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Six Feet of the Country

TSW learn the plot setting, characterization, and the evolution of a character in the story “ Six Feet of the Country ” by analyzing pages and identifying a particular character and answering the open-ended question.

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Six Feet of the Country

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  1. TSW learn the plot setting, characterization, and the evolution of a character in the story “Six Feet of the Country” by analyzing pages and identifying a particular character and answering the open-ended question. Focus: Read pages 1321-1323 and answer the following question:Which character was effected the most in the conflict of this story, and why?

  2. Six Feet of the Country By: Nadine Gordimer

  3. The narrator bought a farm ten miles out of Johannesburg. Him and his wife struggled between the sharing of responsibilities to take care of the farm, and somehow trying to pull their marriage together.

  4. The narrator feels that the country life is safe and the city life is dangerous and he accepts that the country life will be good for him.

  5. The narrator receives a call from the farmhand informing him about Petrus’s brothers death.

  6. Petrus sends Albert to go spread the news of the dead body. When everyone gathers around the dead body, Petrus identifies him as his younger brother.

  7. Petrus tells everyone that his brother came from Rhodesia to look for work in Johannesburg but he became illand eventually died. Petrus kept it a secret because Rhodesian natives were not allowed to enter the Union. Petrus refused to get in trouble and it cost him his brother’s life.

  8. The authorities questioned the narrator about how he was an illegal immigrant, his death, and the circumstances. He had to face the authorities and he wasn’t happy about it, but he wanted to know the cause of Petrus’s brothers death.

  9. Petrus’s brother’s body was taken away because the narrator had difficulty answering the authorities' questions about the body. Petrus insisted the narrator to get his brother’s body back.

  10. The narrator could get the body back, but he had to pay 20 pounds for the exhumation process. He was hesitant because he could have spent the same amount on the boy’s treatment if he was alive. He felt but 20 pounds for a dead body was too much, and he told Petrus, but was shocked when Petrus was ready to pay the money.

  11. Petrus got 20 pounds from all the farmhands while the narrator was irritated and didn’t understand why people would spend 20 precious pounds for a dead body.

  12. The old father of Rhodesia led the funeral but he wasn’t ready to carry the coffin because it seemed heavier than his son. He wanted to open the coffin but didn’t have the courage to.

  13. When it was finally opened, the father the father didn’t recognize the face and figured it was the body of an unknown native. The narrator was mad and shocked that he was deceived by the authorities in spite of arguing with them for the body back.

  14. The narrator tried to get the actual body back but all his efforts were useless and gradually everyone lost hope. The authorities wouldn’t give up the body to anyone.

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