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Extract 8 (Chapter 14, pp 119-120)

Activity 1

1. How are the issues of The outsider versus social order and Our relationship with the environment explored in this extract and in the novel as a whole?
   
   
2. «Il faut être modéré en toutes choses. De la mesure ! De la mesure!» How is this quote out of step with Jean’s character?
   
   
3. How is the Australian rabbit described? Refer to the language used in this extract.
   
   
4. Comment on the use of the conditional tense in the first paragraph.

Activity 2

1. «Ce malheureux ….. grimper dans les arbres ».
   
   Imagine that you are Ugolin and you are retelling your friends in the village about the Australian rabbits.
   
   Write the script of approximately 200 words of the conversation.

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