Ua LT Oe t ow a @ LINK UP TO YOU! Extensive reading Things D.H. Lawrence Neither here nor there Bill Bryson TextoThings, D. H. Lawrence About the author Before reading activities Things While reading activities After reading acuvities Before reading activities About the author Part! While reading activities Part2 After reading activities mal att Pa Be Cul)ABOUT THE AUTHOR 1. Read the author's biography and write down when and whyhe lived in the identified places and whathe did there. D.H.LAWRENCE Barly Lite Aathor DH. Lawrence was bom Davia Herbert Law September 11,1885, on the Haggs Tarm in the small mining town of Eastwond, Nottinghamchive, England, Asa child, DH, Lawrence often struggled to fit in with other boys He was physically frail and frequently susceptibleto illness. However, he wag an excellant student and, n 1897, at the age of 12, he became the first boy in Eastwood's history to wina scholarship to Nottingham High School In 190 hebegan ‘workingas astudent teacher atthe British Schootin Eastwood. Adulthood In the fall of1900, Lawrence left Eastwood to attend the University College of Nottingham to obtain bie teal while story competition for ‘peertificats he won a short “an Enjoyable Christmas: ‘APrelude", which was published in the Nottingham ‘ Guasdéan in 1907, In 1908, having tecesved bis teaching certificate, Lawrence took a teaching post atan elementary school in the London suburb of Croydon, Around the san an old friend from college named Loalee Burrows, time Lawrence became engagod to Loveand Books However, in the spring of 2, Lawrence's life changed suddenly and trrevocably when he went to visit an old Nottingham professor, Ernest ‘Weekley, to solicit advice about his future and his writing, During his visit Lawrence fell desperately in love with Weekley's wife, Priega von. Richthoien. He immediately resclved to break off his engagement, quit teaching, and try to makea living asa writer, and, by May of that year, he had persuaded Frieda to leave het family. The couple ran off to Germany, later travelling to Italy While travelling with his new love, Lawrence continued to wiiteat afuriouspace Later in1933, Lawrence published his novel Senisand Li considered ets, The novels masterplece, as well as one of the greatest English novels of the 20"*centary, DH, Law von Richtofen soon returned to England, where they martied on July 13,1914 In 2015 he published another novel, The Rainbow, which was quite sexually nd the nity.Feeling betrayed by his own country butunable to travel abroad because af World War I, Lawrence retreated to Commwall, at the far southwestern edge of Great Britain, However, the local government considered the presence of a controversial writer and his German wife sonear the Coast tobea wartime security threat.andit banished him from Cornvvall in 1817. Lawzence spent the next two years moving among frionde! apartments, After the War in 1019, atter Worle Wa! 1had finally ended, Lawrence once again jeparted for jtaly There, he spent two highly enjoyable vears travelling around and writing, 111920, herevised and published Womenin Love He also edited a series of short storlas that he had written during the War,whuch were published under the nite My England and Other Stories in 1922 Determined to fulfill alifelone dream of travelling to America, in February 1922 Lawrence left Europe, By the end of the yearhe landed inthe United States, settling in Taos, New Mexico. Excepting brief trips to Mexico, New Yorkand England, Lawrence lived pelmarily on ranch in New Mexico until 1927, Late Years Having fallen ll with tuberculosis, Lawrence retuned to Italy in 1027, Theve, in his last arest cxeati burst, he wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover, his best-known and most infamous novel, Published in 1928, the book wasbanned in the United States until 1059, and in, England anttl 1060, dua ta tts graphite content, The allowed publication of Lacy Chattetley's Lover is considered a turning point in the history of freedom of expression and the open discussion of sexin popular culture. Increasingly hobbled by his tuberculosis, Lawience wrote very little near tha and ofhis if, D. H. Lawrence died on March 2,020, atthe age of 44,in Vence, France Heis now widely consideredas one of the great modernist English- language writers and one of the most refined and revolutionaryEnglish ‘writers of the arty 20° centary, wensbographycom (acresseoibecenbel 201, 2. Find out from the biography of D.H. Lawrence: ‘a. what 0H. Laurance was tke as a childs 'b. what his first job was: what hs fst iterary achievement was d.howhe met h ite: how his Ife changed after he met Frieda f. iPhlsbook The Rainbow was well-eceved: why he was banned from Comwal sno hat he cle in italy in the 19205 1. how longhe stayedin the US: J. why his Book Lady Chattariey’s Lover was banned in tha USA and the uk; ik, the turning point caused by the publication of the book3. D.H. Lawrence's most famous books have been adapted to the cinema. Search the internet for information about the alot of some of those adaptations.and share your findings with the class. BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES X ‘Tounderstand the story better, work in small groups anddo some research about the following historical/culturalaspects. Youmayask your history teacher for help, 8. The indian thought dd. lnpressianisin 8: Es «: Idealiem ve Rens While you are reading the text, mark the couple's journey along thelr lives and give each part atitle consisting of the name of a place (country/eity/reaion),Things, 8.H. Lawrence Things.0.H Lawence Co ee ee < itemonay Not nt tonto: ban and rk art at ok Renaissance, rot in any later or shallowar period Therefore, the two idealsts, who were married in New Haven, sailed at once 1 Parte: Paris of the old dayt Thay hadl 4 studio apartment on the Boulevard Montparnasse, and they became real Parisians, in the old, delightful serse, not in the modern, vulgar. It was the shimmer® of the pure impressionists, Monet and his followers the world seen in terms of pure light. light broken and unbroken, How lovely! How lovely! How lovely the nights, the river, the morrings in the old streets and by the flower-salls and the » kegen-eyed: com alhar persplcaz * fountain-head: o:igem sorfeiture: com aperda simmer: fraea luminesidade dooksstalls the afternoons up on Montmartre or in the Tuileries, the evenings on the boulevards! 10 ‘They both painted, but not desperately. Art had not taken them by the throat, and they di not take Art ‘by the throat. They painted: that’s all. They knew people nico people, tpossibic, though one had to take them mixed, And they ware happy. Yet it seems as ithuman Jheings must sat their claws insomething, To be ‘Tree’ to be “living a fulland beautiful Me" you rust, alast be attacheé to something. A “full and beautiful life" means a tight attachment tosometning ~ at least itis 50 for al idealists ~ or else a certain boredom supervenes: there isa certain waving of loose ends upon the ait lke the waving, yearning tendrils of the vine that spreadand rotate, seeking something to clutcht, something up which to climb towards the necessary sun, Finding notuing, the vine can only trail? hall-futflled, upor the ground, ‘And human beings are all vines. But especially the idealist He isa vine. and he needs te clutch and climb, And he despises the man who is a mere potato, or turnip, or lump of wood Our idealists were frightfully'® happy. but they were all the time reaching ‘out for something to cotton on to! At firs, Paris was enough. They explored Paris thoroughly, And they learned French til they almost felt the French People, they could speak itso glibiy'= supervenes: aparece suige © taghetunty: teemendamente tendrils ramos ® eotton onto: agarrar-se clutetaganrar glibly: Nuentemente tui: rasteiarThings. BLM. Lawrence Soll, you korow, you never talk Franch with your soul keeant ba done, And ‘hough it's very thriling, at fist, telking in French to clever Frenchmen ~ they seem so much cleverer than oneself ~ tl in the long run, its not satisfying The endlessly clever materialism of the Frexch leaves you cold, in the end, ives sence of barrannass!? and incompatibility with true New England depth. So our two idealists felt ‘They turned away from France ~ but ever so gently France had disappointed them. Weve loved it, ard weve got a great deal out of it But alter a white, a considerable while ~ several years, in fact ~ Pars leaves one feeling disappointed. It hasn't quite got what one wants” “But Pars fant France” “No, perhaps not France is quite diferent from Paris. And France is lovely ~ quite lovely, But to us, though we love itt doesn’ say a great deal” So, when the War came, the ideatsts moved to taly, And thay loved Italy, ‘They found it beautiful, and more poignant* than France. It ssemed much nearer to ihe New England conception of teauly: something pure, and full ot sympathy without the materialism and the eyniciem of the Franch The two idealists seemed to breathe their own true air in Italy ‘And in aly, much more than in Paris, they felt ‘hey could thril! to the teachings of the Buddha, They entered ne swelling steam of modem, Buddhistic emotion, and they read the books. and they practised meditation, ard they deliberately set themselves to eliminate from their own Souls greed, pain, and sorrow. % poignant:intensa © trite vibear Things. D-H Lawrence ‘They eid nt realise ~ yet ~ that Budaha's very eagerness! to hee himself from pain and sorrow isin itself a sort of greed*”. No, hey dreamed of a Perfect word, trom which all greed, ané nearly al pain, and a great deal of sorrow, were eliminated But America entered the War, $0 the wo idealists had to Nelp. They aie Jhospital werk And though their experience made thern realise more than ever that greed, pain, and sorrow should be eliminated from the world, nevertheless, the Buddhism didn't emerge very triumphant from the long crsis. Somehow, somewhere, n some part of themselves, they felt that greed, pain ard sorrow would never he eliminated, because most peonle don't care about eliminating them, and never will care. Our idealists were far too Western. tothint of abandoning allthe world to damnation while they saved their two selves. Ifthe wNiole wide world was not going to be saved, tiey. personally, Were not so very Keen on being saved just by themselves. No, it would beso lonesome" They were New Englanders, so i! must be all or nothing. Greed, pain and sorrow rust either be eliminated from all the world, or else what was the use of eliminating them from onesel? No use at all! One was justa victim, (.) They were again “disappointed” Dut they never admstted it. Indian thought’ had let them down, But they never complained, Even io ore another they never said a word, But they were disappointed, faintly but deeply disillusioned, and they both krew it, But the knowledge was tacit. And they stil had go much im their ves, Thoy atillhad Haly ~ doar Italy. And they still hhad freedom, the priceless treasure, And they stil had so mmuch “beauty, About the fullness" of their lives they were rot quite so sure. They had one litte boy, whom they loved as parents should love their chidrer, but whom they wieely refrained from fastening upon, to bud Uheirhvee on him No: no, they must ive their own Ives! They stilfhad strength of mind to know that But they were now no longer so very young, ‘Twenty-five and twenty-sever had become tourty-five and thirty-seven, And though they had had a very wonderful time in Europe. ard though they still loved lay - dear aly! yer | sagerness: ania greed: ganancia lonesome: golitacle ® fullness: plenitudeThings, 8. Lewrence Things 0) .Lawrence they were disappointed. They had got a fot out oft oh a very great deal ‘ndecdl Stil ithadr't given them quite, rot quite, what they had expected, Burope was lovely, butt was dead. Living in Ewope. you were ving on vs tho past. And Europoans, with all heir euperfieil charm, wore not really charming, They were materialistic, they had no real soul. They just did not understand the inner urge*® of the split, because the inrer urge was dead ‘n ther; they were all survivals, Thera, that was the truth about Europeans ‘hey were survivals, with no more getting ahead in them |.) Wo Tho two idealists had lived in Europe, lived on Furope andon European Me and European things as vines in an everlasting vineyard. ‘They had made their home here: ahome such as you could never make in America, Their watchword=*had beer “beauty” They had rerted, the lst four years, the second floor of an old palazzo on the Arno, and here they had all 185. their things" And they derived a profound satisfaction from their apartment the lofty, silent, ancient rooms with windows on the river, with glistening, dark-red floors, and the beautiful furniture thatthe idealists had “picked up’ Yes, unknown to themselves, the lives of the idealists had been runring with a fievce swiftness"? horzontally, all the time. They had become tense, 150 flerce hunters of ‘things’ for their home. While their soul was climbing up tothe sun of ole European culture o old Indian, thought, their passions were 16s nunning horizontally, clutching at "things" OF course, they did not 1 angeranseio,desela * watehword:lema siftness: velacitade buy the things forthe things’ sakes, but for the sake of beauty’ They locked Upon their home as a place entirely furnished by loveliness, not by “things” at all Valerie had some very lovely curtairs at the windows of thelong salotto, looking on the river: curtains of quser®* anciant material that looked like finely knitted sik, most beautiully faded down from vermiion and orange and gold and black, o a sheer soft glow. Valerie hardly ever carne into the salotto without mentally fling on her knees before the curtains. “Chartras!” she said. "To me they are Chartres (And Melillo naver turned and looked at his sixieenth-century Venetian book-case, with its two or three dozen of Cchoice books, without feeling his marrow stir in his bores (. Stil, a couple of New England idealists cannot tive merely on the bygone** gory of tnetr tumiture, Atleas:, one couple could not They got used to ne marvellous Bologna cupboard. they got used to the wonderful Venetian bbook-case, and the books, and the Siena curtains and bronzes, and the lovely sofas and side-tables and chairs they had “picked up" in Paris. Oh, they had been picking things up since the frst day they landed in Europe. And they ware still at it. Iis the last interest Europe can offer to an cutsider: orto an insider either When people came, and were thriled by the Melville interior, then Valerie and Erasmus felt hey had not lved in vain: that they stil were feo fe eee ee eerie eet eee Renaltsance Florentine lietature, and Valerie was attending to the aoartment and inthe long nours after lurch and inthe long. usualy very cod an oppressive everingsin the ancient palazzo. then the halo did from around the fumuie, ard Ue Uiags became tings umps of alle hat us stood there or hung there, ad infinitum, and sid nothing: and Valerie and Erasmus amos: hated them, The glow of beauty ke every other gow. dies down unless is fed. The idealists ee... — Sut they had got them. And salen: aaias the sad factis, things that glow | “* Steet: estiamhe » bysor vieidly while you're getting * desuttorily: sem propastio ou objetivo them go almost quite cold nator gions 1sThings, 0.1 Lawrence alter a year or two, Unless, of course, people envy you them very much and the museums ate pining or trem. Andithe Melviles' things’ though very 00d, wers not quils as good as that So the glow gradually went out of everything. out of Europe, out of aly ~ "the Italians are dears" ~ even out of that marvellous apartment on the ‘Arno. “Why. if Thad this apartment I'd never, never even want io go out of oor Itstoo lovely and perfect” That was something, of course, to hear that ‘Ard yet Valeria and rasmus went out ef doors: they even went out ta get away from its ancient, cold-floored. stone-heavy silence and dead dignity, “We're living o* the past, you know, Dick; said Valerie to her husband. ‘She called him Dick ‘They were grimly" hanging on. They dd net like to give in. They ald net like to own up that they were through, For twelve years, row, they had been “iree” people, living a “full and beautiful life” And America for twelve years had been tnetranatnema™, he Sodom and Gomorran of industrial maveriaism. Iewasrt easy to own that youwere “tirough* They hated to admit that they wanted to go back, But at last, reluctantly, they decided to go, “for the boy's sake" “We can't bear toleave Europe. But Peteris an American, so he had better lookat America while he's young” The Melvilles had an entirely English accent and mannor ~ almost ~a lite lslian and Froneh hero ard there ‘They left Europe behind, but they took as much of it along with them as possible, Several van-loads, as @ matter of fact All hose adorable and ‘replaceable ‘things’ And all arrived in New York, idealists, child, and the huge ‘bulk of Europe they had lugged atong™ Vatonohaddreamedota pleasant rere srlmly: deaagradavelmente ‘ nathema: maldigae tugged along atrastage apartment, perhaps on Riverside Drive, where it was not so expensive as east of Fit Avenue, and where at their Things. 0.H Lawence ‘wonderful things would look marvellous, She and Erasmus house-hunted. But, alas! their ineome was quite under three thousand dollars a year. They 200 found - well, everybody knows what they found. Two small rooms and 3 kitchenette, and dont let us unpack a thing! ‘The chunke= of Europe which they had bitten off wert into a warehouse, atfity dollars a month. And they satin two small rooms and a kitchenette, ard wondered why they'é done it 2s Erasmus of course, ought to get a job. This was what was written on the wall, and what they both pretended not to see. But it had been the strange, vvague threat that the Statue of Liberty had always held over themn: "Thou ‘shall get a job!” Erasmus had the tickets, as they say A scholastic cater was stil possible for him. He had taken his exams brillantly at Yale, and had kept 2 up his researches” al the time he had been in Europe. ‘But both he and Valerie shuddered”. A scholastic career! The scholastic \worla! The American scholastic werla! shudaer upon shuader! Give up tnetr Treedom. thair full and beautiful life? Never! Never! Erasmus would 2h de forty next birhday, ‘The “things” remained in warchouse, Valorie went t look at them. It cost hata dollar an hour, ard horrid pangs2®, The “things” 22, poor things, looked a bit snabty"* ard wretched?” in that warehouse, chunks Bocadio, pedago bitrenott:arrancade shuddered: ea % pengeanguetioe » shabby: gastas © wretched: estragadas "Things, 0.4. Lawrence However, New York was not all America. There was the great clean West So the Melvilles went West, with Feter, but without the things. They tried wing the simple life in the mountains. But doing their own chores became almost a rightmare “Things” are all very well tolook at, but it’s awful handling them, even when they're beautiful Tobe the slave of hideous things. to keep a stove going. cook meals, wash dishes. carry water. and clean floors: pure horror of sordid ante! Inthe cabin on the mountains Valerie dieamed of Florence, the lost apartment; and her Bologna cupboard and Louis Quinze chairs, atove all, her “Chartres” curtains, stored in New York ~ and cesting fifty dollars amonth, Arilionaire friend came to the rescue, offering them a cettage on the Ccalfornian coast ~ California! Where the new goulis to be born in man. With {oy the idealists moved alittle farther west, catching at new vine-props of hore. ‘And finding them straws! The millionaire cottage was perfectly equiped. was perhapsas labour-savingly® perfectas is possible: electric heating and cooking, a whiie-ard-pearl-enamelles” kitchen, nothing to make dirt except the human being himealf. In an hour er zo the idealists had get through their chores. They were ‘free’ ~ free tohear the great Pacific pounsing the coast, and to feel a new soul filing their bodies. Alas! the Pacific pounded the coast with hideous brutalty, brute force itsef! Ard the new soul instead of sweetly stealing into their bodies, seemed only meanly*? to gnaw! the old soulout of their bodies. To feel you are under the fist of the most blind and crunching brute force: to fel that your cherished idealis’s coulis being gnawed out of you, and only tritation let in place of it: well, it snit goo enough, labour-savinsly:paupartrabalho ** meanly:com mesauinhez © gnamelled: lacada © gnaw: correer,atormentar ‘Things. 0.H. Lawrence After about rine months the idealists departed from the Californian west Ithad been a great experience; they were glad to have had it. But, in the long run, the West was not the place for them, and they knew it. No, the people ‘who wanted new souls had better get them. They, Valerie and Erasmus o Malvlla, weuld tka to develop the old soul alitle further. Anyway, they had not felt any influx of new soul on the Californian coast. On the contrary. Se, with a eight holon their matoral capital they returned to Maccachurotte and paid a visit to Valerie's parents, taking the boy along. The grandparents ‘welcomed the child - poor expatriated boy ~ and were rather cold to Valerie, 25 but really cold to Erasmus, Valerie's mother defintely said o Valerie one day that Erasmus ought to tale a jab, 2o that Valerie could live decently Valerie hhaughily** reminded her mother of the beautiful apartment on the Arno, and the ‘wonderful" things instore in New York, and of the “marvellous and satistying lle" she and Erasmus ha led. Valerie's mother said that she didn't ‘10 think her daughiar's if Ieoked so very marvellous at present: homeless, with a husband idle“ at the age of forty a child to educate, and a dwinding* capital looked the reverse of marvellous to her. Let Erasmus take some post inone of the unversities. “What post? Wha university” interrupted Valerte "5 “That could be found, considering your father’s connections and Erasmus’ qualifications. replied Valerie's mother “And you could get all your valuable things out of store, ard have a really lovely home, which everybody in America would be proud to visit. As itis, your furniture is eating up your income, and you are living lke rats in a hole, with nowhere to go to: ‘This was very true, Valerie was beginning to fine for a home, with her “things” Of course, she could have sold her furniture fora substantial surn, But oo nothing would have induced her to. © haughtily: orgulhosameate © Se: inativo ‘Whatever else passed away —religions, “ gurindling: dirainuto 2 cultures, continents, and hopes ~ ValerieThings,0.H.tawrence would never part from the “things” which she and Erasmus had collected with such passion. To these she was nailed. But she and Erasmus stl would riot give up that freedom, that full ana beautiful ife they had so believed in, Erasmus cursed America, He did not 280 want to earn aliving. He parted*? for Europe. ‘Leaving the boy in charge of Valerie's parenis, the two idealists once more set Off for Europe, in New York they pate two dollars and looked fer a brief, bitter hour at their things” They sailed “student class” ~ hat &. thie. Their income now was less than two thousand dollars, instead of three, And they 285, made straight for Paris ~ cheap Paris. ‘They found Europe, this tme, a complete faure."We have returned tke eogs to our vomit said Erasmus; “but the vornit has staleds® in the meantime." He found he couldnt stand Europe It iritated every nerve im his body He hated America, too. But America at least was adarn'” sight better 200 than this miserable, dirt eating continent; which was by no means cheap any more, either. Valerie, with her heart on her things ~ she had really burned to get them out of that warehouse, where they had stood now for three years, eating up (wo thousand dollers ~ wrote to her mother she thought Erasmus would 185 come back i he could get some suitable work in America, Erasmus, ina state of frustration bordering on rage and insanity, just went round Italy in a poverty-stricken fashion, his coat-cufls trayed, hating everything with intensity And whan a post was found for him in Cleveland University, to teack French, italian, and Spanish literature, his eyes grew more beady’, ® and his long, queer face grew sharper and more ratiike with utter baffled fury. He vias forty, and the job was upon him, © panted:desejava ardentemente © frayed:eslarrapados has staled: apodreceu ~ beady: pequenos Things. 0.4. tawrencs “Lthink you'd better accept, dear. You don't care for Europe any longer: As you say Its dead an finished. They offer us a house on the College It. and mother says there's oom in forall ow tnirgs. [mink we'a Deter cable Accept S$ He glowered at her tke a cornered rat One almost expected to see rat's ‘whiskers twitching atthe sides of the sharp nose “Shall send the cablegram" she asked “Send it” he blurted ‘And she wert out and sent it n0 Hewasa changed man, quieter, much less liritabie, A toad was off nim, He was inside the Or aaniel GROSS cage telegrama* WHILE READING ACTIVITIES. But when he looked at the furnaces of Cleveland, vast and like the greatest of black forests, with red-and-white hot cascades of gushing metal, and tiny 1. Fillin the following table with information about the main characters, si} gnomes of men, ard temic noises, gigantic, he said to Valerie: Erasmus and valerie. “say what you Ite, Valarie, thi is the biggest thing the modern world hae to show" ‘And when they were in their up-to-date litte house on the college lot of Etonrnus: Cleveland University, and that woe-begone debris™ of Europe ~ Bologna vate 0 cupboard, Venice bookshelves, Ravenna bishop's chair, Louis Quinze side- lables, ‘Chartres’ curtains, Siena bronze lamps ~ all were arrayed®®, and all Jooked perfectly out of keeping, and therefore very impressive; and when the 2. Gothrough the 2° paragraphand find out: 1. the two words they ruled therr ves by, ‘dealsts had had a bunch of gaping™ people in, and Erasmus had showed aff 1 he eins teyrads miotient in his beet European manrar but stil quite cordial andl American, andl Valerio . tha reason they link beauty’ to Europe ns had been most ladylike, but forall that “we prefer America then Erasmus d. the art period that s the symbol of beauty, said, looking at her with the queer sharp eyes of a rat Feiner be morta Atlant Sp Apc eles x coset! Paris (I.17-67) ‘ebster — what” 3. Find two idiomatic expressions that mean: “Byary ime" she said, with satisfaction a. they were not avid passonate painters; sso And he peered at her. He was in the cage: butt was safe inside. And she, 'b. people need to have commitments for which tolive for evidently, was her real saIfat last, She had got the geods Vet round his nose war a ques. evi, scholastic look, of pure 23s scepticism, But he iked lobster 4. With the help of the text explain the metaphor "And human beings are allvines” (ine 42) ‘debris: miserévets destrogos & arrayed: expostos © gapingrdeolnar embashacago 2 2S, Why did France disappoint the Melvilles? Reasoning link: How would you describe an idealist way of ifeif we take the couple as an example? Italy (II. 68-189) 6. Answer the fotiowing questions. 61. Describe italy asthe couple saw itwhen they moved, 6.2 What ean you learn fiom the “teachings af Buddha’ alife philosophy that they both followed? (2 paragraph) 16.3 Explainhow the Warturned thom away from the Buddhist philosophy. 6.4 What endes up disappointing them about Europe and the Europeans? 6.5 Describe the house where they lived in Italy 6.6 Is there acontradiction between the principles they ruledthet lives ‘by and the house you have just described? Explain 6:7 What excuse dl they use to decide toraturn ta America? Reasoning link: How do you account for the couple's constant changes and dissatisfaction with the lives they lead? New York / The West / California (Il. 190-251) 7. Answer YES or NOto the following questions about the time they lived In New York and justify your answers by quoting from the t 71 Did tey carry all thelr things with them to New York? 7.2 Did diey Nave enough money to rent a pleasantapartment? 7.3 Wasthere enough raom ‘ar al the things they had brought from Europe?8. Complete the sentences according tothe text, 1 Although the Mehilles moved tothe mourtains.the things... b. What they really hatedabout simple life was... 6. They then Mad the chance BD, nnn ht a The difference between the house inthe mountains andthe cottage in CAF WAS a They decided that Calfornia wasn't good enough for them because Massachussets (II. 252-260) 9. Find out inthe text: ‘a. how Valerie's parents felt towards Valerie and Erasmus; b. the opiion about the couple's ifestyle; «. Valerle'syision of her own tte compared te hermother'svision ot ii . Valerie's mother'ssuggestion: «8, how Valerie felt towards het “things”: If the couple was starting tovettink their ifestyle. Reasoning link: Atthis point, after more than half way through the story, do {ou think the Metviles wil ever fee! satistiec? How ang where will they e6a ‘thal fa? Willthey evar conferm to themalnsteaam society? Paris (Il. 281-311) 10, Use your own words to clarify the following expressions: aa. “We have returned ke dogs toour vomit 1" (I, 286-287) bb. *(.) the job was upon him” (301) Reasoning link: Bearing in-miniéthe couple's love for “beauty” and “freedom, ‘explain the rat/cage metaphor used inthe text, Cleveland (11. 312-334) TI. Answer the following questionson the last part of the text. 112 According to the description, what kind of town was Cleveland? 11.2 How did they keep and show off telr European manner? 11.3 Find out examples of the author'sirony when deseribing the eouple’s things", 11.4 What does that tellus about the author's message aaoutthe whole ston? 1.5 Explain how both Valesle and Erasmus felt towards the fact that they: were finaly settledin a placeAFTER READING ACTIVITIES | Gaback tothe text and match each picture with one of the phasesin the ‘couple's life. Explain yourchoices. B i 2. Write a different ending for the story where Erasmus doesn't accent the job in Cleveland. Write a review of theshort story (Go to your Coursebook page 234 for ‘tins on how to write a review) 28