The Fifth Child Passage 3

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

reading of the text is important. Pay attention to the punctuation/ pronunciation of the phonemes/ intonation/ stressing of the words The introduction 1- Give the source of the extract “The passage I’m going to present is taken from the novel The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. It was published in 1988.” 2- Make a brief summary of the novel. 3- Situate the passage in its context. (information about the plot at that stage of the novel/ what happened earlier in the text/ Give all the necessary

The Fifth child, passage 2 Passage 2: From page 14, l.8:”on the afternoon the house became theirs” to page 16,l.15:”This grip said ,Be quiet.” A. Words Bough: branche Glisten: briller Chilly: frisquet Rug,carpet: tapis Lock: verouiller # unlock Thud: battre à tout rompre Capacious : vaste Previous : précedent Owner : propriétaire Pull down : abattre Accomodate :loger, contenir Settee :canapé Sprawl : s’affaler Landing : palier Marvel at : s’émerveiller Smallish : tout petit Suburbia : banlieue Attic

WORKSHEET N°1 – FROM THE BEGINNING TO PAGE 4 (….David was an architect) 1) LANDMARKS. 1- This passage is the very beginning of the Fifth Child. It is the introductory scene. The first pages of a novel are very important because they present/ introduce the main characters and the setting of the action/ the plot. They also set the atmosphere of the plot. 2- The beginning of the fifth child brings us information about the 2 main characters of the story, Harriet and Harry Lovatt: we learn

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 it is the introduction

‘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 passage. 1. A description of the party and the people there, including a comment on what people think

DORIS LESSING “ The fifth child” ( p 13-16 “ If I’m pregnant), Harper Perennial Intro: up to you / put this passage into its context recall what happened in the first extract studied The question we shall try to answer: will the house Harriet and David have found be their home sweet home, the house of their dreams? 1) LONGING FOR A HOUSE AND A KINGDOM a)David’s love for his room and his desire to find a new one: -elements we have in the passage just before this one ( p 12) + David’s wish

WORKSHEET 3 The scene takes place in Harriet and David's home, first in their bedroom, cf l. 5-6: ”It's this room, I swear it's a baby-maker, l. 30: ”Harriet lay weeping on her bed ...” and l. 33: “He sat on his side of the bed...” and finally in the kitchen”, cf l.60: “She sat at the head of the table-the position near the stove-” Soon after they have bought their big Victorian House, Harriet is pregnant. She & David are going to announce her pregnancy when David's

Introduction The propensity of human beings to form partnerships and establish family units is almost universal, and often in establishing these marriage partnerships, some form of ceremony is carried out. Further, there are remarkable similarities of thought, ideas, and symbolism across cultures in these ceremonies. The ceremony is usually a public event so that the community to which the couple belong can witness the union—this public aspect of the ceremony is very important in marriage throughout

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