Against the Grain

After our last story I have realized that many of our readings deal with people that, "Go against the grain." Or at least it is dealing with something about two different ends of a spectrum or society. In this story we see the aspects of tradition and religon come into play with the small South African villages that are portrayed in this story. The people are fighting colonization, fighting to keep their culture and religon, yet they seem to fight a loosing battle.  When I was reading this story I kept putting myself in a similar setting. I feel that if I was O-Dawg, I would be acting the same exact way. Just to use it as an example, if the US was taken over by a country in Europe or Asia and I was surrounded by people with more physical power over me, and watching my friends and family be made to conform to their ways and beliefs, I would not know how to deal with it or what I would do with myself. Would I be driven to take my own life because I could not bear to live out my life in a way that was not mine? Could any of you be able to just conform to something that was not yourself? I feel that I would find each day to be very unbearable. I would get up knowing that I would be doing things that I do not believe in and saying things I don't mean... ect. ect. I would also watch my friends and family doing the same thing, and I would feel that they were in the same pain I am in. This story really made me ponder on the past and what some people have done to other people, it really opened up a different view point for me.

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