Great Expectations, a book by Charles Dickens, is being read out in class by the only other white person in the community as a war rages on in the Papua New Guinean region of Bougainville. The island of Bougainville was torn apart in 1991 by a conflict over a copper mine in the South Pacific. With Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the recluse "Popeye" (Hugh Laurie) provides an escape for the kids in fourteen-year-old Matilda's little village. Fiction, however, can have negative repercussions on a war-torn island.
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Great Expectations, a book by Charles Dickens, is being read out in class by the only other white person in the community as a war rages on in the Papua New Guinean region of Bougainville. The island of Bougainville was torn apart in 1991 by a conflict over a copper mine in the South Pacific. With Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the recluse "Popeye" (Hugh Laurie) provides an escape for the kids in fourteen-year-old Matilda's little village. Fiction, however, can have negative repercussions on a war-torn island.
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