The story takes South-Africa is a setting of novel. South-Africa in during the time of novel full of a cornfrict between white people and black people. White people in South-Africa at that time were minority, so the Turnners that is a white family in the story can not join with the society of South-Africa. Someone calls them as "a poor white". "A poor white" is shown clearly about a separated classes in South-Africa at that time.