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THE FIFTH CHILD DORIS LESSING The passage is about when dog which arrived in the family. One day, the dog does suddenly, and Harriet doesn’t know how he die. I- The evil in Ben - Harriet is puzzled hut has her suspicious. The life at home is destroyed. His behavior is strange: quirky laugh and an angry look -He’s really violent; he kills the dog and the cat. He’s like a wild animal in cage, he wait all day long like a predator -Ben is like a psychopath: watches, follows his victims. He wants

THE FIFTH CHILD INTRODUCTION “I hated writing it”, that’s what Doris Lessing said after writing The Fifth Child. Doris Lessing is a British author from the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007. She wrote many bestsellers such as The Golden Notebook, or The fifth Child, published in 1988. The fifth child is a minor classic. There is also a follow up of this book called Ben in the world. The first scene of this book introduces the characters, the setting and gives us some

WORKSHEET N°1 – FROM THE BEGINNING TO PAGE 4 (….David was an architect) 1) LANDMARKS. 1- This passage is the very beginning of the Fifth Child. It is the introductory scene. The first pages of a novel are very important because they present/ introduce the main characters and the setting of the action/ the plot. They also set the atmosphere of the plot. 2- The beginning of the fifth child brings us information about the 2 main characters of the story, Harriet and Harry Lovatt: we learn

Episode List The Fifth Child runs in an uninterrupted flow from beginning to end, without any apparent chapters dissecting reading. To make it easier for my pupils to read through the text, I have split the novel in several episodes. This is just a suggestion. Others may find the text fits in more suited frames. 1. pp. 7-9 “Harriet and David met each other at an office party” to “David was an architect" THE OFFICE PARTY 2. pp 9-11 “So what was it about these two” to “They were made for

Unwanted pregnancies and abortion in Sweden, the balance Benoit GEOFFROY Mid Sweden University, department of social work Introduction Unwanted pregnancy is a worldwide problem that often leads to abortion, both legal and illegal. In Sweden since 1975, the year the actual Abortion act was promulgated, the average number of abortions is around 30.000 a year (Wilow K & Liber AB, 2000), but this number is increasing and reached 38.053 in 2000, as against 30.771 10 years earlier. More generally

DORIS LESSING “ The fifth child” ( p 13-16 “ If I’m pregnant), Harper Perennial Intro: up to you / put this passage into its context recall what happened in the first extract studied The question we shall try to answer: will the house Harriet and David have found be their home sweet home, the house of their dreams? 1) LONGING FOR A HOUSE AND A KINGDOM a)David’s love for his room and his desire to find a new one: -elements we have in the passage just before this one ( p 12) + David’s wish

‘they were made for each other’. INTRO This is the opening passage of the novel The Fifth Child, in which Lessing introduces the reader to the two main protagonists, Harriet and David. She begins at the very “beginning” of “their” story, focusing on the moment they first met and fell in love. The scene is set at an end of year office party in Sixties London. There are five main parts to this passage. 1. A description of the party and the people there, including a comment on what people think

Introduction The propensity of human beings to form partnerships and establish family units is almost universal, and often in establishing these marriage partnerships, some form of ceremony is carried out. Further, there are remarkable similarities of thought, ideas, and symbolism across cultures in these ceremonies. The ceremony is usually a public event so that the community to which the couple belong can witness the union—this public aspect of the ceremony is very important in marriage throughout

Summer experience in an English-speaking country AMSTERDAM Contents Introduction 3 Why Amsterdam ? 3 Duration of my stay 4 Visit or work ? 5 descriptions 5 The Netherlands 5 Amsterdam 9 My stay 15 Places visited 15 Practice of English 17 Difficulties 18 Learnings 19 Amazing stories

Amélie - Analyse the trajectory of the female protagonist and the way in which the film encourages the viewer to assess what happens to her. Jeunet’s movie Amélie was an international success that divided France. Many were choked by ‘the film’s whitewashing of Paris’ (Dudley), the very noticeable use of CGI, the ‘ tricks and stereotypes’, the fact that the film was filled with ‘hackneyed images of eternal “Frenchness”’ (Film Comment)