Doris Lessing - The Nuisance

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* What do yo feel, sense, smell, hear & see? *

I can''''t help feeling cantiness and warmth among the natives. I hear the echo of laughter surrounds the compound and rubs off on the other natives, and spreads joy. I see happy women that make the best out of the situation, even though their living-conditions are not the best. But I sense jelousy among the wives over there.


* Do you think she could have used other words? *

I dont feel any serenity in her writing. In some aspects it just feels like she writes down all these difficult words just to make it seem like she is writing something snugly and well-managed, and that is why some people might find her books very complicated and hard to read through.
Personally, no, I don’t think she should use other words.
She could try to use less difficult words, because that could ruin the whole story considering that you will stop reading just to find out what the words mean. But still, it depends on what kind of people her "target" is. Is it highly educated people or is it youths?
Some people would surely prefere that she used less describing words and synonyms, but that is a charming component of her writing, and makes her so distinctive.


* What’s the relationship between the races? *

Sydrhodesia, a town where Lessing grew up, was a racialistruled compound where the white people were higher situated than the working black people. This compound seemed to be dominated by the white people, and that I saw by the way she structured the story.
The relationships between these two races were barely something that we would accept in our modern lives. You could use the farther’s remark as an exampel when he said “he would have been on the stage if he had been born another colour”. This quote proves the fact that people with darker skin were less worthy than human beings with lighter skin. Another quote that made me react surprisingly strong in the racial-question was when she wrote that the father had said “he would never play the ape, as some Africans did, for our amusement”. This only shows that some black people submited to being the figure of fun for the white people’s graceless delight.


* What’s the relationship between her father & the Long One?*

The Long One was her fathers most proficient and useful driver and her father was very pleased with him. Her father respected him as the man he was. He thought that he was a resolute man who didn’t let anyone get away with anything under the sleeves.
If you ask me, I say that her father seemed to have a kind of peculiar relationship with The Long One considering that her father was a respected white man and the Long One, a simple black driver and handled oxen at a farm. He had been working for her father for a few years so their relationship did presumably grow in course of time.
They had a relationship where they could have open discussions with each other, man to man, particularly about The Long One’s wives. The Long One could even ask her father for favours.


* What did her fathers last remark mean? *

It feels like if The Long One knew that her father was aware of something that he wouldn’t be aware of, he would be lying in big trouble. I dont believe her father even wants to know anything about what happend, that is not his concern. I believe that he simply doesn''''t care about the accident that the cross-eyed woman suffered from, she is nothing more than a black native woman.
As long as he got his skillful driver firsthand with an unharassed mind, we won’t hear him complain.


* What’s your oppinion; good or bad story? *
- and why?

In the whole, the story was good and exciting.
After reading the first page, I was confounded, but when I kept reading the story over and over again I felt that the only reason I was confounded in the beginning was because I didn’t really understand what she was writing about, mostly as a result of the difficult and describing words she constantly used in the story. When you manage to learn the words and read the story again, you figure out what she wants us readers to know.
My true oppinion is that I enjoy those “difficult and describing words" she continuously used just because I will most likely use some of the words I''''ve learnt when I write. It’s words you are in need to learn, mainly to develop your writing-skills but also to have as “saving-lines” in your vocabulary.
These carefully picked words she use in her writing may help you build up the exact picture of the environment, people and the over all story in your mind. You see the story illustrated in your mind. It''''s almost like watching a movie, and it’s all thanks to those describing words, that a few people may find most disturbing.
Doris Lessing is surely multilateral in her way of writing, completely unlike the other authors, who can be very repetetive in their way of writing.


* After having read the story, do you think she deserve the noble price? *

I dont think you can tell if she is worthy a noble price or not after only have read one of her stories. You have to know a little bit more about her other books/short-stories such as the fifht child.
I was overwelmed when I heard that Lessing was awarded with the noble price, it was right on time! I thought their choice to award Lessing was very joyful and wished-for, at least for me.
This award makes Doris Lessing’s way to a well-deserved spot as a classic writer easier, and people will open up their eyes and maybe begin to look into her books.
After I have read this short-story you gave us I became more convinced that she is a worthy noble price-receiver.


* My oppinion about Doris Lessing *

I’ve read about Doris Lessing long before we got this task to write about her, and I was looking forward to it.
The thing about Lessing that really makes her so powerful in my eyes is that she keeps challenging the hidden “rules and standards” in writing. Not many female authors have the courage to write about things she wrote about.
I’ve read The fifth child by Doris Lessing and it was there I found her way of writing very fascinating, but even before that, I heard about her and have always wanted to read some of her work, and now I yea...