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English - LK 09/11

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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 swim
  • light-headed
  • veteran of long distance flying
  • he exaggerates
  • he's got a wife

Philipp Swallow

  • afraid of flying
  • 40 years old
  • unaccustomed to traveling
  • unconfident
  • infinitely suggestable
  • observes other people
  • conservative/traditional
  • married too
  • good imagination
  • professor of English
  • excited about flying/travelling

University Life and Academical System

Euphoric State University

  • colloquially known as Euphoric State
  • replica of the leaning Tower of Pisa (white stones, twice the original size)
  • very good paid professors
  • small but populus state between North and South California
  • mountains, lakes, rivers, redwood forests, blond beaches, incomparable bay
  • one of America's major universities
  • most distinguished scholars, laboratories, libraries, research grants, longlegged secretaries
  • not too diffucult to obtain a bachelor's degree
  • students have to work a lot on their own
  • necessary credits are accumulated at free time
  • it's easy to cheat at this school


Rummidge

  • replica of the leaning Tower of Pisa (red bricks, to scale)
  • bad paid professors
  • large, graceless industrial city, in the English midlands, at intersection of 3 motorways, 26 railway lines, 6 stagnant canals
  • the values changed from old to new => lost prestige
  • disgruntled and discouraged mood
  • middle size university

Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain

USA

  • violent country
  • revolts on the universitie
  • campuses in revolt
  • growing cities and devastated countryside
  • it isn't legal to abort
  • melodramatic and violent country
  • politicians get killed sometimes

Britain

  • school system is not easy
  • bad weather
  • high-level language
  • Rummidge is one of many industrial cities in the Midlands
  • tea time
  • it is legal to abort