Describe the narrator’s feelings towards the young woman and the young man

Questions for “The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen” (1966) by Graham Greene
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What is the setting of the story? How does knowledge about the setting help us in understanding the story?
What can you say about the narrator of this story? Describe the narrator’s feelings towards the young woman and the young man. What sort of tone is used?
How is the group of men seated at the table next to the narrator described? How did you react to these descriptions?

Questions for “Keeping on the Right Side of the Law” (2005) by Val McDermid
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This story seems to make fun of a number of middle-class norms, institutions and social behaviours. How? Can you offer some examples?
In what sense is language important in the story? Hint: Think both in terms of the development of atmosphere, as well as the ways in which the different characters use the language and what different words signify.
What does the story say about the women’s situation and about the solutions that are on offer?

The Golden Age by Joan London
What type of narrator is there in the novel? How does the narrative technique affect how we understand the characters? How do we find out about their past, and why is the narrative constructed in this way, do you think?

Frank and his family are Jewish survivors of the Nazi occupation of Hungary. How has the persecution, fear, hiding and work camp experience affected his mother, father and himself?

In describing their first time in Australia it says that “here they were, in a free, democratic country, and they were gutted, feeble, shell-shocked” (26). In what different ways do the three characters Frank, Meyer and Ida view their new country and their new life? How are they viewed by others? What parallels can be drawn to the experiences of immigrants today, and to attitudes towards immigrants? How has immigration shaped Australia? Compare the views expressed in the novel with those of the poems and excerpts in the Australia chapter in PTE – can you see any similarities or recurring tropes? What do you know about how immigrants are treated in Australia today?

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