A quote from the story "Once Upon a Time" and has to connect the authors message to the current world
"The man and his wife, talking of the latest armed robbery in the suburb, were distracted by the sight of the little boy's pet cat effortlessly arriving over the seven-foot wall, descending first with a rapid bracing of extended forepaws down on the sheer vertical surface, and then a graceful launch, landing with swishing tail within the property."
Narrator
The cat’s adeptness in climbing the "seven-foot wall" disproves the wife’s line of reasoning concerning the prospect of deterring invaders by way of a towering wall. The cat augments Nadine Gordimer’s ideological objective of reproving the walls. If the cat can effortlessly ascent the wall, then it means that human beings, too, can formulate techniques to defy the loftiness of the wall. The walls are false security: they are symbols of ignorance and fear of the Other.
