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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

Plot Summary: The novel “The Fifth Child” by Doris Lessing, is about two single adults, Harriet and David, who met at a party. David was divorced, and sleeping with different women every night, and harriet was single, and ready to settle down. As anyone could predict, the two fall in love and get married. Their lifelong dream was to raise a large, perfect family. They knew from the start that they wanted many children, “probably six”, Harriet suggested, although her mother in law Dorothy thought

The Fifth Child: The Fifth Child The Fifth Child ©2010 eNotes.com, Inc. or its Licensors. Please see copyright information at the end of this document. Harriet and David Lovatt are a conventional couple in 1960’s England. Their only oddity seems to be their desire for a large family, and when they produce four children in quick succession, they seem to be building the happy family they want. The Christian connotations of the names of the male children, Paul and Luke, are unmistakable, and this

Themes The Fifth Child is a potent and suggestive piece of writing. It is first and foremost a criticism of the British society on different levels. Doris Lessing’s vision of this society is stern, satiric and bleak. Some of the major themes tackled in this book include the importance of family, the Swinging Sixties, tolerance, the role of women, motherhood, sacrifice, loneliness, rejection, violence, fear, and more. The Swinging Sixties: - In the unconstrained atmosphere of England in

of the text is important. Pay attention to the punctuation/ pronunciation of the phonemes/ intonation/ stressing of the words The introduction 1- Give the source of the extract “The passage I’m going to present is taken from the novel The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. It was published in 1988.” 2- Make a brief summary of the novel. 3- Situate the passage in its context. (information about the plot at that stage of the novel/ what happened earlier in the text/ Give all the necessary information

‘Harriet and David met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go to’ to ‘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

Doris Lessing Extract 1 p.3 to p. This extract is the first scene of the fifth child, a book published in 1988. Doris Lessing was a British writer, her life had been full of adventures and of stranges events. She was awarded the Nobel prize of litterature in 2007. The first scene we have to analyse introduces us to the main characters : Harriet and David. They met at an office party. In this passage, we learn about their lifestyle, their moral and pshycological features Firstly, we will see that

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EXTRACT n°4 Doris Lessing is a famous British writer. In 1988, she wrote the fifth child and in 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel is about a couple, Harriet and David, having a happy life and lot of children. They buy a house, and spend Christmas and Easter holiday every year with their family. Everything is going well, until Christmas 1973 and Harriet’s fifth pregnancy. This new pregnancy makes her suffer, so she goes to see her usual doctor, who has been

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