In both stories, the characters deal with an issue of racism in which one character faces it and the other causes it. In "Crackling Day," the narrator, a young black boy, is faced with hatred violence because of his ethic background. When the narrator went to the store to buy crackling for his mother, the storeowner made him beg and say, “Baas” because he was black. The narrator deals with both internal and external conflicts because he

Hopelessness is also an issue that appears in both stories more than once. In "Crackling Day,” the narrator feels a sense of hopelessness when he was attacked by all three boys and when he was forced to look down at the store. He was humiliated and he felt worthless because of how he was treated by the storeowner. The narrator deals with an internal conflict in which he felt ashamed of his ethic background and the person he is. Nkosikaas Jordan also deals with the same problem when she gets lost on the way to Chief Mshlanga’s village. Nkosikaas becomes confused and frightened because of the fact that she didn’t have the support of a gun or her dogs. She also felt as if she didn’t belong to the land and that old evil of the land way after her. At this point, Nkosikaas deals with an internal conflict were she is ensured of who she is and where she belongs. Nkosikaas becomes overwhelmed by her surrounds and on her way home from the village, she started to believe that she was a destroyer. She felt empty hearted and believed that she was a victim because she didn’t belong to the natives’ world or to her own kind.

In conclusion, although the narrator of "Crackling Day” and Nkosikaas where presented with different situations, they both where affected by racism, human rights, and a sense of hopele

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