A Study Guide for Doris Lessing's "A Sunrise on the Veld"
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A Sunrise on the Veld
Doris Lessing
1951
Introduction
A Sunrise on the Veld
is a story by the distinguished British writer Doris Lessing. Lessing has been publishing fiction for over half a century and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. This is one of her earliest short stories, published in her first collection, This Was the Old Chief's Country, in 1951 in London and in 1952 in the United States. It was reprinted in African Stories in 1964 and The Doris Lessing Reader in 1989 and is currently in print in the reissue This Was the Old Chief's Country, volume 1 in Lessing's Collected African Stories.
The story is set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) sometime between the 1930s and 1950s, when the country was still a British colony. Lessing lived in Southern Rhodesia during her childhood and early adulthood, so the setting came naturally to her. The story covers just a few hours in the life of a fifteen-year-old Caucasian boy who gets up at four thirty in the morning to go hunting on the nearby veld (grasslands). He is full of life and energy, feeling as if he can control everything about his life. But his exuberance is curbed when he encounters a wounded buck that is being devoured by ants, and he is forced into a new, more mature understanding of life. With its rich sensory language that brings the setting to life, and with its careful development of the boy's new understanding, this coming-of-age story is an ideal introduction to one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century.
Author Biography
Lessing was born Doris May Taylor in Persia (present-day Iran) on October 22, 1919. Both her parents were British. In 1925, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, which was then a British colony. Her father, formerly a bank official, became a maize farmer. Doris was sent to a convent school and later a high school in Salisbury, the capital city, which was about one hundred miles from the family farm. However, she hated the convent and dropped out of the