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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1899
Page
10
An atmospheric mood section from Sadie Shreiner's The Story of an African Farm set at night on a South African homestead. A Boer woman sleeps, a Boer child awakens to moonlit plots, and in daylight the scene shifts to a stark, arid farmstead where a grim sacrifice looms over the wavering lives of the household and workers.
An unnamed boy in a harsh South African setting wrestles with a heavy burden of guilt and faith. He builds an improvised altar under the kopje prays for divine intervention then faces inner conflict about God and Jesus Christ. The narrative traces his solitary spiritual struggle and brutal loneliness.
Fragmentary OCR describes a long drought year of 1962 strewing scarcity across land. Livestock suffer, water fails, fields parched as the weather bleaches the horizon and hope diminishes.
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