Papua New Guinea's province of Bougainville is embroiled in a war when a young girl is mesmerized by Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, read in class by the village's sole white resident. To make matters worse, in 1991, a conflict over a copper mine ravaged the island of Bougainville. Reluctant "Popeye," Hugh Laurie's "Popeye," provides the youngsters of Matilda's little town an escape with Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. However, on a war-torn island, fiction might have disastrous results.
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Papua New Guinea's province of Bougainville is embroiled in a war when a young girl is mesmerized by Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, read in class by the village's sole white resident. To make matters worse, in 1991, a conflict over a copper mine ravaged the island of Bougainville. Reluctant "Popeye," Hugh Laurie's "Popeye," provides the youngsters of Matilda's little town an escape with Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. However, on a war-torn island, fiction might have disastrous results.
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