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Sonny is an earnest, hard-working civil servant, an educator who once had a seemingly endless supply of concern and affection for those around him. He is attentive to his family's every need, despite the terrible shadow of apartheid. Gradually, though, Sonny bec ....

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.... the political endeavor that he is slowly beginning to dissipate from his commitment to his family. He emerges himself in a relationship with Hannah, a young woman working for a human-rights organization. “It was then that it began, that it was inescapable. Needing Hannah”(53). Sonny and Hannah share the same fierce drive to end apartheid. They are fighting the same battle. She is his understanding. With Hannah, Sonny feels “the ultimate joy of making love with someone who, too, is in the battle, for whom the people in the battle are her only family, her life, the happiness she understands”(67). Sonny's wife Aila cannot possibly gra ....