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Shakespeare In The Bush By Laura Bohannan

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Diagnostic Writing “Shakespeare in the bush” by Laura Bohannan is a story where the author goes to an African tribe to spend his summer and learn new things about Hamlet. Once, Bohannan arrives at the tribe, she stays at her residence and only reads Hamlet, meanwhile other members of the tribe drink all day every day. Tribe members tried to convince the author to drink and party along them, but she often refuses them. They find it suspicious that how can a person stare at a piece of paper whole day and not get bored. One night, a tribesmen asked her to explain the book to them, but Bohannan thought that they won’t understand anything. However, she explains her interpretation of the story, and realized that elders completely misunderstood
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