How do the lyrics represent the theme of racial prejudice? “The Train from Rhodesia” written by Nadine Gordimer and “The Golden Cadillac” written by Mildred Taylor both represent the theme of racial prejudice in their stories. Prejudice is when you judge someone before you know them. "The Train from Rhodesia" is set in South Africa, during the times of apartheid, when a train full of white citizens arrives at a railway station and a black man barters to sell his symbolic lion. The man of the young white couple waits for the train to leave before deciding the price he wants to pay for the lion, then he throws the money out the window and the young white woman doesn't want it. 'The Golden Cadillac' is about a man black man who buys a car, the Gold Cadillac, the family likes it except the mother, after a while the father wants to go visit his parents in Mississippi, which is in the south. They are caught by the police and fined. This is part of the Jim Crow South Laws, laws that aimed to separate blacks in the northern United States from the southern United States. They were enacted between 1876 and 1965. 'The train from Rhodesia'The very first paragraph is about the train entering the station, the train symbolizes the segregation of the whites on the train and the blacks outside the train. “The train came out of the red horizon and rushed towards them,” the word 'hole' implies the momentum and power of the train and the people inside towards the blacks outside. Apartheid is shown by the setting of the outside of the train versus the inside of the train "the station master's wife was walking with some barefoot children" which implies that they have little, and also... half of paper... in hand and I could clearly see message inside it. “The Train from Rhodesia” was harder because it took me longer to get it right. "The Golden Cadillac" also showed racism and racial prejudice better because the policemen, who were white, fined the family because they were black and judged them to be prejudiced for stealing the car, while "The Train from Rhodesia" had little explicit examples of racism. In "The Train from Rhodesia" I had some understanding but I had to keep reading to understand it properly. The only sign of racism he had was "he took out the shilling and the sixpence and threw them out". The gold Cadillac had two explicit examples being the signs that said "WHITE ONLY, COLORED NOT ALLOWED.", and the other was the encounter with the “white” police. Overall I thought "The Gold Cadillac", by Mildred Taylor, was better.