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My intention was to explore the theme of storytelling in Coetzee’s ‘Foe’. I wanted to challenge the view that fiction is a representation of the world from which it draws its ideas. The essay is a response to the prompt: “It can be dangerous to follow the wrong dream”.
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I was mortified a couple of years ago when to my horror, Atticus Finch was exposed as a racist. The release of the undiscovered sequel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was met with great excitement. Popularly regarded as the great American novel (according to Oprah Winfrey), Harper Lee’s classic story of one man’s defense of a young innocent negro boy, established Atticus Finch as the country’s moral conscience. That was, until our expectations were dashed and our imagined view of Atticus Finch was revealed to be just that, a fantasy.
