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Marais Van der Vyver, a white Afrikaner farmer and regional Party official, accidentally shoots and kills Lucas, a young Black farmhand, while the two are hunting a kudu buck together....
The title of the story alludes to the moment before Marais Van der Vyver shoots dead a Black farmworker, Lucas, who is also his son.
Such moments happened occasionally between Van der Vyver and Lucas, even though Van der Vyver more often ignored Lucas when they passed each other on the farm. Van der Vyver reflects that when the gun first fired, he assumed Lucas had simply fallen off the truck because he was startled.
Feb 29, 2024 · Apparently earlier that day, Van der Vyver had set off from his house at three in the afternoon to slaughter a Kudu from the farm, and as usual, he called his twenty-year-old farmer boy Lucas, to accompany him.
Throughout most of the story, it appears to readers that Van der Vyver, a white Afrikaner farmer, has killed a Black farmhand named Lucas during a game drive. Only in the last line of the story does Gordimer reveal that Lucas “was not the farmer’s boy; he was his son” (Paragraph 16).
Lucas is the young Black farmworker whom Marais Van der Vyver accidentally shoots and kills. Unbeknownst to the rest of the community, Lucas is actually Van der Vyver’s son.
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Oct 7, 1991 · The Moment Before the Gun Went Off Lyrics. Marais Van der Vyver shot one of his farm labourers, dead. An accident. T here are accidents with guns every day of the week: children playing a fatal...
