The Story of an African Farm

By Olive Schreiner

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Discussion Starters:

Compare and contrast Lyndall and Em and their relationship with Tant Sannie.

What is Waldo’s role in this novel?

Compare Lyndall and Em to Marta and Sukey in Pauline Smith’s “Sisters.”

Schreiner was raised in a missionary home but rejected the faith of her parents; how does Christianity impact the story?

A kopje is a “small head” that rises above the surrounding countryside (see below). What does the kopje near the farm represent to the various characters?