Question

Discuss the central idea of the poem 'once upon a time'

Answer 1

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The story basically covers:

1. The expectations of others who want writers (such as the narrator) to conform;

2. The very real danger from criminal elements on the streets of South Africa and how perception is very different from reality;

3.The expectation of violence in South Africa during Apartheid and the family's obsessive need to protect itself from the threat that cannot actually be identified;  

4. The fear of the unknown and the misguided personification of that fear as it becomes "the unemployed...the loafers and the tsotsis (hooligans)" or perhaps "the people of another color." 

Answer 2

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