In the process of the little white girl s initiation,her parents,the old chief Mshlanga and the spirits in Nature serve the function of pilots that helps her to become mature and leads her to realize the white colonists exploitation of the black na- tives.
在小姑娘的成长过程中,其父母、老酋长姆什郎卡和自然神灵起到了或反面或正面引路人的作用,对她逐渐走向成熟、认清白人殖民者对非洲黑人赤裸裸的剥削这一事实起到深远影响。