Nowhere Boy

O. Henry's best volumes of short stories are: The Four Million (1909), Options (1909), Roads of Destiny (1909), The Trimmed Lamp (1910), Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million (1910), Whirligigs (1910), and Sixes and Sevens (1911). "Nowhere is there anything just like them. In his best work--and his tales of the great metropolis are his best--he is unique. The soul of his art is unexpectedness. Humor at every turn there is, and sentiment and philosophy and surprise. One never may be

have the time and the energy, so you could put it to use! Ross: I’m sorry, but who said we have the time? You’re trying to make us do things we don’t want to do. We said no, didn’t we? Are you deaf or something? Jim: Don’t take that tone with me, my boy! Show some respect for your elders. You know, I’m really disappointed in you. Your parents wouldn’t be proud of you if they knew… Shawn: OK that’s enough! Just get back to your crossword puzzles and let us enjoy life, all right? • Demander aux groupes

ennuyer -(to) born : naitre -(to) borrow : emprunter -boss : patron -both : l'un au l'autre, les deux -bother : déranger -bottle : bouteille -bottom : fond, bas -bound : obligé ou certain de faire -bowl : bol, cuvette, saladier -box : boite -boy : garçon (boyfriend : petit ami) -brain : cerveau -branch : branche, succursale -brand : marque (to brand : marquer) -brave : courageux, brave -bread : pain -break : casser (au sens large) verbe irrégulier -breakfast : petit dej -breast : sein

question gender roles and the importance of tradition. We are reminded of the fascination with outer space, the future, technology, artificial intelligence (Thunderbirds, 2001: A Space Odyssey), and the cultural revolution of the late Sixties (Nowhere Boy, If…). 40 • U N IT 2 c. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is a classic movie and a must-see that you should put at the top of your films-to-watch list. Don’t be put off by the particularly long running time (161 minutes) – you won’t

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies: résumé et analyse. Overture. Summary. The narrator leaves Westchester to Brooklyn, to die there. He had lived in Brooklyn when he was a little boy (before the age of three), but doesn’t remember anything. He rents an apartment near Prospect Park. He wants nothing but being alone and quiet. He has sold his house after his divorce, and so has no problem with money. He was an insurance agent, but doesn’t know what to do now. His daughter Rachel (a researcher

very ill to show one's bile. Let us speak of something else.--Joseph, the stock-taking is done." "Yes, monsieur, and the dividend is one of the best you have ever made." "Do not use new-fangled words. Say the profits, Joseph. Do you know, my boy, that this result is partly owing to you? And I do not intend to pay you a salary any longer. Madame Guillaume has suggested to me to take you into partnership.--'Guillaume and Lebas;' will not that make a good business name? We might add, 'and Co

encompassing him with difficulties which he is not man enough to rely on justice and truth as means to encounter, but has recourse, for help out of them, to falsehood and wrong. And so, says Plato, this poor creature is bent and broken, and grows up from boy to man without a particle of soundness in him, although exceedingly smart and clever in his own esteem. One cannot refuse to admire the artist who draws these pictures. But we say to ourselves that his ideas show the influence of a primitive and

(1956) R. K. Narayan: The Guide (1958) Attia Hosain: Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) Anita Desai: Games at Twilight (1978) Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (1988) Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine (1989) Salman Rushdie: East, West (1994) Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy (1994) Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (1996) Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997) Michael Ondaatje: Anil’s Ghost (2000) vii 3 11 27 47 59 75 87 99 111 129 147 155 165 177 vi Contents 14 15 Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies

about that? CINDY That I’m crazy and I’m not funny. DEAN I don’t know if you’re not funny, tell me a joke. CINDY So there’s a child molester and a little boy walking into the woods. The child molester and the little boy keep walking further and further and its getting darker and darker and they’re going deeper and deeper into the woods and the little boy looks up at the child molester and he says, “gee mister I’m getting scared!” And the child molester looks down at him and says, “you think you’re scared

their fame. More generally speaking, the movie may deal with the entertainment industry. 2. At the beginning, the girls seem impatient to perform in public, slightly disappointed probably: “we started singing at the age of 12 and still we get nowhere.” Then they get more and more excited as they get a contract of 100 dollars a week. They become more and more successful (they are surrounded by lots of paparazzi) until they are offered to have their own act and be stars on their own right.