Out, Out, Brief Candle!
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Out, Out, Brief Candle!

Macbeth Comes to Africa's Children of Fire

  1. 114 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Out, Out, Brief Candle!

Macbeth Comes to Africa's Children of Fire

About this book

Out, Out, Brief Candle! is the remarkable story of African children who have survived terrible fires and gone on to thrive at Children of Fire, a charity based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Martin Klammer recalls his time helping the children develop their personal writing and rehearse and perform Macbeth. Told with affection and humor, Out, Out, Brief Candle! is an inspiring story of an exceptional African "family."The South African novelist and children's writer Sindiwe Magona says of Out, Out, Brief Candle!: "This is a brave book. The 'voices' of these tender survivors of fire--their struggles, their fortitude--may bring us nearer to becoming more effective in minding the children given to us as a trust. Martin Klammer has brought the unheard cries of those whose lives have been forever altered by the scourge of fire to our ears and eyes. Are we listening? Do we see?"

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: February 2: “They Shall be Comforted”
  4. Chapter 2: February 3: “Out, Out, Brief Candle!”
  5. Chapter 3: February 5: “Upon the Health”
  6. Chapter 4: February 10: “That’s a Nose”
  7. Chapter 5: February 11: “Happy as Larry”
  8. Chapter 6: February 18: “Granny Didn’t Hear the Fire”
  9. Chapter 7: Why Poor Children Get Burned
  10. Chapter 8: February 20: “I Sing Myself”
  11. Chapter 9: February 24: “We Have the Same Souls”
  12. Chapter 10: Chapter 10: February 25: “The Ere the Set of Sun”
  13. Chapter 11: February 27: “That’s Touching!”
  14. Chapter 12: March 1: “They Don’t Shrink in the Rain”
  15. Chapter 13: March 4: “The Eye that I Got”
  16. Chapter 14: March 7: “I Love Her More than the Whole World”
  17. Chapter 15: Burn Treatment and Prevention in the Developing World
  18. Chapter 16: March 10: “Anon”
  19. Chapter 17: March 11: “I was Burnt in a Big, Big House”
  20. Chapter 18: The Emotional Health of Child Burn Survivors
  21. Chapter 19: March 15: “Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble!”
  22. Chapter 20: “What Children of Fire Means to Me”
  23. Chapter 21: March 16: “They Shall be Comforted”
  24. Bibliography