Small Island test

18March2009

Evaluation test about the book "Small Island". (Chapters 1 to 10).

Small Island II

16March2009

In this class we have continued to talk about the first chapters.
One of the questions that were made by the teacher was: How did the first three chapters tell us or give you information how the novel will be about? (Themes)
The three first chapters are related to immigration, culture shock. A man that goes to a new country and have to adapt himself to a new culture and then, help his family to adapt to.
I have decided to answer in topics:
- Conflict (encounters with a new culture)
- Different education backgrounds
- Racism
- Colonialism and post-colonialism
- After war
- Culture shock (personal shock)
- Expectations, dreams, desires
- Feeling small in a different country and culture

Themes of the novel

16March2009

In this class we talked about chapters 3 to 10. We were asked in this class to say some of the themes that we blieved could be related how the novel will be about just reading the first 3 chapters. To this question I say that there several as following:

- conflict (encounters with a new culture)

- different education backgrounds

- racisme

- colonialism and post-colonialism

- after war

- culture shock (personal shock)

- expectations, dreams, desires

- feeling small in a different country and culture

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