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    A Study Guide for Kei Hulme's The Bone People
    A Study Guide for Kei Hulme's The Bone People
    A Study Guide for Kei Hulme's The Bone People
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    A Study Guide for Kei Hulme's The Bone People

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    A Study Guide for Kei Hulme's "The Bone People," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 14, 2015
    ISBN9781535835466
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      The Bone People

      Keri Hulme

      1984

      Introduction

      The Bone People, published in 1984, is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it.

      Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985), a coveted literary award. The Bone People, which began as a short story, took Hulme twelve years to write. As of 2006, it was the only novel that she has published.

      The Bone People has been praised for its story and for the way it is written, which is said to reflect the intonation and style of the Maori language. The story is, in fact, filled with allusions to the Maori culture and many of the challenges that the Maori people face, those common struggles caused by the colonization of an indigenous people. At the same time, however, the problems that are presented in this story have universal relevance. The story attempts to answer questions about how one heals deep-seated, emotional pain, how one becomes true to oneself, and how one finds love.

      Author Biography

      Keri Hulme was born on March 9, 1947 in Christchurch, New Zealand, to a mother of mixed Maori and Scots heritage and an English father. Her father died when Hulme was eleven. By that time, she had already demonstrated her potential as a writer, creating poems and short stories and rewriting published stories that she thought she could improve. To encourage her daughter (the eldest of six siblings), Hulme's mother converted a sun porch into a writing studio. When Hulme was eighteen, she had a dream about a mute, mysterious boy with long hair and green eyes. From this dream, she modeled the character of Simon in her first novel. Like her protagonist, Kerewin Holmes, Keri Hulme identifies most with her Maori heritage. Also like her protagonist, Hulme left home early and worked odd jobs, one in a tobacco field, another for the New Zealand post office system. She spent one year at the University of Canterbury.

      In 1972, at the age of twenty-five, Hulme decided to write full time. She had several short stories and poems published. In 1975, she won the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Prize for her short story Hooks and Feelers. A few years later, she accepted the position of resident writer at Otago University, and later she also worked at the University of Canterbury.

      Silences Between, published in 1982, was Hulme's

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