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Valley Song Summary & Study Guide Description
Valley Song Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
This detailed literature summary also contains Further Reading on Valley Song by Athol Fugard.
Valley Song Plot Summary
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Valley Song opens with The Author, a white man in his sixties representing Fugard himself, showing the audience a handful of "genuine Karoo pumpkin seeds," describing the beauty and richness of the land in the Sneeuberg Mountains of South Africa's great Karoo region, and inviting the onlookers to imagine Abraam Jonkers, a "coloured" (mixedrace) tenant farmer now in his seventies, planting the seeds in the fresh spring earth just after a rain. The images in The Author's opening monologue— seeds, earth, rain, mountains and valleys—are important not only to the setting of Valley Song, but to the personalities of the characters and the larger themes at work in the play.
As The Author talks, he turns into Abraam Jonkers, known to everyone in the village of Nieu- Bethesda as "old Buks." Old Buks has lived in the village his entire life, working as a tenant farmer on the...
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