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Ideas to discuss
Macmillan have
produced an excellent reading guide to
The Witness. Click
here to download it.
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some ideas to discuss
There are a lot of different themes in The Witness - loss, bullying, responsibility, disability, the environment, music, the land, politics. I didn't necessarily set out to write about them when I began the book, they just emerged as I told the story. Here are some of the questions The Witness invites you to ask:
- Is any cause worth killing for? - What would it be like to lose a brother or sister?
- Would it ever be right to kill someone?
- How do you think you would feel if you'd killed someone?
- When would it be right to fight over land?
- Who do you think land should belong to?
- Why is it important that we look after the land?
- How do people make a living in the Highlands?
- Do you feel you belong to the place where you live?
- If so, how would you describe what belonging means?
- Can music help you to feel you belong somewhere?
- What would it be like if you could only live in the present, without any real idea of what has happened or what is going to happen?
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'A fiercely provocative vision of a
possible Scotland'
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