Comprehension
Analysis
Interpretation
Author
The British Empire
100
Who is the main character?
What is Marais Van der Vyver
100
Is it a first-person or third-person narrator?
What is a third-person narrator
100
Is the narrator reliable or unreliable
What is an unreliable narrator
100
Who is the author
What is Nadine Gordimer
100
Was the British empire's flag different from the flag that England uses now?
yes it was
200
When and where does the story take place?
What is South Africa in the early 1990's
200
How are the characters described? Directly by the narrator or indirectly by their actions?
What is that they are both described directly and indirectly.
200
With who does the sympathy lie?
What is Van der Vyver and the black boy
200
Where is the author from?
What is South Africa
200
Is the place where the story takes place still under British control?
What is it is not
300
What happens in the story?
What is "An accident happens in a car where Van der Vyver accidently shoots a man who is out riding with him and that leads to a debate on if the murder was by accident or he meant to kill the man"
300
Is the ending open or closed?
What is a closed ending
300
What does Van der Vyver's character represent?
What is the inner conflict and moral blindness of white South Africans, internalized racism and division, the complexities of living under apartheid
300
Is the author still alive?
What is she passed in 2014
300
What did the British empire get from this place?
What is slaves
400
What is the name of the main characters father?
What is Willem Van der Vyver
400
What kind of language is used in the story?
What is the language is formal, while it isn’t overly academic or complex
400
What values and ideas are reflected in the text?
What is it reflects on apartheid, hypocrisy in terms of racial inequality and injustice and the invisibility of black South Africans
400
Has the author won a nobel prize?
What is yes she won the nobel prize literature
400
What is apartheid?
What is splitting the races apart
500
What is not a crime anymore?
What is blacks can sleep with whites
500
What are (some of) the themes of the text?
What is racial inequality, guilt and denial, human relationships, death and violence
500
What is the boy’s death a metaphor for?
What is the death of innocence, apartheids destruction of families, the price of racial inequality and wasted lives
500
How old where the author when they published their first book
What is 15 years old
500
When did the British empire get full control over the land in which the story takes place
What is 1806