60 pages 2 hours read

Richard Llewellyn

How Green Was My Valley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

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Essay Topics

1.

How does the novel explore the relationship between the Welsh and the English?

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How does Huw portray his father as a community leader? How does that portrayal shed light on the definitions of masculinity or manhood in the novel?

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The slag heaps begin to appear all around the village. What do they represent to the people of the Valley? How does this detail in setting affect your analysis of the community?