Fifth Child

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‘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

The Fifth Child is a novel written by Doris Lessing, Dorris Lessing was born on 22nd October 1919, is a very famour English novelist, she has written many novels such as " The golden notebook" and "The Fifth Child" The First cover, we are under the impression, according to the way the photo is taken that the boy is sad and feels alone. He puts his hands agains, the windows as if he were looking at people leaving him. On the second cover, we can see something which looks like both a human and a monster

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

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

Extract 1 Introduction : In her novella, The Fifth Child, published in 1988, Doris Lessing tells the upheaval of a blissful family after the fifth child, a large, ugly, violent and uncontrollable child, is born. The passage under study is part of the incipit. Indeed, we are presented to the protagonists, the parents David & Harriet Lovatt when they first met at an office party in the 60s (their encounter, their backgrounds => past influencing their future). Guideline : To what extent their respective

children and a large house, and “middle” people, who have to be more careful because they will have to raise them correctly. Luke comes into the world, then Helen, Jane and finally Paul. The family is happy, although a Down's syndrome child was born into Sarah and Williams family. The extract can be divided into 3 parts: a) From the beginning to l. 22 “And she would be right.”: Harriet cannot manage without help after Dorothy's departure. b) From l. 23 “It will be

with children, and it seems that they will succeed. After bearing four young children, however, Harriet is feeling the strain of years of childbearing, sleeplessness, money trouble, and her parents' and in-laws' disapproval of her fecundity. Her fifth pregnancy is not only unplanned, but also unusually painful and disruptive. Harriet's doctor prescribes sedatives but finds nothing abnormal in her situation. When Ben is born, Harriet jokes that he is like "a troll or a goblin," but no one responds

Harriet and David met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go to, and both knew at once that this was what they had been waiting for. Someone conservative, old-fashioned, not to say obsolescent; timid, hard to please: this is what other people called them, but there was no end to the unaffectionate adjectives they earned. They defended a stubbornly held view of themselves, which was that they were ordinary and in the right of it, should not be criticized for emotional

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