The short story Dukwane's Deliverance is from 2010, written by Neil Ramsorrun. The short story is about a young black man, around the 18 years maybe a few years more, who gets accepted to King's College, Cambridge University, and he is living in London. Dukwane wants to study then get involve with politics, just like Barack Obama. One night his whole life changed, he gets stabbed by a gang, with a knife, and that result in that he would never walk again. His friend, Jermaine, comes up with the idea to get revenge on the people who did this to him, and Dukwane thought it was tempting, he was so angry at them, but he knew it was wrong. He had some sort of a hallucination, and imagined that he was talking with Obama himself. That made him realize that just because he can't walk, doesn't it mean that he can't follow his dreams. The main theme in the text is to never give up on your dreams, even when there is something in the way.

The short story happens over short time, over a few days I would believe. The story starts to be at his home, where he gets the letter from King's college, then at his work, and when he gets off his job, he works home in the dark but had to drop by the grocery store and that is where he meet the gang, saves the boy and gets stabbed. He wakes up at the hospital and that is where the story ends. It starts out with him being happy about being accepted into uni, and his mood drops the longer you get into the story, but it ends with him being determined to go to uni, even through he can't walk. He gets a whole different self-esteem, and he is ready to be a successful politician.

Dukwane is a young black man, who gets accepted into King's College, so he must be around the 18 years, “he spotted it on the kitchen table: a crisp white envelope marked with the official stamp of Kings College, Cambridge University... “Screw that, I got in” He hugged his mother..(p. 9, l. 10-16)” He got a big passion for politics, he wants to be the next black president, which he strongly believes in “...“Then you better get used to the taste of that. If Barack can do it, so can I.”(p. 9, l. 23)”. His father is kinda sceptical about his sons future, he might not believe in Dukwane's dream as much as a parent should. The mother on the other hand is very supporting and proud of her son, the father doesn't tell that he is proud of him, but the mother does and that can tell us that the mother believes and is more proud of her son than the father, “His mother came in, wooden spoon in hand. “Well done darling, you know we're proud of you..”(p. 10, l. 32)”
Dukwane works at the Holy Fried Chicken, and he is counting all of the shifts and months, he has left until he goes to uni, “..“Three months till un, six shifts a week, only 72 shifts to go. (p. 10, l. 41)”. This gives us an idea on how he likes his job. He is counting the days he have left, which normally we do to make the time past faster, even through it time doesn't go faster, or maybe he counts the shifts he has back because he can't wait to get to uni and away from the life he has now, away from the job he has. On side 10 line 37-38 he tell that he isn't part of that life he wants, but he will be, someday. Maybe he is in the middle class or under, but because of his goals in life, he would get there someday.
Dukwane's friend asked Dukwane if he wasn't afraid not to fit in because he was going to go to uni with white, rich people, Dukwane explained that he was determined to be as good as any of the other students there, even if they were rich and he wasn't.
When he was at the hospital after he had been stabbed, he couldn't walk and would never be able to ever again, and that made him give up his dream to become a politician. He felt like he would fit in even less than he would before, he felt like he had let himself and his family down, and he was feeling angry on those people who had stabbed him and on the boy who just ran of after Dukwane saved him. On page 12 Dukwane hallucinate that Obama is sitting next to him, where Obama basically were telling Dukwane not to give up, because he was believing in him. In that scene Dukwane open ups his eyes and sees that even through he would never be able to walk again, he shouldn't give up his dream, and he was still going to be a great, powerful man.

The point of view is third person limited point of view, and that means that the narrotor knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, in this case Dukwane, while other characters are presented only externally.1