Being There – Otama In the middle of the mud humbly sits Otama. Otama protectively grasps it’s last few possessions. A wise white church. A tired brick hall. And a school. Only a stretch of tar seal has ever penetrated Otama’s grasp, cleanly cutting the establishment in half – hall and church on one side, […]

“How did Markus Zusak employ features of the genre Magical Realism to convey his ideas about human existence in his novel The Book Thief?” Markus Zusak conveys his ideas about the obscuring social perspective we use to look at and consequently react to actions within society in his novel, The Book Thief. Zusak does this […]

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