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On Cedars, David Guterson Reading Comprehension Text 1 « Look at my face » SB p.76 Analyse the title : Hatsue is probably saying these words; she refers to her ethnic origin (to her Japanese descent). She looks Asian; her features (her traits) betray her Japanese roots (ancestry). Maybe she wants Ishmael to understand that even though she is a nisei, Japanese blood is flowing in her vein. Name the characters and indicate the topic of the extract : A dialogue between Ishmael (line 7)

the palace because of sick Harry she decides that from that point on Douglas knows about her visits at the palace. So the two do not meet often: Douglas comes home late and goes straight to bed and gets up early. One day Olivia is awake and sits with him in the breakfast room. She notices that his face became heavier and says that she wants to ask Dr. Saunders to have a look at Harry. After a short quarrel she also mentions that she wants to ask him also why she is not getting pregnant but Douglas

Joanne Rowling (Joanne, Jo) was born 31 July 1963, in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol. When she was four, they moved to Winterbourne with Joanne’s little sister, Dianne. She liked her sister, but they often fought, when they were children. So there is a scar above Di’s eyebrow since Joanne threw her by a battery. Jo started the school in this town and her elder headmaster inspired her in the future, when she created Albus Dumbledore’s character in the Harry Potter fiction. The Rowling family’s neighbor

repressed and full of hypocrisy. Cruelty masked with propriety. Mrs P. a caricature (or is she really?) of Victorian respectability. Her Christianity is surface, she fears Hell, but note how patronising she is to the vicar, who is her social inferior. Mr Forsythe suggests she employs Sarah Woodruff as a companion,out of malice or real compassion for sarah? Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Sarah Woodruff's history. Note that she has not as far as we know, had an affair with the Frenchman, Mr.Varguennes, but has

February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama. When she was young, she took care of her grandmother and her mother because they were ills. She was a black seamstress who worked in shop.She was an activist and she worked with her husband, Raymond, in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP's) programs. Rosa Parks sees the energy of young people as a real force for change. It is among her most treasured themes of human priorities as she speaks to young people of all ages at schools

the weakness of Janice. In line 1-2, instead of looking after her baby who her “face goes red”, she thinks of her mother who come to “ruin her day”. Then she decides to bath the baby in order to show her clean “when mother comes”. With regard to housework, Janice is quickly beyond. The “clothes” are “on top of the television set”. She “takes” them and “drops them into the toilet on the top of diaper”. She “drops to her knees” in order to pick up things… The succession of tasks shows us that it is not

a dark tie, and his skin was the deep color of the bittersweet chocolate her mother used for baking. A woman slid from the passenger side, her pumps clicking against the pavement as she touched the ground. Like her husband, she was smartly dressed, her shirtwaist dress crisply pressed, and as she stood beside him she looked up at the house with an expression of dismay. He smiled and touched her arm, then turned towards the bed of the lorry and called out something. From amid the boxes and bundles

February, 1851 was an American author of short stories and novels. She is considered to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. Her important short stories was “Desiree’s Baby”, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Storm”. She died on 22 August, 1904. Now, after presenting the author, I will talk about the summary of “The Story of an Hour”. This short story is about an hour in the life of the main character, Mrs. Millard. She is afflicted with a heart problem. Bad news has come about

was one of twelve children. She is a hardworking girl and does everything his father orders. She has for example to walk for miles alone in the desert in search of water or she had to pay attention of the animal while they were drinking or grazing. At the age of five her life changes completely; she becomes subject of female circumcision without any anesthetic or antiseptic, this procedure was very painful for her but she wanted to have it because after the circumcision she becomes a very women and

negative impact on people; especially people who are overweight. If we consider an American woman buying a tabloid magazine, she will find a variety of pictures of her favorite model in the magazine. The woman in the tabloid has a perfect body, is stunningly beautiful, all thanks to the latest diet she has undertaken. The caption of the article reads in bold letters: “She lost 12 lbs in two weeks”. The woman reading the article may think “Wow, this is great” at first, but is it really? The article