Limitation effect people’s life

Ama Ata Aidoo’s short story Certain Winds From The South starts with narrator’s explanation of the main character's condition, M'ma Asana. M’ma Asana explained by the narrator as a woman who has no capability of catching further issues happens in her life “...thinking this misting of her eyes was due to the chill in the air.” Knowing that something is wrong with her eyes, M’ma Asana didn’t choose the path to do further discover of her problem, she rather to let the issue, that related with her own body, to be forgotten.

The mist itself reflects a thing that covering M’ma Asana’s view and limits M’ma Asana to be unable to see her problems and her world clearly. While she realises that she is unable to do any thing as an effect of the limit, she keeps eating cola-nuts, which able to reduce hunger and fatigue and be an anti-depressant. Its irony how she keep eating cola-nuts as if she already know how poor her life and the destiny will never be changed.

M’ma Asana knows kraal limits all villagers from south, the unknown world that takes her son-in-law and her husband for gone and never be back for more than 20 years.

. Without having desire to step accross kraal, the boundary between north and south, M’ma Asana let herself alone to raise her daughter. “But there is only one death and only one pain..” villagers seems to be limited to have children by the fear of dying and the pain of pregnancy.

The limit makes a boundary as it sees clearly between north and south. Boundary is a real or imagined line that marks the limits or edges of something and separates it from other things or places; a dividing line (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary). With or without people’s realisation, boundary will always occur every where. One example...

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...alking through the kraal to see how is south, the other world, where the wind keep blowing from there. Similar with how Charlene thinks her status as a mistrees limits her to have another relationship with another man. She didn’t choose her path to have a relationship with Mark, Hilda’s cousin from Brooklyn, whom he is a banker.

Charlene’s habit, as told by narrator, to wear Phi beta Kappa key around her neck on a cheap gold chain is contrast with her reality, which also as told by the narrator, she is a secretary for Karma-Kola. As a matter of fact, all her minds, her words and even her to-do-list was all controlled by the narrator. She is a prisioner by the limitation. She never choose the way to be different, to be more than how narrator told her to.

The cause is boundary. People often being impresoned by their ownself, as an effect of their never growing minds.