![]() His foreign publishers take care of his travel and, thanks to various old friends and the introductions he receives to several famous cartoonists, he is never lonely (or hungry: staying with a family in a chalet in the French Alps, he can’t get over the mountains of meat and cheese they consume). It is 2004, and Thompson, the acclaimed author of the now classic graphic novel Blankets, has left his home in the US, first for Europe, where he is to promote his work, and then for Morocco, where he plans to research the book that will eventually become the marvellous Habibi (2011). As its author notes in his opening pages, no cameras or mobiles were used in its making: his eyes and his brush pens did all the work. What I like about it most, though, is the way it acts as an antidote to the all-seeing, all-consuming power of the smartphone. ![]() Clever, funny and disarmingly honest, it is, of course, predictably lovely to look at Thompson is a master sketcher. But it has been long out of print, and this lovely edition comes with 32 extra pages, there to provide a kind of update on some of the people he met on his original tour across Europe and Morocco. First published in 2004, it is not a new book. C raig Thompson’s travel journal, Carnet de Voyage, is a comic for anyone who has ever travelled alone – and hated themselves for hating it. ![]()
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![]() This activity is born out of the texts that Marsden read as a young adult. This relates to 4:39 mins–5:01 mins of the interview. Each activity is linked to a specific section of John Marsden’s interview and the relevant portion of the interview is noted at the beginning of the activity. All activities can be adapted to suit smaller groups or individual students. The activities have been formulated for use with a whole class or small groups, and a suggested grouping is individually noted in each activity. The following activities and tasks have been designed to be studied and used in full or in part, depending on the teaching context. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please click here to access the Interview, Bibliography, Show notes and Transcript and Author profile. This unit of work was created in partnership with The Garret and accompanies their interview with John Marsden. ![]() ![]() ![]() In terms of her own temporal perspective, less than a year of her life has passed despite the monumental changes that have taken place around her while she slept. ![]() Because she is in stasis during the voyage from Earth to Sagan, she is only 13 by the time the novel ends. The story is told from the first-person perspective of 12-year-old Petra Peña. The story begins on Earth in the summer of 2061 but concludes 380 years later, on a distant planet called Sagan. This study guide and all of its page citations are based on the Kindle edition of the novel. Some material may be intense for younger readers, though the overall tone of the book is hopeful, despite its dystopian classification. It is intended for readers aged 10 and up. 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A beautiful love story turns to tragedy when jealousy takes root."Some Observations on Othello, Act 1" – Michael Hanke."The Unreason of Iago: A Close Reading of the Beginning of Othello" – Jay Graham."Is Venice in Shakespeare's Othello a Racist Society?" – Robert C."'A Monstrous Birth' Brought 'to the World's Light': The Assault on Authority and the Darkening of the Soul in Othello" – Robert Carballo.From the Machiavellian menace of Iago to the blind and prideful jealousy of Othello, this classic of world literature shows us the shadow falling over a society that has turned its back on the light and life of virtue. A cautionary tale of the destructiveness of sin and the ruinous consequences of bad philosophy, Othello seems to express Shakespeare's rage at the cynicism and brutality of the age in which he lived. One of the four great tragedies-alongside Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth– Othello is among the darkest of Shakespeare's plays, illumining the shadows of the gloomiest recesses of the human psyche and serving as a damning indictment of the world in which it was written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wandering through the food and drink stalls, I came across Mainbrace. Read on to discover the Cornish Foodie interview with Mainbrace Cornish rum, and that all-important taste test verdict … St Ives Food & Drink Festivalĭespite 2 days of typically Cornish weather – drizzle, or mizzle as we call it here in Cornwall – the 3rd day was as balmy and as sunny as Barbados! With turquoise coloured sea beyond the soft, white sands of Porthminster beach, we truly could have been in the West Indies. 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