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Homework over holidays until November 13th 2012
- Finish / Write your Reading Diary / Scrap book
- Minimum requirements/questions to be answered:
- Write a review of BNW according to handout (do not include pt. 2 - summary!)
- Characterize two characters – one male, one female (round or flat, relation to each other?. Include typical quotations and explain why they are typical!
- Collect information on what life was like "before Ford" – that is before this "Brave New World"!
- What are the principles/aims of this new society/world?
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]
- How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?
- Write an outline + a short dialogue of John's or Lenina's ideal evening![part of your reading diary]
Chapters 12+13
- Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]
Chapter 11
- Write a realistic 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!
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
- Read ch. 14
- 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
