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Nadine Gordimer

The Ultimate Safari

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1991

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Essay Topics

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Who are the forces at war in Mozambique and how does the narrator represent these forces in her telling? Does her representation of events match the historical record?

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How do the three children in the story differ in their response to war? In what way are the children symbolic of the human response to trauma?

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What does Gordimer imply with the title “The Ultimate Safari,” and how is that implication carried throughout the story?