Example essays
Twenty-eight readings, fourteen countries
Twenty-eight example essays exploring the novel through books and questions from fourteen countries. They use imagined student voices and a range of classroom tasks, among them A level coursework, the French dissertation, the German Facharbeit and the Russian individual project. One essay in each pair reads the novel as literature; the other tests it against a real problem at home. None claims to speak for a whole school system.
Please read first. These are example essays written for this site to show some of the ways the novel can be studied. The student voices are imagined, and the essays are not approved by any exam board; two are shortened or practice versions of their tasks, as their pages explain. The essays discuss the whole novel, including its ending, so each essay opens only once you say you have finished the book. Quotations are checked word for word against the paperback (ISBN 9798162251088).
