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Why is the last barricade described as a concentration-camp style?

Why is the last barricade described as a concentration-camp style?

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The couple comments on the wall saying

It was the ugliest but the most honest in its suggestion of the pure concentration-camp style....

As the title implies, Gordimer frames this clique of South African apartheid in an allusive form that brings to mind many conventions of fairy tales. This wall juxtaposes any idea of a fairytale.