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scene takes place in the USA: "Outside her bedroom window, a siren's wail sliced through the white noise of a wet snowfall. Those eerie man-made moans were part of New-Your City's wallpaper (...)" (l.2-3) 2. There are three characters. Their names are Fiona Sweeny (the main character), Chris and Devi. 3. Fiona Sweeny's nickname is Fi, and she has one brother and two sisters. The four children were brought up by their mother alone. 4. Possible quotations: "She turned her attention back to her bag, which

COMPRÉHENSION 1. Who is the main character? 2. In which country was he born? Justify by quoting from the text. 3. Explain how the main character is connected to the following places: a) Langford b) Winchester c) Calcutta d) Delhi e) Massachusetts 4. What do we learn about his parents (origin, occupation, social status)? 5. What consequences did the father's job have on the life of his family? 6. In your own words, explain to what extent Langford was a new experience to the main character. Justify by quoting at

main character and his father are in the inner ashram yard, which belongs to a religious Hindu community. Identify the different members of the family. A family of three people is presented in the text. The son is the main character of the text. His parents have different social background: his mother belongs to a low caste while his father is a member of the priestly caste in the Hindu caste system. What sort of school did the boy attend? Who ran it? The main character went

a narrator. That’s why she takes Jim as a narrator. What is crucial to remember is that Willa Cather, through her semi-autobiographical character Jim Burden, is writing in the voice of a man. Indeed, she doesn’t want to tell her own story with her feelings : she doesn’t want to remember her own past and give any justification. Though Cather bases the character Ántonia on a real person that she knew during her Nebraska childhood, she chooses not to describe her from a female perspective. Cather is

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 indications about what will happen in the future. Here, the main characters are presented Harriet and David, a conventional couple in 1960’s England who already seem to go against the conventions of the times. In this extract they meet, are excluded but also alike. Wondering

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an element of normal middle-class life, which Lola has too - after all, her father is a bank director. But Lola's vibrating energy was already visible in Franka in 'It's a Jungle Out There'. It was a strength I wanted to see unfold. I wanted real characters who were immediately likeable and whose love was believable. With Franka and Moritz Bleibtreu you wish from the very beginning that they are a couple and that they stay a couple. They are made for one another. Moritz has an unbelievable presence

exigence minimale. En l'absence d'indication, les candidats répondront brièvement à la question posée. Les citations seront limitées aux éléments pertinents et précédées de la mention de Ia ligne. 1. Grace, Mr. March, Augustus Clement are characters in the story. a) Which one is the narrator? b) How are the other two related? 2. In whose house does the scene take place? 3. In what part of the US is the scene set? Quote two elements from the text to justify your answer. 4

The narrator introduces the city of Vevey in a very positive way, saying that it has the « characteristices of an American watering place ». The plot is set « two or three years ago » during a summer morning, and the reader soon discovers the main character, Winterbourne, who has come to visit his aunt. This 27 years old young man is sitting in the 3 couronnes hotel's garden, looking about him. Of his life, we know that he is American but that has been living in Geneva since he was a boy, and that

only advantage to live here : the taxes are low. This cartoon is humorous. Humour comes from the absurdity of the situation and the discrepancy (or the difference) between the words of the character speaking in the bubble and the horror he lives day after day. Possible questions of the other character : “I can’t bear that noise anymore. We have to leave !” “Why did you buy this house, I wonder ?” “We should never have bought this house !” “We should have sold this house a long time ago