viernes, 25 de abril de 2008

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Penguin Readers

The situation I like is when both main characters, Bruno and Guy, meet themselves the first time in the train. They are completely unknown. Bruno is the typical person who speak to everybody while Guy is a quiet man who answer the questions that Bruno make and he really want to read his book and don´t continuous the conversation.
Later, Bruno invite Guy to have dinner in a private room, and both, drunks, speak about themselves and they agree the next murders.
It´s incredible, in our life, we plan every minute, and there are not time for improvisations. Then, one moment, some situation you don´t plan, and can be the best in your life, or perphaps the worst. We watch a lot of examples in real life, for example, everybody enjoies with forward players football who play marvellous attack improvisations but nobody enjoies with defenders order and organization, in fact, everybody enjoies with their mistakes. We stribe to plan our free time with different activities, we don´t have time to stop, or simply to be bored.Then you know that the next time someone speak you in the train, be careful, because perphaps, will be the beginning of a great adventure.

DIARY OF ANNE FRANK. Penguin Readers.

When I began to do the exercise, first, I thought to choose the first point, it was “which character I like best and why”, but well, it is a diary, there is not more characters with enough information to choose, except, of course, Anne Frank. As this character did not motivate me, I decided to pass to the next point. It was “which situation I like best and why”. Well, If we think that she is jew, and her country is invaded by Hitler, we can suppose that there is not more good situations to describe. I passed to the next point “a different title and why” – Do I have to explain? – Finally, I chose “a different end and why”. It was the most suitable point for a novel where main character is killed and beside it is a few days before the war was finished. Ok, I begin with my real homework.
Anne Frank and her family were found by German soldiers. They send them to the Jews `s jail, previous, to send them to Auschwith. There, the Anne `s mother tell the german doctor they were not jews, because she had an antecesor uncle who was viking, and then It was imposible to send them to the gas room, and lose this important viking genes. The doctor was thinking about it during a week, and finally decided to free full family except the mother-in-law. It is logical, because, actually, she was jew, she had not viking genes, as Anne´s mother repited several times. And finally, they lived in the family farm, very happy to the end of their lifes.