What is point of view? How does point of view influence a story?
Discussion
1. Look at the contrasts present in the short story: What purpose do they serve and how do they reflect the divisive nature of apartheid? Use text to support ideas and interpretations. Think about all of the ways in which the white man and the black woman are divided.
- Road as boundary vs road as freedom
- house vs shanti town/shack
- white man vs black woman
- white family vs black family
- other ideas ....
2. From what point of view is this story told? How does that limit what we know? How might descriptions differ if from black woman's POV?
3. What is the relationship between the white man and the black woman? How does it change over the course of their interaction?
4. When the protagonist returns home, what has changed about him? Does he comes to any new understanding about himself? If so, why? Of not, why not? Use the text.
5. What is the main conflict in the protagonist's life? Over what is he conflicted?
6. The bird ... symbol of what?
Closing
Questions raised; insights gained?
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