Question

At the stroke of midnight, the gun went off​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The short story "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" by Nadine Gordimer is set in South Africa before the end of the apartheid policy. It tells of a white farmer named Marais Van der Vyver, whose rifle discharges accidentally and kills Lucas, a young black man, while they are out driving in the bush area around his farm.

The story is about people's reactions to the incident in relation to the political tension then present in the country, and it's also about what is really going on in the personal lives of those affected by this tragedy.