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Extract 1 (Chapter 1, pp 8-10)
Activity 1
- What is the purpose of this extract?
- Identify the main tense and comment on why it is used in this extract.
- How is the sense of isolation portrayed in this extract?
- What does the storyteller/narrator think about this village? Justify your answer with reference to the text.
- How is the issue of The outsider versus social order portrayed in this extract and in the novel as a whole?
Activity 2
- You are a relative of one of the Bastidiens who lives in the village, and you have come to visit him/her for several weeks.
In your diary you write approximately 200 words about your impressions of the village and the inhabitants.
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