If by South Africa you are referring to the Republic of South Africa, then their transition to Democracy was a bit rocky. It was a part of the British empire before they gained their independence as a free republic. This free republic however was not a democratic one due to things like apartheid rules where a minority of rich people who were mostly white controlled the government at the expense of the local African majority. As the fight for democracy continued many things started coming up like huge unemployment and infringement of human rights. Apartheid ended and currently the country is a democracy with suffrage, but there is evidence of high corruption among the government employees and the administration. Expand those ideas into an entire essay.
Jewish were forced to wear a yellow star to be identified by everyone at certain times in certain countries.
<span>The narrator recognizes that
war is cruel, unjust, and inescapable. </span>
<span>The narrator asserts that walking away
from war would only mean war would follow you home and attack your home.
Earnest Hemingway served with the Red Cross during World War I and was injured
by Austrian mortar fire while carrying out his duties. After World War I, he
served as a war correspondent for other conflicts that broke out in Europe. His
grandson said of his reporting on war that Hemingway "told the public
about every facet of the war--especially, and most important, its effects on
the common man, woman, and child." Hemingway's book, </span><em>Farewell to Arms</em>, was
written in that way also, not glorifying war but dealing with its realities.
That's the sort of tone revealed by the narrator in the passage quoted here
also.