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Analysis Of The White Giraffe By Lauren St. John
“The White Giraffe”, by Lauren St. John, was written and published in 2006. The novel starts off on New Year's Eve in Hampshire, England, the story takes place on a wildlife reserve, in Sawubona, Zimbabwe, in South Africa.. For one, Sawubona is where Martine’s grandfather died while trying to escape the poachers who were trying to kill the giraffes at the reserve. Not only that, it is also the place where the legend of the white giraffe had originated and where the white giraffe supposedly lives. If the story had taken place in another setting, the characters would not have been able to develop as they did, nor reacted as they did, because the environment they were in would've been different. Because they were in Sawubona, Zimbabwe, in

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