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]]> 2022-05-10 00:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2176612601 1568657 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2177522686 2022-05-10 12:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2177522686 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185608339 1. As said in the authors life summary, "Lessing was employed as a nursemaid". In the story, the boy "experiences" death, or in other words, what it is like to die. Similarly, a nursemaid often tends to patients who are on their dying bed. 

2. Knowing that the author is a nurse and the story involves death, the story sets an example of what one goes though what they see someone/something dies in front of their eyes. ]]> 2022-05-16 12:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185608339 15529072 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185614702 1.  The author grew up in Africa, where the story is set, and she writes about elements of her childhood. Childhood and innocence are topics she widely explores in this story.

2. It makes the story feel more authentic and helps the reader understand what people in this place and time do/could experience. ]]> 2022-05-16 12:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185614702 1562189 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185614885 1. The story tries to emphasis death and the meaning behind it which is a great topic for children to take on, similarly Lessing tires to write short stories about hard and often philosophical topics. ]]> 2022-05-16 12:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185614885 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185615152 1. The author was raised on a farm in Africa, very similar to the setting of the story.
2. The themes of racism and color prejudice that the author experienced in her childhood provide insight into these themes in the story. ]]> 2022-05-16 12:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185615152 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185615506 1) One connection between the author and the story is her studying of phycology, and her story showing how different events lead to different emotions/reactions. 

2) The author's employment as a nurse maid caused her to observe the course of life, and to accept the fact that people die. ]]> 2022-05-16 12:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185615506 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185617360 1) The setting of A Sunrise on the Veld takes place in Zimbabwe, which is where Lessing herself grew up during her childhood

2) Due to the experiences that Lessing herself had bore witness to during her years on her father's Rhodesian farmhouse, she was able to reflect her acquaintance with life in Rhodesia and was therefore inspired on a viscerally personal level.]]> 2022-05-16 12:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185617360 17886601 https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185618032 Knowing that Lessing explores topics like psychology helps us understand the abstract or theoretical approach to the story and how one perceives their way of living. ]]> 2022-05-16 12:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1568657/72okx9v387zlrfee/wish/2185618032