As a result, the narrator has limited knowledge on the events and the other characters and only depicts what happens based on what she observes: And there, squatting and screaming, is Godknows. The fact that the children go there frequently suggests that stealing for survival has become something very common, part of their everyday lives. The short story Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo is a first-person narration, an account of one of the child characters, a girl named Darling. The characters are six African children who have no other option to calm their hunger but to go to a neighbouring rich area (Budapest) and steal guava fruits. The action takes places in a poor African area (probably Zimbabwe) and shows through symbolical setting elements the crude reality of the gap between the rich and the poor. Denotative: to look quickly or briefly Connotative: if you. The short story explores the dehumanising effects of poverty through the setting and characters. Born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele in 1981, the year after Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe its first prime minister, Bulawayo has used her work to explore the importance of naming. HITTING BUDAPEST NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, born 12 October II. The author’s intention was to show the consequences of poverty experienced by African children and to bring a critique to those who turn a blind eye on the gap between the rich and the poor, hinting at the idea that it is Western states and organisations who bare most of the responsibility for it.

The main theme of the short story “Hitting Budapest” by NoViolet Bulawayo is poverty and its dehumanising effects, which is enhanced through the motif of the gap between the rich and the poor.