When Jurong West Secondary School student Tanya Sing, 15, takes her O levels in English literature this year, she will have studied social inequality in texts both foreign and familiar.
One, the early 20th-century play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, is a British classic on class difference. But it is the other, local anthology Here And Beyond: 12 Stories, that she connects with - particularly the story Grasshoppers by Singaporean writer O Thiam Chin, about the 12-year-old son of a hawker who is a single mother trying to make ends meet.
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