After reading about an American man teaching English in Uganda (http://mulkatime.blogspot.com/2012/01/two-worlds-collide.html), here are my answers to these questions:
1. What different points of view do we see in this story?
2. Explain the reasons behind the miscommunication that occurred between these two men.
1.
I found this story very interesting.
It's really unbelievable how two men who live next door are completely
strangers. They have a whole and different point of view of the life.
First we have the white man. He seems
to feel that he is so fortunate because he doesn't have to do black people
work. He maybe thinks that hard work is derogatory for him to do it. He clearly
doesn't know what poor people need to do to survive and, he obviously neither
understands that the black guy is not his enemy; he is just trying to find the
way to get some money for food. He probably thinks that white people is
superior to black ones.
Then we have the black man. He looks
like a hard worker man, someone who just wants to work in life; maybe because
it's the only way he knows to get the food. He probably thinks that because of
his lack of education and opportunities he doesn't deserve anything better than
working for white people. He seems to be a good person and very responsible
with his daughter.
2. I think the main reasons behind
the miscommunication between these two men are the ones that the author presented:
they are separated by class, by education, by language, and by culture.
Despite they nod to each other in
recognition when they see, they never really took the time to know each other
and their lives. It maybe happened because they weren't interested to do it or,
because they didn't feel they belong to the same place. If they had taken more
time to ask about each other rather than imagine about the other's thoughts,
their relationship probably would be another one.
