- Check books & vocab ... and there's lots of vocab.
- Themes for Moment Before the Gun Went Off & Keeping Fit
1. What is the nature of the relationship between the woman and the white man? Find evidence to support.
2. What happens literally and figuratively in their relationship and why?
3. When the protagonist returns home, what has changed about him and why?
4. What is his relationship like with his family and wife—has it changed?
5. Over what is he conflicted and why? Name them ALL.
6. What is the symbolism of the bird?
The BIG PICTURE: It's easy to see how the struggle between discrete races perpetuate division; however, in what specific way do the stories "Keeping Fit" and "What Were You Dreaming"/"Some Area Born to Sweet Delight"/"Moment Before the Gun Went Off" illustrate a deeper, more insidious (subtle) division among people of the same race and why? What exactly do these characters not understand about the situation in South Africa?
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