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heat, the dust, the smoke of the cigars, the smell of bodies now made the air almost unbreathable. He looked for the cook, who had disappeared. D'Arrast let himself slide down along the wall and squatted, holding back his nausea" (195). Finally, the narrator informs us of D'Arrast's loathing over this "whole continent," and how it provokes nausea and a sense of nothingness: "The whole continent was emerging from the night, and loathing overcame D'Arrast. It seemed to him that he would have liked to spew

disagree with? Why? * After Raphael has finished his story, the narrator "More" (not to be simply identified with Thomas More the real-life author) weighs in with his view of what he has heard. What is the basis of his (silent) defense of Europe's nascent market economics? What does he say disparity in the distribution of wealth makes possible? Does he make a strong defense, or a flawed one? Explain. * The narrator "More" admits to being dubious about the prospects for actually achieving

in prose? Does it adhere to the condition of being strictly retrospective? Do the experiences recounted refer to Sarraute’s own individual life? Does the story encapsulate the history of the author’s personality? Is it clear that the author, the narrator and the main character are the same person and finally, does the story relate to and resolve the meaning of the author’s existence? Firstly, I argue that it cannot be justified to refer to this piece of work as a mere “récit”. Sarraute’s novel

Comprehension: 1) The narrator’s name is Helen. 2) The narrator lives in Liverpool, which is situated in Great Britain. 3) In total, there are seven children. Their names are: Fiona, Alan, Helen, Brian, Tony, Avril and Edward. 4) a) TRUE: “The four younger children […] had in August, 1939, been evacuated to the country for safety…” b) FALSE: “Some children, however, were never evacuated; they ran wild in the streets, and vandalism and theft became widespread.” c) FALSE: “At the beginning

Bartleby the scrivener The first part of the story talks about the 3 employe of the narrator, then the narator speaks about him. So he is self involved (the narator) very possecive approch of his life, the story is about himself. Rq :Advent is a religious term, the advent of christ. 1- The other caracters : Nippers (=pincette), Third & Ginger nut (=gingembre), they are dihumenazing nicknames. Nicknames areusualy given because they reveal caracter personnality, but here we don't know

the first baby to die from whooping cough in the United States for three years. This death could have been avoided if the parents who are members of an Amish community hadn’t reject using vaccines and drugs. After some historical explication, the narrator who visits an Amish village describes their conditions of living. Amish don’t want poisons put into their bodies by doctors, so polio, diphtheria, tetanus and even measles are potential killers for them. The only explication is that it was god’s

“the rigors of the pole” Line 22 “the last trip to either pole” However there in a detail which proves the precise location the scene is set in the North Pole that is to say, in the artic. Indeed in the last part of the except, the narrator mentions the Aurorae Borealis” which are northern lights that can be seen near the North en magnetic pole, natural electrical phenomena, in the South it is the ‘Aurorae Australis” There are no time references but the reader understand thaht

against rigid schools in general and against cruel teachers that the narrator or song writer met in his childhood. However, wen can infer from the double negative of «don't» and «no» that they cancel each other out, producing an affirmation and suggesting that education actually could be a good thing in developing, for example, personal reflexion. Likewise, this double negative acts as a litote in this context, as if the narrator was saying «We don't need this type of education». Therefore, the song

Compréhension de texte (36 points) Pour les inscrits en séries L, ES, S (LV1) et L, S (LV2) préparant l’écrit au baccalauréat. a) General comprehension 1. The text is a first-person narrative (it may also be an autobiographical passage. (1 point) 2. The narrator is a young Indian who is returning to his reservation after having resided in Seattle. At first, he falls into apathy and only watches television without even reading the want ads in the newspaper to find a job. However, he begins to practice basketball

the narrator has had on his own country the USA throughout his life. 2) The main character is American ; he was a journalist and a teacher. Then he is married and used to travel a lot for his jobs, indeed he went to South Africa when he was 19 to start a career as a journalist, and then he went to India for six months. He was in his sixties when he wrote the text. 3) In South Africa he understood that his country was on the wrong side indeed the USA supported the apartheid white regime which