Perspectives

This section of the study guide will help you connect the short story “Do Not Pass Go” by Jeffrey Archer with current issues, literary period, and similar works. These aspects will add to your overall perspective on the te…

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Current issues

Published in 1995, the short story illustrates the situation of political refugees through Hamid’s character. The story is quite complex in terms of socio-historical aspects (making references to Saddam Hussein’s regime, to the CIA, or society in different countries). Now, Saddam Hussein is dead as he was executed after the US …

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Literary period and critical reception

Jeffery Archer is a contemporary, postmodernist writer. Postmodernism has been the dominant literary movement in the Western world starting with 1960s. Postmodernist writers usually refuse to be categorised according to a spe…

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Works with the same theme

For the theme of immigration we recommend that you also read stories like “Loose Change” by Andrea Levy, “I See You Never” by Ray Bradbury, and “Aline’s Journey” by Edwidge Danticat.

“Loose Change” follows an English woman who accidentally encounters a refugee girl from Uzbekistan. Although the woman realis…