Mirror Miglactic

By Asanda Maki

Professor Vodka

I would like to congratulate you in writing an interesting profile. When I was reading the profile you wrote about Sivuyisiwe Bridgette Ngcaba I was impressed. I have to say I like your writing style and I would also say you fitted exactly to the narrative style of many narrative scholars. In your profile article you are simple and clear about your interviewee. You followed exactly Todorov’s model of narrative by giving us an initial equilibrium- where you told us about the setting of the interview, description of your interviewee and then you told us about how Sivuyiswe grew up. Disruption- where Sivuyisiwe’s mother was strict. And finally the new equilibrium about whom the new Sivuyisiwe is at Rhodes and how she’s performing academically. You made a good analysis on Vladimir Propp’s narrative structure about the family member who is Sivuyisiwe leaving home and becoming a hero at Rhodes but her enemy villain which is excessive party and drinking is after her in destructing her life. You had a good flow in this profile the start, middle and end; nice picture too. Her mother as a helper and donor, and Rhodes as her dispatcher. It is a good profile indeed.

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