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 Review of Coming of Age Unit

1. “Reunion” by John Cheever

List the names of your group members here: Emil, Jonathan, Tine, Aferdita, Khalid, Ida.

1.     What is the genre?

Fiction, short story.

2.     Summarize the plot.

• Charlies parents are divorced
• Charlie have not seen his father for three years.

• Charlie arrives at the station, meets father
• Goes to four restaurants, gets kicked out
• Newsstand, father fails to buy newspaper
• Charlie leaves to get his train    

3.     What is the POV of this text? How does it affect the text?

1.st person, from future charlie. Only from charlies perspective. Makes it more personal, Charlies experience. Charlie tells us the story.

4.     Describe the character of the protagonist.

• Passive (he accepts that his father is his doom)(do not ask his father anything personal)
• Loving (contact his father, gives the father a chance)
• 12-15 years ish
• Split about his father, confused. (He liked his father, but realize he is not who he thought he would be)

5.     What are the themes of this text? What does the text say about coming of age?

Growing up/coming of age.

A sudden realization that your parent aren’t who you thought they were.

Want’s to avoid being like his father when grown. Do not like his father's behaviour.

Doom... Charlie believes that he is destined to be like his father.  

2. “Just Like That” by Michael Richardson

List the names of your group members here: Renzo

1.     What is the genre? Novel fixtion

2.     Summarize the plot.

3.     What is the POV of this text? How does it affect the text?

4.     Describe the character of the protagonist.

5.     What are the themes of this text? What does the text say about coming of age?

3. “How to Date” by Junot Diaz

List the names of your group members here: Ali, Cia, Niels, Katrine & Ibrahim

1.     What is the genre?

Fiction, short story

2.     Summarize the plot.

It can be difficult to explain the plot in this kind of text. But we can say that it’s a dating manual taking its point in preparing and execute a date and how to date different girls.

3.     What is the POV of this text? How does it affect the text?

The text is written in second person, that affects the text in a direction of what the writer’s point of view is.

4.     Describe the character of the protagonist.

We assume the narrator is a teenage boy living in an urban area. He tries to win the hearts of the local girls and he has written a guide to dating different kinds of girls. Because of his upbringing and his culture, he feels/knows he has to hide his identity in order to please the girls. We see the multiple dimensions of the protagonist all brought out by race.

5.     What are the themes of this text? What does the text say about coming of age?

Theme: soul searching, identity crises, different social classes, racial differences.

Coming of age: The text is telling us something about how to date and how we learn to get around people from different social classes. 

This is a  big part of growing up. To learn how to handle other people and get around them.

 - “learning by doing”.    

4. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

List the names of your group members here: zainab, Cecilie, Ali, Israa, Tina, Mikkel