FORTITUDE  - Package Short Story and Guided Questions

This Digital Package contains a short story followed by guided questions. Excellent for helping to unravel racism and learning to treat all people with respect.

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Nelson Mandela sits in full-fledged discussion in a barren prison cell – Robben Island 1972. His counterpart is the youthful Dirk Kortella, his Afrikaner jailer, a product of the vicious apartheid system. Mandela speaks of meaning through language, love, humanity and, what Hepworth describes as, ‘Almost Impossible Thoughts’.

Kortella listens.

We should listen too.

Australian author and educator Margaret Hepworth has been granted permission by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to use Nelson Mandela in a cameo role, as a pivotal fictional character in her novel Clarity in Time (published by Balboa Press 2012). Her novel is now housed in the Nelson Mandela Foundation Resource Centre in South Africa, and is available on Amazon. ‘Fortitude’ sits as the prologue to the novel. You will receive ‘Fortitude’ as a Short Story.

The Guided Questions can take place over several conversations, or you may choose only a few discussion points as a conversation at home, or a one-off class or student forum. It is an excellent impetus to take people, young and older, to their own next point of mindful action.

This Guide includes some deep questions – pick and choose according to your participants’ age group and experiences.

This Short Story and Guided Questions are designed to get us all thinking.