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Both ‘Veronica’ and ‘Country Lovers’ look at failed relationships, family and community. How do personal and cultural forces lead to the characters failed relationships
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Both 'Veronica' and 'Country Lovers' look at failed relationships, family and community. How do personal and cultural forces lead to the characters failed relationships? Refer closely to the text Relationships fail all the time and for many different reasons. Both 'Country Lovers' and 'Veronica' look at relationships in different cultures. "We had grown up together in my native village," this is the opening sentence in 'Veronica' describing the culture, the setting and the history between Veronica and the narrator Okeke; it shows their relationship and its beginning. Both of the stories are set in different cultures. 'Veronica' is set in Nigeria in the 1960s and 'Country Lovers' during the time of Apartheid in South Africa. Both of these periods of times affect the story and the culture of the characters in that story 'Country lovers' is based during Apartheid; the white colonists set up laws against the blacks who they thought...
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