group "english practice"

[cococacao]

next subject is number 2:

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an extract of the novel Angela's Ashes

We could prepare it for the 16th of september?

could i work with your group? how do you work? just write our summary on EDP ? or msn? I 'll prepare this text for 16th .

Yes that's it: you put it on this site

[teacher]

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Actually, I found the french quotation from O.Wilde here :

http://www.evene.fr/citations/theme/reve-reves.php

And I still can't find the original quotation from O. Wilde !!!

Is there a contact you could write to and ask about the origin of this quote ?

it's just that Faulkner's quote and your O.Wilde's French translation are so similar !

Don't wory we'll get to the bottom of the problem...one day !

[orion144]

I won't be ready for the sum up of the subject 2, tomorrow. But it will be OK for wednesday

[cococacao]

ok no problem I'm late too!

[Aspidistra]

Hi!!

I would like to join you either. I will write my summary on wednesday. (I am working on it today).

See you.

[teacher]

Hi!!

I would like to join you either. I will write my summary on wednesday. (I am working on it today).

See you.

[teacher]

I won't be ready for the sum up of the subject 2, tomorrow. But it will be OK for wednesday

to sum up / a summary

[Aspidistra]

Hi everybody, please find herewith my summary. It is a long time since I haven't practice English thus I must be really beneath the required level.

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This text is an extract of a Novel ‘angle’s ache written by Franck MCourt, in 1996.

Several characters are part of this extract: Angela, mother of a baby boy who has just be christened, Malachy who his the father of the baby, Philomena and Delia Angela’sisters. The text also mentioned the husbands of the two sisters but there are not part of the story.

At the beginning of the text Philomena offers to Angela and Malachy to have a tea at her house to celebrate the baby baptism. But Malachy refuses a tea and Angela accuses him to want to have alcoholic drink actually. Malachy leaves the house to go and have a drink in a pub.

Angela begins to cry, and after a little rest and food, Angela then Delia start to give a warming to their sister. They accuse her to have a story with a boy she just met, that she had a baby and that it would be preferable is she abandoned it. They accuse Malachy to be a stranger from North.

We don’t know much of the story, we can just imagine that Angela just meet her boyfriend when she was pregnant, and that her family doesn’t like him. Is it because they think he drinks or because his is a foreigner from north Ireland for them we cannot really know. (we can here evocate that Angela family could be from south Ireland, or that it is possible that the story took place when lot of immigrants live Ireland for north America last century  differentes hypotheses)

Most of the time people fear strangers, and accuse them for a lot of problems and diseases.

This is often pure racism : the fear of the difference. That it was religious difference, way of life difference, people are afraid because they don’t know. Most of the time when we take time to understand a person, his history, his believe, there is no more fear but mutual respect and an aim to know even more the other…

Have a good afternoon..

[felicity]

Hi everybody!

Here is my summary:

SUMMARY:

This text is an extract from the novel entitled Angela's Ashes, written in 1996 by Franck Mc Court. This novel is an autobiography since it deals with the author's true life, especially his childhood in the early 30's in Ireland.

The scene takes place at Phelomena's house and it's the christening of Angela's son. Malachy and Angela are arguing. Angela blames Malachy with going out to drink instead of staying with them on this special day. In this house, the sisters and their husbands were eating while Angela remains in the corner nursing and crying.

Philomena blames Angela by saying that she would have been happier without that man, and angrily, advised her not to add other children because of her husband's drunkenness and unemployment.

By reading, we understand that Angela's husband is not really appreciated by her familly. First, he is from northern Ireland, and means to them a foreigner.

In fact they blame him with not having succeed in raising his familly in America like everybody. Instead, he comes back to Ireland where they will live in extreme poverty .

ELEMENTS IN RELATION WITH THE TEXT (AUTHOR AND THE NOVEL)

Angela's Ashes is a memoir by Irish author Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, McCourt is the eldest son of Malachy and Angela McCourt. He is joined by brother Malachy in 1931, twins Oliver and Eugene in 1933, and a sister, Margaret, in 1934. After the death of his sister Margaret when she was only a few weeks old, his parents move the family back to their native Ireland, where his younger twin brothers both die within a year of the family's arrival and where Frank's youngest brothers, Michael (b. 1936) and Alphie (b. 1940) are born.

Life in Ireland, and specifically life in Limerick City, in the 1930s and 1940s is described in all its grittiness. The family lives in a hovel with one bare light bulb and bedbugs, on a dirt lane, and share one outdoor toilet with all their neighbors. Although his father teaches the children Irish stories and songs, he is an alcoholic and seldom finds work, and so they live on the dole (unemployment) or charity while the father spends days drinking in bars. For years the family subsists mostly on bread and tea. (Divorce was illegal in Ireland until 1997) From wikipedia

THE IRISH HISTORY:

The 19th and early 20th century saw the rise of Irish Nationalism especially among the Catholic population. Daniel O'Connell led a successful unarmed campaign for Catholic Emancipation. A subsequent campaign for Repeal of the Act of Union failed. Later in the century Charles Stewart Parnell and others campaigned for self government within the Union or "Home Rule". An armed rebellion took place with the Easter Rising of 1916, and the subsequent Irish War of Independence. In 1921, a treaty was concluded between the British Government and the leaders of the Irish Republic. The Treaty recognised the two-state solution created in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Northern Ireland was presumed to form a home rule state within the new Irish Free State unless it opted out. Northern Ireland had a majority Protestant population and opted out as expected, its in-built majority choosing to remain part of the United Kingdom, incorporating within its border a significant Catholic/Nationalist minority. A Boundary Commission was set up to decide on the boundaries between the two Irish states, though it was subsequently abandoned after it recommended only minor adjustments to the border. Disagreements over some provisions of the treaty led to a split in the Nationalist movement and subsequently to the Civil War. The civil war ended in 1923 with the defeat of the Anti-treaty forces.

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was ratified by the Dáil in December 1921 by a vote of 64 - 57. The minority refused to accept the result and this eventually resulted in the beginning of the Irish Civil War, which lasted until 1923. In 1922, in the middle of this civil war, the Irish Free State came into being. During its early years the new state was governed by the victors of the Civil War. However, in the 1930s Fianna Fáil, the party of the opponents of the treaty, were elected into government. The party proposed and the electorate accepted in a referendum in 1937 a new constitution which renamed the state "Éire or in the English language, Ireland" (article 4 of the Constitution). from wikipedia

[felicity]

Hi everybody, please find herewith my summary. It is's been a long time since I haven't practiced English thus I must be really beneath the required level.

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This text is an extract offrom a Novel angle’s ache Angela's Ashes written by Franck MCourt, in 1996.

Several characters are part of this extract: Angela, mother of a baby boy who has just been christened, Malachy who his the father of the babyor also the baby's father, Philomena and Delia Angela’ s sisters. The text also mentionneds the husbands of the two sisters but there are not part of the story.

At the beginning of the text Philomena offers to Angela and Malachy to have a tea at her house to celebrate the baby baptism. But Malachy refuses a tea and Angela accuses him to want to have alcoholic drink actually. Malachy leaves the house to go and have a drink in a pub.

Angela begins to cry, and after a little rest and food, Angela then Delia start to give a warming to their sister. They accuse her to have a story with a boy she just met, that she had a baby and that it would be preferable is she abandoned it. They accuse Malachy to be a stranger from North.

We don’t know much of the story, we can just imagine that Angela just meet her boyfriend when she was pregnant, and that her family doesn’t like him. Is it because they think he drinks or because his is a foreigner from north Ireland for them we cannot really know. (we can here evocate that Angela's family could be from south Ireland, or that it is possible that the story took place when lot of immigrants live Ireland for north America last century  differentes hypotheses theories or assumptions)

Most of the time people fear strangers, and accuse them for a lot of problems and diseases.

This is often pure racism : the fear of the difference. That it was religious difference, way of life difference, people are afraid because they don’t know. Most of the time when we take time to understand a person, his history, his believe, there is no more fear but mutual respect and an aim to know even more the other…

Have a good afternoon..

[cococacao]

Hi

I 've only had time to prepare the text as though it was D-day: 30 minutes of preparation and my brain...

This text is an extract from the novel Angela's Ashes written by FRank McCourt in 1996.

The story takes place in Ireland, after the baptism of Angela's son.

Four characters are present into this scene: Philomena, Delia and Angela who are sisters and Angela's husband: Malachy.

Philomena invites her sisters and brothers-in-law at home to have tea, ham and cakes after the baptism of Angela and Malachy's son

Malachy drinks. After a quarrel with her wife ANgela, he prefers to leave into town expecting a free drink in a bar for his son's baptism.

At Philomena's home, they eat and drink. Angela is crying because of her husband and she is nursing her son. Philomena tells her she never had to get married with that man and when she was pregnant she should have pur her baby up for adoption. She would be a free woman at that time. Delia also tells Angela what she thinks about Malachy and that she can only blame herself to be into that situation.

For sisters, Malachy isn't a good man for Angela. He has a very bad reputation of drunkard.

I think Angela's sisters are sick and tired of her situation and they would expect her to be happy.

Even though Philomena and Delia's words are "hard", it's because they do want the best for their sister.

I don't know many things about this novel neither the author but it is what I can say about this text.

Characters speak into an argo language.

[felicity]

Hi

I 've only had time to prepare the text as though it was D-day: 30 minutes of preparation and my brain...

This text is an extract from the novel Angela's Ashes written by FRank McCourt in 1996.

The story takes place in Ireland, after the baptism of Angela's son.

Four characters are present into this scene: Philomena, Delia and Angela who are sisters and Angela's husband: Malachy.

Philomena invites her sisters and brothers-in-law at home to have tea, ham and cakes after the baptism of Angela and Malachy's son

Malachy drinks. After a quarrel with her his wife Angela, he prefers to leave into town expecting a free drink in a bar for his son's baptism.

At Philomena's home, they eat and drink. Angela is crying because of her husband and she is nursing her son. Philomena tells her she never had to get married with that man and when she was pregnant she should have pur her baby up for adoption. She would be a free woman at that time. Delia also tells Angela what she thinks about Malachy and that she can only blame herself to be into that situation.

For sisters, Malachy isn't a good man for Angela. He has a very bad reputation of drunkard.

I think Angela's sisters are sick and tired of her situation and they would expect her to be happy.

Even though Philomena and Delia's words are "hard", it's because they do want the best for their sister.

I don't know many things about this novel neither the author but it is what I can say about this text.

Characters speak into an argo language.