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Discussion starters:
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What is the importance of the image of
Grandmother Delport as "a ship come sailing into Zandtbaai
harbour with Aunt Betje's children bobbing like little boats around
her"?
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What images of alienation do you find in the
story?
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What motivates Jan Boetje?
- Smith in "Background to Platkops"
points out that the Little Karoo is defined by mountains -- the Aangenaam
Hills, the Teniquota mountains, the Zwartkops range; how do you find
mountains functioning symbollically and thematically in this story?
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Critical Sources:
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Haresnape,
Geoffrey. "Barriers of Race and Language: Pauline Smith's Critique of a
Rural Society." English in Africa, 4.1 (1977): 40-46.
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Smith,
Pauline. "Background to Platkops." The Unknown Pauline
Smith. Ed. Ernest Pereira. Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal P,
1993. 158-65.
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