Pre-reading discussions:
1. What do you knowabout South Africa?
2. What do you knowabout the situation in South Africa at the time the story was written?
3. Have you everheard of the “apartheid”? What do you know about it?
4. What dramatic changes have taken placein this country since the time thisstory was written?
5. Has racism beena serious problem in human history? Is the problem resolved?
6. Is it easy to detect theexistence of racism? Why or why not?
7. Does racism only involvegovernments and politicians?
8. “I have one great fear in myheart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned toloving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.” —Alan Paton
Please make your comments on thisquote.

