Nadine Gordimer

"A Company of Laughing Faces"


1 Discuss the significance of the boy's death to the story as a whole.

2 Analyze the story throughout the lens of Gordimer's Author's Perspective.

3 Gordimer writes of youth culture in 1965 in South Africa. Write an essay comparing her depiction to your experience of North American youth culture today.


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