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Author | : Catharina Belinghausen |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2009-10-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3640441516 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: The award-winning first novel „Vernon God Little“ by DBC Pierre „ puts an astute, if needling, finger on the scary collusion between entertainment and law enforcement in American culture...If Huckelberry Finn were set on the Mexican-American border and written by the creators of South Park, it might read something like this“ states the San Francisco Chronicle. Vernon Little as well as Huckleberry Finn is a coming of age story and describes the protagonist’s struggeling against society, the media and his single mother. Written in an unfiltred and sharp adolescent-boys-slang, one could be remindend of dialogues adapted from South Park. Teaching „Vernon God Little“ in an English as a 2nd language classroom can be challenging for several reasons. Some might claim that style and language could be unappropriate in some ways for a classroom. On the other hand the novel offers various topics interesting for teenage students and worth discussing in class as highschool massacres, mass media, US justice system or even more subtile coming of age topics as the relationship towards family, first love and sexual interests. In this paper a short overview of the novel, its plot, its main characters and the setting is provided as a general basis. The topic „adolescence and family as a special coming of age theme as well as „the influence of media“ as a special topic are exemplary analysed. The main character’s relationship towards his single mother is complex and a noticable metaphore of „a knife in his back“ occurs throughout the novel. The struggle between independence and emotional and material addiction to their parents is well-known by adolescent students and might be an interesting topic they can elaborate on. The media gains more and more influence in teenagers’ daily lifes and therefore a critical discussion of this topic might be appropriate. As the titel of this paper refers to weblogs as a way of teaching the novel, a short overview of reading logs, blogs in general and the possible connection between those as a teaching tool is provided. Reading logs support the student’s individual access to a novel, their transformation to the modern platform of the Internet is discussed and the explicit application of weblogs to the novel „Vernon God Little“ is discribed. The last part offers some tasks, according to the prior introduced topics „adolescence and family“ and the „influence of media“ which can be provided in the weblog.
Author | : Catharina Belinghausen |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3640441672 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: The award-winning first novel "Vernon God Little" by DBC Pierre " puts an astute, if needling, finger on the scary collusion between entertainment and law enforcement in American culture...If Huckelberry Finn were set on the Mexican-American border and written by the creators of South Park, it might read something like this" states the San Francisco Chronicle. Vernon Little as well as Huckleberry Finn is a coming of age story and describes the protagonist's struggeling against society, the media and his single mother. Written in an unfiltred and sharp adolescent-boys-slang, one could be remindend of dialogues adapted from South Park. Teaching "Vernon God Little" in an English as a 2nd language classroom can be challenging for several reasons. Some might claim that style and language could be unappropriate in some ways for a classroom. On the other hand the novel offers various topics interesting for teenage students and worth discussing in class as highschool massacres, mass media, US justice system or even more subtile coming of age topics as the relationship towards family, first love and sexual interests. In this paper a short overview of the novel, its plot, its main characters and the setting is provided as a general basis. The topic "adolescence and family as a special coming of age theme as well as "the influence of media" as a special topic are exemplary analysed. The main character's relationship towards his single mother is complex and a noticable metaphore of "a knife in his back" occurs throughout the novel. The struggle between independence and emotional and material addiction to their parents is well-known by adolescent students and might be an interesting topic they can elaborate on. The media gains more and more influence in teenagers' daily lifes and therefore a critical discussion
Author | : DBC Pierre |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802194354 |
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“If Huckleberry Finn were set on the Mexican-American border and written by the creators of South Park, it might read something like this.” —San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The memorable portrait of America is seen through the eyes of a wry, young protagonist. Fifteen-year-old Vernon narrates the story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his townsfolk, a medley of characters. With a plot involving a school shooting and death-row reality TV shows, Pierre’s effortless prose and dialogue combine to form a novel of postmodern gamesmanship. “A dangerous, smart, ridiculous, and very funny first novel . . . Pierre renders adolescence brilliantly, capturing with seeming effortlessness the bright, contradictory hormone rush of teenage life.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times
Author | : Cengage Learning Gale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781535842099 |
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Author | : Christopher Wakling |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062121707 |
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“This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging….I LOVED IT.” —Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel—the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling’s tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original—poignant, powerful, and extremely funny—a miraculous work that prompted London’s Daily Mail to declare it “the novel that should have won the Booker prize.”
Author | : Delia Falconer |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : 1458742172 |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Short stories, Australian |
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Author | : Martyn Godfrey |
Publisher | : New York : Avon Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Indoor hockey |
ISBN | : 9780380765805 |
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Stormy Sprague and other misfits call "the Dregs of the Detention Dungeon" form a floor hockey team and they even have the nerve to compete against the unbeatable Screaming Eagles.
Author | : DBC Pierre |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0571283195 |
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When DBC Pierre burst onto the scene in 2003, he arrived with no particular literary education. Finding he had something to say, he made the journey solo to that place where dreams and demons live, to try and turn feelings into words.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way.
Author | : Albert M. Wolters |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2005-11-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 146742563X |
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with a Postcript coauthored by Michael W. Goheen In print for two decades and translated into eight languages, Albert Wolters's classic formulation of an integrated Christian worldview has been revised and expanded to reach new readers beyond the generation that has already benefited from this clear, concise proposal for transcending the false dichotomy between sacred and secular. Wolters begins by defining the nature and scope of a worldview, distinguishing it from philosophy and theology. He then outlines a Reformed analysis of the three basic categories in human history -- creation, fall, and redemption -- arguing that while the fall reaches into every corner of the world, Christians are called to participate in Christ's redemption of all creation. This Twentieth Anniversary edition features a new concluding chapter, coauthored with Michael Goheen, that helpfully places the discussion of worldview in a broader narrative and missional context.