Chapter 3: Abahlali’s Narrative

Deceptively simple narrative structure without Myop’s thoughts to illustrate her change. It requires significant interpretation. “It was a rotted remains of a noose…Myop laid down her flowers. / And the summer was over” (¶8-9). “It was the rotted remains of a noose, a bit of shredding plowline, now blending benignly into the soil ... ................
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