Little Children

novel in the republic of Gilead, where utopy can’t be reached. We should add that this imagined society subjugate women by men : women’ bodies represent objects used for a « better » world. They are called handmaids and they bear barren couples’ children with the aim of rising reproduction rates and improve Gilead policy. What’s more, the narrator, Offred, had to take the role of a handmaid and this excerpt focuses on her relationship with her Commander : we found it interresting to show how a woman

2005- Chapter 3, The Beginnings: From the Top Down - p 53 => 73 The Origins of The American Revolution: Little Awareness Distance => sensitiveness toward American views decreased => English ministers had little awareness of American views + of their capacity of principled actions = English standpoint considered colonies as being meant to be subordinate = called them the Children of the English Parent The Standing Army Bute (The king’s adviser) => Permanent force of royal troops in

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

Small Things, 1996, semi-autobiographical, her childhood experiences in Ayemenem International fame, Booker Prize for Fiction Hard to talk about this book because, there's no main character, every single person has his importance I'll talk a little bit about the Indian Caste System : Brahmins : Priest, scholars, teachers, (Nehru) Kshatriyas : Warriors and rulers Vaishyas : Traders, Gandhi Sudras :Manual workers Dalits (untouchables) : unpleasant jobs, cleaning, leather tanning Pappachi

is in this riot that it sees a representative of this divinity.In its escape it meets an young girl, Latika, she quickly becomes her friend. They become the “three musketeers”. The children are accommodated in a kind of camps. The man, Maman, who directs this camp, is taken for a “saint” with the eyes of the children. But Salim realize quickly that they are in danger, but only Salim and Jamal are able to flee, by leaving Latika only. The two brothers grow, test by several manners to win money (to

friends by doing car wash’s and garage sales. She told me that when they arrived at the local airport, they were picked up by some people that lived there so they could show them where they were going to stay for the time they were there. It was a little house with no floor ( the floor was the road’s ground) and the beds were made by the people they were with. They explained to them their schedule for the next two months (they were staying there two months). They also recommended them to go to sleep

Elizabeth is pregnant represents hope for the future at the end. This mirrors certain prominent Americans who dared to stand firm in spite of the pressure being exerted during the McCarthy trials. How are “the little crazy children jangling the keys of the kingdom” ? The crazy little children refers to the girls, controlled by Abigail. The keys to the kingdom represent the power they wield over Salem, the kingdom. The jangling implies that this is an ostentatious, abusive and blatant misuse of

information about the 2 main characters of the story, Harriet and Harry Lovatt: we learn about their jobs, their physical appearances , their states of mind and the circumstances of their first meeting. 3- We gradually get acquainted with them ( little by little )even if the first approach given of them is a rather negative one ( 1st paragraph) 4- The scene takes place at an office party (end - of - year party), in the boardroom of a firm. 5- We could divide the text into 2 or 3 parts: L.1 to 28:

writing, children grew up by copying and by memorizing the word of poets while with writing, children have to grow up by classification knowledge and with pattern recognition. Now, we are living the same thing because, like he explains in the fifth paragraph, the passage between the mechanized societies and the electric age is the same duality. In fact, during the mechanical age, young people had to learn information very ordered and fragmented while today, in the electric age, children « lives in

Mister Krushchev said, "We will bury you" I don't subscribe to his point of view It'd be such an ignorant thing to do If the Russians love their children too Monsieur Khrouchtchev a dit, nous vous enterrerons Je ne souscris pas à son point de vue Ce serait une chose si ignorante à faire Si les Russes aiment leurs enfants aussi How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer's (1) deadly toy? There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence Comment est-ce que je peux sauver