Country_____Vietnam_______________________
Your Name___Matthew Rice___________________________
Submit to: [email protected] and post to edmodo for a 10 pt. quiz grade by 6-17-15
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BIOGRAPHY OR NON-FICTION
Book title ___The Lover_____________________
Author___Marguerite Duras______________________
Date published ___1984_____________
List three adjectives that describe this book
____complex_______ ____dynamic________ _____unique______
What is the book about? (write at least three sentences)
Marguerite Duras’ The Lover is a semi-autobiographical story about a young French girl growing up in the French colony of French Indochina on the eve of Ho Chi Minh’s Communist revolution. The unnamed narrator, a 15-year-old French student lives with her widowed mother and two brothers. One day, while retuning from a vacation on the Vietnamese coast, the young girl meets a Chinese millionaire with whom she soon starts and elicit affair. This story follows the affair between the Chinese man and the narrator and also shows what effects this has on the narrator, her family, and the Chinese man himself.
What was good about the book?
The narrator’s voice was very clear and articulate.
What was challenging about the book?
The narrator only spoke in 3rd person, and never used any actual names, which can be challenging to follow.
Would you recommend the book? Why or why not?
I thought it was great because it tells a very interesting loves story with the added benefit of showing what it’s like for a European to be living in a colony.
Your Name___Matthew Rice___________________________
Submit to: [email protected] and post to edmodo for a 10 pt. quiz grade by 6-17-15
*******************************************************************************************
BIOGRAPHY OR NON-FICTION
Book title ___The Lover_____________________
Author___Marguerite Duras______________________
Date published ___1984_____________
List three adjectives that describe this book
____complex_______ ____dynamic________ _____unique______
What is the book about? (write at least three sentences)
Marguerite Duras’ The Lover is a semi-autobiographical story about a young French girl growing up in the French colony of French Indochina on the eve of Ho Chi Minh’s Communist revolution. The unnamed narrator, a 15-year-old French student lives with her widowed mother and two brothers. One day, while retuning from a vacation on the Vietnamese coast, the young girl meets a Chinese millionaire with whom she soon starts and elicit affair. This story follows the affair between the Chinese man and the narrator and also shows what effects this has on the narrator, her family, and the Chinese man himself.
What was good about the book?
The narrator’s voice was very clear and articulate.
What was challenging about the book?
The narrator only spoke in 3rd person, and never used any actual names, which can be challenging to follow.
Would you recommend the book? Why or why not?
I thought it was great because it tells a very interesting loves story with the added benefit of showing what it’s like for a European to be living in a colony.