THE SILK SCARF BY AHMED ESSOP

SETTING

Time: day time

Place: Oriental plaza Johannesburg

MAIN CHARACTER

Mrs Nebo.

She was very rich.

She was a wife of an important official of the African front.

She lived in the white suburb of Houghton.

She was of medium of height.

PLOT

Mrs Nebo was a rich woman. She had a husband named Clive Nebo. One day Mrs  Nebo went to the oriental plaza for shopping with her friend Margret, and then  while she was  walking from shop to shop she saw a beautiful Indian dress and decided to buy it . She also decided to buy a silk scarf in order to match with the dress  although in the shop were she bought the dress there were scarfs   which she wanted , she went to other shop were she found the scarf she was looking for. When asked about its price she realized that she don not  have enough cash so she took out a cheque  and  gave it to the shopkeeper ,( mr  Sakur).The shopkeeper refused it because he did not have a rule of  accepting cheques in his shop. Mrs Nebo felt humiliated and started arguing with the shopkeeper , when the other shopkeepers heard about the argument  they  came to see what was happening and they convinced  mr  Sakur to give the scarf to mrs Nebo but he decided to stick to his rules. One of the shopkeepers , mr  Sader decided to give mr Sakur  cash  gave the scarf to mrs Nebo as a gift.