posts and I clicked continue. I was then told that many blog has been created. I came to this last step where I have to post "my experience Apart from that every thing went well and I started helping my friends to create theirs.