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Olive Schreiner
A novel set on a South African farm that depicts the lives and inner struggles of its inhabitants, particularly children, through a realistic rather than romantic lens. Schreiner employs introspective psychological portraiture and philosophical meditation on existence, mortality, and human development.
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On a South African farm, a girl's fierce hunger for freedom and a boy's crisis of faith expose how society crushes those who dare to think.
faith-and-doubt
He had not dared to look at it; he had not whispered it to himself, but for a year he had carried it. 'I hate God!'
SAF-RC-009'Oh, God, God! save them!' he cried in agony… He grovelled on the floor. Oh, the long, long ages of the past.
SAF-RC-005self-and-identity
'There is nothing helps in this world,' said the child slowly… 'I intend to go to school.'
SAF-RC-011'I cannot marry you because I cannot be tied; but if you wish, you may take me away with you… when we do not love any more we can say good-bye.'
SAF-RC-166obedience-and-authority
Whenever you come into contact with any opinion you absolutely comprehend nothing, declare that opinion to be immoral… carefully abstain from studying it.
SAF-RC-064She just put her books under her arm and walked out; and she will never come to his school again, she says, and she always does what she says.
SAF-RC-035Illuminates
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