The Reservoir by Janet Frame (Detailed commentary and analysis)

Detailed commentary and analysis by Claire's Notes of The Reservoir by Janet Frame
Stories of Ourselves: Cambridge iGCSE

A young girl has moved along with her large family to a small New Zealand town where clean drinking water is supplied by the mysterious Reservoir. Prohibited from going there due to the risk of drowning, the children are forced to use their wild imaginations to fill in the blanks of their knowledge about it.
One hot summer, when the schools are all shut due to an epidemic of polio, the children abandon their studies to go down to the creek which leads to the Reservoir. It's only a matter of time before one of them suggests they break the rules...

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