recent homework

Read chapter 18!

• How do you like/understand the end of this dystopian novel?

• (Re-)Read chapter 16!

If you ask people what counts in life and makes it worth living, they will often come up with these answers:

• family/relationships
• happiness
• feeling/passion
• love
• freedom
• equaility
• friendship
• truth
• art
• peace/stability

What role do these values play in the utopian society of Brave New World, or in what form do they appear? (Cf. chapter 16/17)[part of your reading diary]

• For Tuesday

1. Read ch. 14
2. How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?

Write an outline + a short dialogue [part of your reading diary]

• Read chapters 12+13 for next Friday!
• Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]

• Read chapter 11
• Write a diary entry for John's diary in which he notes down all the things he doesn't understand or like about the new world! - Use these notes as a starting point, but refer to the book!

• Tuesday October 2nd: read ch. 8 and 9

Chapter 8 (p. 118-120)

- How similar are Bernhard and John really?

- What do you think of Bernhard's scepticism in the last sentence of ch. 8?

• Read chapters 6 + 7 , Compare Bernhard and John in their way of seeing things and in terms of their position in society. What do you think about Bernhard's behavior and his motives?

• Worksheet: Narrators and points of view

• Friday: narrator + point of view in 3 texts on worksheet, too, how is style (formal/informal) linked to narrator/point of view mark relevant passages

• Tuesday: read ch 4 + 5 , find good examples of narrator + pov