South African American Diary Entries

The rain pounds against the pavement, the periodic roar of thunder startles me and I am caught alone on an empty street that seems to go on forever. I’m shivering in the frigid, cool breeze. Mr. Reaper said he’d be awaiting me here. He says Miss Freyja, a goddess, is joining him today, and they will come in a chariot pulled by two giant cats. The cat’s names are Bygul and Trjegul, I am to treat them with the most respect. I’m just as excited as I am sad. You see my cat, who happens to be my best friend, died, and Mr. Reaper and Miss Freyja are about to determine her fate after death. I’ve also been waiting ages to meet Miss Freyja, I just wish I could have been under different circumstances. Grim Reaper talks about her often. I think he has a thing for her, you know. His eyes get all googly, and he non-stop smiles when her name is brought up.

So here's how it all started I was on a boat going to go hunt for game. Until the captain pointed out ship trap island in the distance. I heard 3 gun shots and ran to the rail to see what happened I dropped my pipe and tried to catch it but instead i plunged into the water. I swam with all my might to get to shore because the the water was freezing cold so i swam towards the shots because it meant shelter in my head then i fell asleep.I woke up and went to find some food I saw the remains of a dead animal and a rifle cartridge and some foot prints.

The light was as bright as the sun and I could feel my retinas burning. In the back i could hear a slight beeping sound almost like it was graphing my heart beat. I heard voices, “Scalpel.” “I’m going to make the first incision now....” And then nothing, the voices stopped and i was back in my own head. I was startled by a falling sensation, as i was thrown into an even colder room. The light in here was dimmer, but it was still blinding. I crawled over to giant metal door and punched it and screamed for them to let me out. I needed to finish my work, my whole reputation depended on it. In a few

I have changed so much these past weeks It’s crazy! Just at the ceremony I was a small town girl in a small colony. Then I got picked for the testing and It all changed. I can’t believe how tall I’ve become in just a few weeks and how mature I’ve become now. I am not very scared of blood anymore since all that time stitching up thomas and will.

I was a prisoner in his house because I wasn’t allowed to leave the house. The chains on my hand represents me being a prisoner in the house. After dark every night I would be all by myself scared. I was 15 years old at the time and Jamaica wasn’t a place that a 15 years old shouldn 't be all by their self at night. The place was always quiet and the yard was dark. I would turn on the TV 's, the light, and the radio. I was always afraid. I wasn’t allowed to watch television, so there was not much to do.. The only thing I could do was study nor sleep. In the cave I was trapped and could not leave.

I saw a bright light appear out from the darkness that I lay in. It startled me because I didn't know what was going to happen to me and my family. A large hand reached into this cold climate that was my home; and picked Emily (my sister) and I (Dylan) up and carried us into what felt like a desert. The large hand was connected to a large body, I later figured out that it was a human. I was sweating (unthawing) and I was missing my cold home so much. The human pulled Emily and I apart, took Emily, and placed her on a plate. I was next, the feeling of his wet, slimy hands was disgusting. Once I was on a plate, the human picked the plate up and took us both outside. It was like I was in a fire, it was scorching out here.

Author’s Thesis: Throughout the South African American women organized labor protests for various reasons such as higher wages, and better working conditions. They took matters into their own hands through physical and political means.

The rooms were confined to themselves by a large metal door with a small slot about 5 feet from the floor that could only be opened from the outside. The walls were once a brilliant white, but now filled with the scratch marks and blood stains from the ones before me. The room stench of urine, most likely from the other patients. All there was in the room was a small cot with a mattress so thin, it almost looked as if it was a thin piece of plywood. As I laid there strapped to my bed by leather restraints that were made to “protect” me from myself, I kept pondering on the question “what did I do to deserve to be locked up in a place like this?” Then I remember my crime, and smile.

I brung some supplies that keeps me from starvation and some pumpkin toys too keep me from being bored. Tonight i had a feast and i watched my pumpkipad. Their was lots of movies i can see their and so much games. I even made myself a sleepy slab from the twftwsratt and some sticks from the sleepy slab called tHE BED!!! It is so bad for humans too make names so it should name it the sleepy slab. My brother even agreed and admitted humans are bad namers for stuff. I slept at one o'clock pumpkin time which is seven o’clock human time. I had an horrible night and i had to be kept a awakening because the humans were looking for me eager to carve me with that long looking sharp sharpened horribly cold knife. It also gave me nightmares about the human carving me and everyone wanted to carve me with their knives and carved all off me away,then i woke up. I got so many nightmares that night i couldn’t bare it. I can’t let myself sleep so i ventured around the house. I found my brother having nightmares too so i carried him and into the twftwsratt which is my secret hideout and lived there forever and escaped into the ground and i dug a hole and made my new secret hideout. And me and my brother moved into my

After about ten minutes I finish milking the first cow and move onto the second I hear one of my fellow serfs named Rollo call out saying the vassal had left out bread for lunch. I leave the bucket behind and go grab a piece of bread and start eating it quickly, as soon as I finish the piece I bread I go to get water but because we had all been working so hard today the vassal brought us some ale to drink. One gulp, all I took of the ale and it was gone. Grinding the grains my last task of the day and I was so happy to be on my last task of the day I forgot about the other cows I had to milk. To grind the grains I had to take them to the mills, place them in the mill and use water to power it.

I open my eyes and the first thing I notice besides the fact that I’m not in my room was the giant pile of shattered glass. I look away from the pile of glass and see a large group of tents and at least ten campfires. Instinctively I get up and start walking towards the tents. All of a sudden a strangely dressed man appears in front of me in a puff of smoke. I fall on my butt out of sheer shock.

It was just a normal day like any other I was walking down my street and a group of us wanted to go camping, we got all our gear ready and went on, the first night was a little spooky, we were hearing strange sounds in the bushes near our campsite. In the morning we went to go see what was in the bushes nothing but unknown footprints.We were all debating on what the creature was, so the second night came by and then we heard the noise again all but Dave went outside the tents to see what was making that sound, we started shining flashlights until we heard a fast running sound away, all of were spooked out, in the morning we found out that Dave was not in his tent, we all thought he went to the bathroom but for a couple hours he still was not back.(153)

I haven’t spoken to anybody so when i was gathering the items I asked some people if they knew when the guards weren’t there as much. But they didn’t have an answer, except for one guy his name was Abraham but he wouldn’t tell me unless I let him in on the plan which was very risky because if he snitched I’d be executed but i had to take a shot. When we went to bed that night I stayed up preparing myself for what all is about to happen. I woke up Abraham and we started to sneak out of the house when a kapo came up from behind us and started to interrogate us about what we were doing, We had to think fast and Abraham grabbed him up and took him out, I was shocked that was the first up close death I had actually faced but there was no way I could turn back now we went out and towards the side where only one guard would be until the fence. We darted towards the side when Abraham jumped on me and threw me onto the ground and pointed toward the fence where 3 guards and a dog

I woke startled, dazed and confused basically drowning in my own sweat. Where on earth am I. I got up and spun around and all I could see was four blank walls that seemed like they were closing in on me. The only thing that stood out was a lone door placed right in the middle of one of the walls. Without even thinking about it, I started to carefully creep forward towards the door, but as I did this I could hear movement on the other side and the door began to open. I was lightning quick to react and rushed up to the wall right beside the door and nervously watched as a large figure began to enter the dimly lit room. He looked around and noticed the empty space and shouted out in surprise, but I was quick and without a second thought grabbed him and slammed his head against the wall, knocking him out cold.

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be considered inferior because of your race? The people of South Africa had to endure racial inferiority during the era of apartheid. The apartheid laws the government of South Africa made led to an unequal lifestyle for the blacks and produced opposition.