I read a book called “The Dinner” by Herman Koch. Herman Koch is a Dutch writer and actor. He has written short stories, novels, and columns. His best-selling novel The Dinner which was published in 2009 has been translated into 21 languages. And also, the book has been adapted into two movies. Plot + characters The story takes place in Amsterdam at one fancy restaurant. Two couples meet there for dinner. The men are brothers but unfortunatelly they don't get along very well. The brothers with their wives have gathered together to discuss their teenage sons. Their sons have commited a horrible crime which has been caught on video camera. From the video the boys can't be identified. So the parents have to decide what to do next. The story is guided by one of the brothers called Paul. Paul is a former high school history teacher. Second brother's name is Serge who is a highly successful politician
Assassin By Shaun Hutson About the Author Born in 1958 Writer of horror novels and dark urban thrillers Author of "Slugs" basis, also screenplay for The Figgis Brothers Assassin her 10th novel The book Takes place in England's capital London About gang wars 20th century Main characters Frederick Harvey the police commissioner Frank Harrison one of the nether world's leaders, he is gang ruler and he have had leader of streets about two year The story Harrison's life is getting heavier and heavier.Things in the city are getting more out of control. There are a lot of blood, people are killing and shooting each other up
BOOK REPORT Title & author of the book: 'Anita and Me' by Meera Syal The setting of the book? The story resolves around Meena Syal, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a vision of British childhood in the 1960s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of enormous change. Meena is desperate to fit in with the other children in her neighbourhood while forever feeling like an outsider because she is "different". Eventhough the Punjabi family is well respected by the locals, there are still sutations when they have to deal with racism. Plot summary (NB! Use the present tenses) Anita and Me by Meera Syal is the story of a young Punjabi girl growing up in the fictional English village of Tollington in the Midlands in the 1960s. The book follows Meena during her pre-teen years
about food Blind in one eye since childhood (left eye) . He was educated at Michigan State University where he received his B.A. (1960) and M.A. (1964) in comparative literature Married and has two daughters. Has written over 50 books. Main Characters COL. WILLIAM LUDLOW - Idealistic, formalistic, rational, stong willed, so principled that he left his job because of unethical behavor in the army, it's almost obsessive to him that Indians get treated properly; wrote a book to the government objecting to their policy. TRISTAN LUDLOW - Adventurer and smuggler who loves his freedom so much that he lives like an indian, his long hairs and horse riding symbolize his independence, too self-confident, takes risks, when Sammuel is killed he tries to escape his feelings of guilt by sailing the sea's ALFRED LUDLOW - Macho; power hungry, the indian says he was older and looked even more older than the other ones, humiliates his other brothers in public(bully).
Book review Title: ,,Vanamees ja meri" Author: Ernest Hemingway Publisher: ,,Eesti raamat" Year: 1985 Original: ,,The old man and the sea" Charles Scribner's Sons New York (1952) First printing: 1952 The book ,, The old man and the sea", is written by Ernest Hemingway. It tells the story of an old man called Santiago who lives in a small house near the ocean. The story takes place in the sea, about 50 years ago.The characters in the book are: a little boy, old man Santiago and a big fish. It is an short novel. There are film based on this book. The story is set on a big ocean. On the first pages, old man comes from fishing. Then he starts eating dinner with a boy. As the story develops, the man goes again to the sea to get fish. Then a big fish swallows the beat. The fish is so big that starts to pull the boat. The plot of the story is quite drab, but interesting too. The book contains lots of methaphors,
Ameerika Kirjandus 30.01.13 Naturalism · France, Emile Zola · Put down his theory in 1879: Le Roman Experimental, attempt to explain the development of human society throuch biological laws · Outlook is deterministic, pessimistic, fatalistic (fate or biology) · Man as an animal-clever than other beasts, still explainable within the framework · Man is not a free agent, is govern by something · Unable to determine his own faith · Hereditary · Naturalists tried to apply in fiction the processes of natural sciences · Writers task is to record facts, systems of behaviour, living conditions, never revealing any natural unbiased (completely natural) · Point of view: amoral-outside the category of morality, neither good or bad
Dracula Bram Stoker An Irish novellist Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel ‘’Dracula’’ was first published in 1897. The story is about vampire that tries to find new blood for himself and the hunt for him. Also you can find a little romance in the book. It takes place in Transylvania, Romania and in England. The novel is written in diary-form and several characters are telling their story by keeping a journal. Entries are written in six months by four persons. In the novel there are nine main characters: Jonathan Harker, whose writings are seen first; Count Dracula, of whom all the story is about, but he does not keep a diary; Wilhelmina ‘’Mina’’ Harker, early Murray, wife of Jonathan Harker; Lucy Westerna, a friend of
Started to install boxes, in each box, there was a camera. Does the hooves touch the ground or not? Fast shutter, can freeze the moment. Makes fast shutters, to record this. Finds solution, hooves are touching. The prerequisites for cinema: camera(edison and dickson), film stock that is flexible and stable to run through camera(kodak, celluloid film), projector, can show the image on a screen(1895-max skladanowsky, lumiere brothers) The lumiere brothers and cinematographe Father was a wealthy factory owner. Thomas edison-worked with moving images. They thaught they can do that also: called it cinematograph-the recording of movement. Started to film on the streets, how they are coming from factorys and called this actuality. They thaught that they are filming the world the way it is. Why do u need to show people things they see every day? The first ,,cinema": cafe. Le grand cafe, paris. 28th of december 1895. Watched the lumiere brothers film
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