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Version vom 4. Oktober 2010, 10:30 Uhr

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CHANGIN PLACES by David Lodge

Two main Characters: Personality, Family, Career

Morris Zapp

  • 40 years old
  • smoker
  • he never left america so far
  • long gorilla-like arms
  • professor of English
  • cannot swimm
  • light-headed
  • veteran of long distance flying
  • he exaggerates
  • he's got a wife (Désirée) and twins
  • ambitious
  • intelligent
  • very successful
  • highly respected
  • don´t like the British

Philipp Swallow

  • afraid of flying
  • 40 years old
  • unaccustomed to traveling
  • unconfident
  • infinitely suggestable
  • observes other people
  • conservative/traditional
  • married to Hilary
  • three children
  • good imagination
  • professor of English
  • excited about flying/travelling
  • intelligence and ability, but lack of ambition and will (p.15)
  • loves literature in all its diverse forms
  • boring life and marriage

University Life and Academical System

Euphoric State University

  • exchange programm with Rummidge for many years
  • beautiful landscape around
  • one of America´s major universities (p.13)
  • teachers don´t want to go to Britain
  • pays the British teachers a huge salary for the exchange
  • good facilities: libraries etc.

Rummidge

  • exchange programm with Euphoric State University for many years
  • in an industrial city
  • university of middle size and not good reputation (p.14)
  • teachers are proud to represent their university in Euphoric State
  • middle sized

Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain

USA

  • it´s easy to get a bachelor, but after that it gets harder

Britain

  • the British school system is very hard, because they have many tests at different ages (eleven-plus etc.)
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