Independent Reading Two

In my independent reading book, Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, I have noticed jarring differences in the Afrikaners settlers culture compared to ours. Firstly, even though throughout this book the author's family considers themselves poor, they always have servants and hired-hands for the farm. They also seem more calloused towards observing people suffering. In our society, we organized fundraisers and raise awareness for these causes. In this book, they seem indifferent to these types of things. The pictures of bloated bellied, half naked children we see in commercials, that beg for donations, are the same children that are neighbors to the Afrikaners. The people living in their backyards are these struggling people that, in America, we reference to when some bratty four year old refuses to finish their drive-thru dinner.