21 ST CENTURY LITERATURE SILK

QUESTIONS:
 What do you think of the
concept of love at first
sight?
 Is it possible to fall in
love with someone even if
 QUESTIONS:
 What do you think of
romantic relationships
between people from
different countries? Do you
think they are doomed to
fail?
21 ST CENTURY LITERATURE SILK
 CONCEPT NOTES:
 SAKOKU- a kind of policy , where
Japan was closed off from the
world from 17 century to the year
th

1854.
 mistrust to foreign traders
 CONCEPT NOTES:
 Matthew Perry forced to
open Japan into the world-
trade & diplomacy through
the Treaty of Peace and Amity
 CONCEPT NOTES:
 Ayako Mie (2014) Silk is
the
most important exports
after the isolation in 1854.
 CONCEPT NOTES:
 This literature took place
in Japan where they have
just opened their country to
foreigners.
 SILK
Explore the underlying
symbolism of the silkworms
and metamorphosis—
opening of the eggs, feeding,
cocooning, and spinning
1,000 yards of thread.
 ponders the sorrow of
ALLESANDRO BARRICO

a popular Italian
writer, director, and
performer, whose
novels have been
translated into a wide
ALLESANDRO BARRICO
 He is the author of two
previous novels, Castelli
di rabbia, which won the
Prix Médicis in France
 Selezione Campiello
prize in Italy,
 Ocean-Sea, which won
 VOCABULARY
Imperceptibly – unnoticeably
Hoarse - deep and harsh
sounding as if from shouting,
illness or emotion
Melancholy – a feeling of
thoughtful sadness
 Gaze – to stare/ look at
 VOCABULARY
Voyage – an act of traveling
by
water/sail
Wrenched – made a sudden
twist/change
Inexorably – never ceasing,
relentless,