Zoo city novel7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Zinzi shows her distaste for her surroundings“Gunfire has always been part of the nocturnal soundscape of Zoo City, like cicadas in the countryside. ![]() Modern African culture has a general background of violence and evil, an African setting such as Johannesburg is dirty, the scene where Zinzi takes shelter in a mall and looks to a Go-Go-Go travel agency sign, she begins to think about escaping to a cleaner and safer pace. Her criminal history is a reflection of Johannesburg, the desciption of the city is crime ridden and gives the author a feeling that there will be no “clean” characters in this novel. Zinzi is also instantly classified as a criminal because she has an animal, a sloth, attached to her at all times. Although she is labeled as “Junkie” and a drug addict, she has a unique power/ability of being able to find things that no one else can and has seemingly made an incredible recovery from her addiction, she is now trying to paypack her debts she acquired from her old lifestyle. Zoo city describes its protagonist Zinzi as a criminal who is very misunderstood. In the novel Zoo City the description of life of the main protagonist ,Zinzi, and the description of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa is a gritty and somewhat dark descrption, this is a very squalid and dangerous setting to begin the novel. ![]()
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