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Study Guide:

Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place

Prepared by Rachel DeMille

This Study Guide is prepared as a companion to the Mentoring in the Classics Audio Series. For more information, visit TJEd.org/MIC

Copyright © Oliver & Rachel DeMille, TJEd.org “An Education to Match Your Mission”

 

This Month’s Mentoring Content

The Introductory Mentoring for this book (provided via links in your course email) is presented by Oliver DeMille, in 2 separate audios. Listen to both as an introduction to this month’s reading. Later this month a Debriefing Audio will be sent to you.

Please take a moment to download your audio content to your computer immediately so you have uninterrupted access to it! Ideas for Writing or Discussion:

• While the author’s religious views are a major feature of this story, in what way are the ideals the book teaches universal?

• Is there a story in your heritage (family or culture) of heroism or altruism that is comparable to this one?

• This book is part of a genre where the protagonist(s) endure great sorrow and depravation, and the triumphs are, by and large, inner victories. In what way is this story representative of “the best of humanity?”

• Consider the story of the fleas. Does this apply to you in any way?

• Consider the repeating motif of “father’s suitcase.” Does this apply to you in any way?

• What are the different types of group leadership?

• What is the Family Executive Committee? How can you apply it, or better apply it, in your family?

• When is it better to have committee/team-style leadership, and when is it better to have executive/one-leader leadership?

This Study Guide is prepared as a companion to the Mentoring in the Classics Audio Series. For more information, visit TJEd.org/MIC

Copyright © Oliver & Rachel DeMille, TJEd.org “An Education to Match Your Mission”

• “Different leaders lead differently.” Discuss.

• Do you mentor/parent different kids differently? Discuss.

• Do you mentor/parent differently for the same child at different ages?

• Does your family or heritage have stories of character and integrity, where the individual made choices according to principle in the face of great opposition?

• Oliver lists four elements that distinguish great literature as “classic.” Consider each of these individually

1. Great literature gives glaring insight into human nature and allows us to experience, vicariously, the greatest mistakes and successes (What is the virtue of vicarious, as opposed to first-hand, experience?)

2. Great literature brings us face to face with greatness (How does literature bring one face to face with greatness? Give examples.)

3. Great literature takes us to the inner frontier to be conquered (How does literature bring you to the inner frontier? Give examples.)

4. Great literature forces us to think and to feel (Give examples of this.)

• Henry David Thoreau: “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” Discuss.

• How do you come face to face with greatness?

• How does the “immediate” or the “urgent” get in the way of the “important” in your life? What can you do to change this?

• Joseph Campbell: “Where you stumble, there your treasure is.” Discuss.

This Study Guide is prepared as a companion to the Mentoring in the Classics Audio Series. For more information, visit TJEd.org/MIC

Copyright © Oliver & Rachel DeMille, TJEd.org “An Education to Match Your Mission”

Resources for Additional Study:

• Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning • “Bubble Top Moment” mp3 by Oliver DeMille • “Family Executive Committee” by Oliver & Rachel DeMille • Collins, Good to Great

Level 5 Mentor Prompt on The Hiding Place:

1. Make a list of lessons and principles Corrie teaches, making special note of the ones you need in your life right now.

2. List the lessons, principles, and guidelines of mentoring.

3. Write a list of events/situations where one of the characters does

the right thing even when it was hard or seemed like the wrong thing.