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Contents:
Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The Author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Romans im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Additional Material
Component 1: Getting Organized: Reading tasks - Context test - First lesson
Component 2: A Perfectly Normal Childhood? Marnus, his parents and Frikkie - Marnus introduces Ilse: steps towards characterization - Language and Cultural Awareness: comparing school systems and defining differences
Component 3: This Is Our Place - Views of South Africa: "This is our place": General Erasmus's view of South Africa - Mum says that's exactly the way the coloureds are - The talks with the General from Pinochet's Chile
Component 4: Leonore Erasmus's Role: Leonore Erasmus: a happy wife and mother? - Ilse's secret letter to Tannie Karla in London - Exploring a wordfield
Component 5: Marnus's Development - The Novel as an Initiation Story: Growing up as a process of initiation - Finding and analysing crucial passages - Analysing the final scenes of the book
Component 6: It's Over - Marnus at War in Angola (1988): Marnus at war - Summing up the reading of the novel
