Activity 1. Vocabulary study - use a dictionary to define the following in conveying the ideas and mood of the story?
Cad : bad person who takes advantage of other people
Wits: intelligence brain, learning on you own, ''street smart''
Woo: charm and manipulate somebody
Fleece: steel
Desert: escape, leave
Drop names: faking to know names to look important
Fabricate: Invent story
Pull off: to get away with
Seamstress: she sews hats
Milliner: hat maker
Plain-looking: looking ordinary
Feigns: Make believe
Taken aback: Being surprised
Reel in: Capture
Blandishments: sweet talks
Blanch: react negativly
Comsummate: make love
Brooch: jewel
Activity 2. Plot: put the events in the proper sequence.PlotAct I
__2__ A. Georgia and Adelaide talk in separate monologues - George describes his role as a gigolo and Adelaide talks about her inheritance.
__6__ B. The next day they meet in the park and things happen fast - Georgia declares his love, asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts without much questioning.
__4__ C. The next day, George bumps into her by chance and invites her to lunch as he plays the perfect gentleman.
__3__ D. He says that his suits are attractive to women.
__5__ E. George enters the shop behind her and asks about the green hat in the window - the seduction of Adelaide has begun.
__1__ F. They are married in a coastal resort, book into a hotel, play cards the whole night long but do not make love because Adelaide carries a lot of emotional baggage from the past.
__9__ G. Adelaide is touched and accepts his invitation.
__8__ H. We first meet George who tells us he wears expensive clothes, just like those worn by the upper class of England.
__10__ I. The action really starts with George walking down Edgeware Road and coming face to face with Adelaide outside the clothing shop.
__7__ J. We meet Adelaide who tells us she works in the back room of a clothing store as a milliner.
Act II.
__7__ A. She dreams about opening a clothing store together; it would be the perfect fit for them.
_4___ B. George makes excuses and convinces Adelaide to take a bath.
__5__ C. Saying he has a headache, George does not go to the post office with Adelaide, but returns to the room, hoping to escape with the money and brooch.
__3__ D. Unfortunately for her George does the unthinkable.
___6_ E. George hesitates, Adelaide prepares to leave, he tries to get her money back, and he becomes angry.
__1__ F. Adelaide realizes her brooch is not there and confronts George about his lies, telling him to stop pretending.
__10__ G. She takes on an assertive role: she wants to stay with him rather than her parents and proposes a plan to him.
___8_ H. But for some unknown reason, George returns to the room to leave the brooch and as
he is leaving a second time comes face-to-face with Adelaide.
____ I. Adelaide decides to stay when she learns about George's troubled past.
____J. After Adelaide wakes up, she and George head to the bank to withdraw her inheritance and she writes a letter to her family.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Mid-term writing exam
The Reader : Movie of the year
We all know that the Oscar night is coming soon. 5 excellent movies are nominated for the movie of the year. Here's the list of the nominees : Milk, Frost Nixon, The curions case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog and The Reader. Although, one of these movie is clearely the best one and it's The Reader. Let me tell you why this movie took such a huge place in my heart when I saw it.
The synopsis goes like this. A women in the thirthee's, Hannah Smith(Kate Winslet), meets a young fifteen years old boy,Michael Berg (David Kross). Slowly, a love story is starting to grow between them. Unfortunately, after a summer of love, Hannah goes away. They won't see each other for 10 years. But the situatuation in wich they'll meet again in not as romantic has we could imagine. Hannah is in front of a tribunal for crimes she commited 20 years ago during World War II. Michael, who's now a young law student, will be devasteted. Though, he has a massive argument that could save Hannah from a life time prison. What is he going to do...
That being said, I really want to talk about why it should win the best movie Oscar. We all know about the atrocity of World War II and how nazis destroyed thousands and thousands of Jewish people lives. But what is remarquable about The Reader, is that we have a different point of you of this historical tragedy. Because, Hannah is not one of the major caracter of the masacre, she's judged for the errors she commited under orders. Her point of vue is imortant though. It becomes really interesting to take care of her arguments, because for her, what she did was normal because she was just applying rules. She just wanted everybody to be happy. It doesn't excuses hey acts, but it makes us understand why, in real life, some people did what they did. You come out of this movie with a different perception of things, you're a a little bit uncomfortable about that, but the most important thing is that it really makes you think. What did I learn? You always, always, have to see both side of a problem bfore you judge, because you might be wrong.
I think that if everyone could learn a lesson from this movie, it would be great. Beside the fact that the movie it self was amazing, the lesson that comes out of it is even bigger. Because isn't it what we want to do in life, learn and go forward?
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We all know that the Oscar night is coming soon. 5 excellent movies are nominated for the movie of the year. Here's the list of the nominees : Milk, Frost Nixon, The curions case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog and The Reader. Although, one of these movie is clearely the best one and it's The Reader. Let me tell you why this movie took such a huge place in my heart when I saw it.
The synopsis goes like this. A women in the thirthee's, Hannah Smith(Kate Winslet), meets a young fifteen years old boy,Michael Berg (David Kross). Slowly, a love story is starting to grow between them. Unfortunately, after a summer of love, Hannah goes away. They won't see each other for 10 years. But the situatuation in wich they'll meet again in not as romantic has we could imagine. Hannah is in front of a tribunal for crimes she commited 20 years ago during World War II. Michael, who's now a young law student, will be devasteted. Though, he has a massive argument that could save Hannah from a life time prison. What is he going to do...
That being said, I really want to talk about why it should win the best movie Oscar. We all know about the atrocity of World War II and how nazis destroyed thousands and thousands of Jewish people lives. But what is remarquable about The Reader, is that we have a different point of you of this historical tragedy. Because, Hannah is not one of the major caracter of the masacre, she's judged for the errors she commited under orders. Her point of vue is imortant though. It becomes really interesting to take care of her arguments, because for her, what she did was normal because she was just applying rules. She just wanted everybody to be happy. It doesn't excuses hey acts, but it makes us understand why, in real life, some people did what they did. You come out of this movie with a different perception of things, you're a a little bit uncomfortable about that, but the most important thing is that it really makes you think. What did I learn? You always, always, have to see both side of a problem bfore you judge, because you might be wrong.
I think that if everyone could learn a lesson from this movie, it would be great. Beside the fact that the movie it self was amazing, the lesson that comes out of it is even bigger. Because isn't it what we want to do in life, learn and go forward?
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