When Love Takes Over

Nabokov are two opposite yet parallel stories. The Reader follows Michael Berg from the age of fifteen as he falls in love with an older woman whereas in Lolita Humbert Humbert is obsessed with none other than Lolita. When fifteen year old Michael Berg is struck down by hepatitis, he is helped home by Frau Schmitz (who he then knows as Hanna), a stranger from a nearby neighborhood. When he recovers, he visits her with flowers to thank her for assisting him. He is fascinated by her even though she happens

York for the first time 1890. In those days, air travel didn’t exist. It took three weeks to sail from France to America by boat. When she left home, she felt very excited. Imagine! she was going abroad on her own. For the occasion, she wore / was wearing her best clothes. Her parents came to Le Havre to say goodbye. All around her people were kissing and hugging. When the boat sailed off, she could see that her mother was crying and her father shouting last minute recommendations. 2. Phrases traduites

this factory until I find a better job. 4. Look! It _______________ (snow). 5. Can you hear those girls? What _______________ (they/ta1k) about? 6. _______________ (you/know) Helen? 7. We _______________ (never/go) to work by tube. It is too busy. 8. When I'm in Paris I _______________ (usually/stay) in the Hotel du Pont, but this time I _______________ (stay) in the more expensive Hotel Notre Dame. 9. Ruth _______________ (be) a vegetarian. She _______________ (not/eat) meat or fish. 10. My father

Jane's story is one of the quiet triumph of virtue and the power of the human heart over circumstance. Orphaned as a baby, young Jane Eyre was sent to live with her paternal Uncle Reed and his wife, at Gateshead Hall. Though her Uncle promised to raise Jane as one of his own, he soon died as well, and Jane was raised by her resentful Aunt. Preferring to spend her time among her own spoiled brood - Georgiana, John Jr and Eliza - Aunt Reed banished Jane to the indifferent care of servants, and was

have the most resolve in keeping the protest alive. Down the street a ways another mother sits with her 9-year-old daughter. Her name is Ananya Thongyoi. She says she came to the protest because she wants justice. "Thailand has double standards. I love Thaksin he has done good for the poor people." The Red Shirts essentially see the current government as elitist and not looking out for the interest of the rural poor and working class people. But what about the safety of her little girl, named Pim

early life appeared secure enough, it was touched by tragedy. Her cousin, Eliza Hancock, married a French nobleman, who was arrested and guillotined on his return to Paris soon after the French Revolution. Her aunt, Mrs. Leigh Perrot, was arrested when falsely accused of stealing a card of lace, and suffered eight months imprisonment with the threat of the death penalty, before she was able to prove her innocence. On her father's retirement, in 1801, the family moved to Bath. Jane's years at Bath

critically observe her reaffirm that she ‘remained very still, with a little vacant smile on her lips, only her eyes shifting uneasily from side to side’. The women continue with various nasty comments of disapproval of the bride’s child and rumours of her love-life. Frau B remains quite indifferent to the conversation and observes her husband, who eventually stands up to make a speech. The response to the speech was raucous laughter on the part of all the guests. Frau B did not find it funny and as the

sea. The storm scares all of the nobleman to abandon ship, fearing it split in half. When the storm subsides, the exiled Duke Prospero and his daughter Miranda appear on the island they have inhabited for 12 years. Miranda tells him she saw the ship crack in the storm, but Prospero calms her, explaining it was a magical illusion he created. He explains he was once Duke of Milan, but his brother Antonio took over when he began deeply studying literature, eventually teaming with Alonso to banish Prospero

only a brief response. He takes a nap and then returns to work for the rest of the afternoon. After work, Meursault runs into his neighbor, Salamano, who is on the stairs with his dog. The dog suffers from mange, so its skin has the same scabby appearance as its elderly master’s. Salamano walks the dog twice a day, beating it and swearing at it all the while. Raymond Sintes, another neighbor, invites Meursault to dinner. Raymond is widely believed to be a pimp, but when anyone asks about his occupation

Exercise 1 a. 23 April is also St. George’s Day, the patron saint of England. b. No, his father was a tradesman. c. He went to the local grammar school in Stratford. d. Shakespeare was eighteen when he got married. e. He had three children. f. He went to follow his career in London. g. James I was King when Shakespeare was with the King’s Men. h. Shakespeare retired to Stratford. i. Shakespeare died on the 23 April, 1616. j. The first published edition of his plays was known as the ‘First Folio’.