“Without literature, life is hell.” W.B

Sweet London

Par One-Girl

(Own this photo, not taken on the net) We're back, from one the most amazing trips we ever did! London, we were in London! The excentric city, the crazyness, and the smog, right, but we didn't care! I want to go back and live there for a while, just to...

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Machen Style

Par One-Girl

Raining. Pouring. Water surrounds me. I'm trapped in this translucent column. Buildings are as grey as the flow that keeps on coming and soaking me. They say it's a beautiful city, it's not. The wind blows and slaps to my hears, as if it wanted to torture...

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William Morris style " The place of expression"

Par One-Girl

I woke up again, without knowing where I was. As before, I was on the river Thames bank, except that this time the water had turned as grey as a cloud loaded with rain. My impression was confirmed when I looked up to the sky that was a perfect reflection...

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The Old Man And The Sea -- Part 5

Par One-Girl

Before vacations, we studied the last passage of the novel (click here if you want to read it) We found a question that was the more accurate on this extract: How far a travel story can change someone? When you first read this passage, there is an impression...

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The Old Man And The Sea -- Part 4

Par One-Girl

Before going to class, we had to answer the question : The old man's about to enter the nightmare stage, what do you think is going to happen? It was quite hard for me as I already read the book, so I kind of failed in answering the question. Nevermind,...

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The Old Man And The Sea -- Part 3

Par One-Girl

Last Tuesday, we studied the continuation of Hemingway's novel, and we tried to guess whether or not it could be related to what C. Booker calls the " Frustation Stage", and we concluded that this passage was typical of the frustation stage: First of...

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The Old Man And The Sea -- Part 2

Par One-Girl

Before Holidays, we studied the second part of the novel, and it was really moving. First, we had to " ask" the text all the questions we found with the expression " How come..." and then try to answer each of them with certain various degrees of probabilty....

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A Whole New World

Par One-Girl

Last vacations, I visited Florida, well not the whole state but two principal towns , Miami and Orlando, and some of the main attractions: I went in the Everglades, which are extremely wide swamps, and also the only spot in the world where you can find...

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The Old Man And The Sea -- Part 1

Par One-Girl

Last Tuesday, we studied the beginning of Hemingway's most famous novel : The Old Man and The Sea, which tends to be the anticipation stage of Christopher Booker's pattern, because it introduces a character that waits for something to happen. We also...

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Mabel by William Somerset Maugham

Par One-Girl

Tuesday, we studied a shortstory, Mabel, by William Somerset Maugham. The scene takes place at Pagam in Burma, a couple of days before the narrator got to Mandalay. The first lines introduce the main characters: the narrator( a man), George, the secretary...

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