ENGLISH LITERATURE by Rosario Caccamo https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6 ROSARIO CACCAMO 4°F en-us 2015-09-25 09:27:19 UTC 2024-04-17 05:40:08 UTC hello@padlet.com http://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/38792/images/Literature_Pile1.gif abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896466 HISTORY LINES]]> 2016-03-14 19:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896466 ANGLO-SAXONS, VIKINGS AND NORMANS INVASION abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896634
  •  449 Arrive in England
  • Foundation of small kingdoms
  •  William I (the conqueror)
  • 1016-35 Canute king of  England 
  • 1066 Battle of Hastings
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896634     THE CLASH BETWEEN CROWN AND CHURCH abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896680
  •  1154-1189 Henry 
    • Constitution of Clarendon
    • 1070 Murder of Thomas Becket 
    ]]>     2016-03-14 19:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896680     MAGNA CHARTA AND PARLIAMENT abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896711
  •  1189-199 Richard the Lionheart
  • 1199-1216John I (Lack land)
  • 1215 "Magna Charta"
  • 1264-65 House of Commons
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896711     THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896749
  •  1337 Edward III
  • 1348 Black Death (Bubone plague)
  • 1415 Henry V - Battle of Agincourt
  • 1453 Lost continental possession
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896749     THE WARS OF THE ROSES abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896777
  •  York VS Lancaster
  • 1485 Richard -Battle of Bosworth
  • 1485 Henry VII (Henry Tudor)- Peace period
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896777     THE REFORMATION AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896803
  •  Accession of Henry VIII (1509-47)
  •  1534 "Act of Supremacy"
  • Pope against Martin Luther
  • New protestant aristocracy arising
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896803     RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896841
  •  1547-53 First persecution of catholic under Edward III
  • 1553-1558 Then persecution of protestant under Mary Tudor
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896841     THE ELIZABETHAN "MIDDLE WAY" abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896864
  •  Elizabeth I becomes Queen
  • Compromise between Protestantism and Catholicism
  • Conquest of the seas
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 19:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100896864     abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100904137 LITERATURE]]> 2016-03-14 20:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100904137 ELIZABETHAN THEATRE abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100904196 Theatres had a great success under Elizabeth l ]]> 2016-03-14 20:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100904196 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100906182 Shakespeare was born in 1564. By 1592 he started his career as an actor and playwright. We know he wrote thirty-eight plays divided in tragedies, history plays and comedies.
    SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE:]]>     2016-03-14 20:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100906182     ROMAN BRITAIN abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100906204
  •  55-54 B.C. Julius Caesar's expedition 
  •  A.D. Hadrian's wall
  •  A.D. Emperor Claudius
  •  A.D. 410 End of Roman   Britain 
    • ]]>     2016-03-14 20:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100906204     ROMEO AND JULIET abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100906817 Lyrical tragedy
    • Set in Verona 
    • The protaginsts are two rival families (Montague and Capulets) and their two children, Romeo and Juliets
    • The main themes are:      - Love                                    - Conflictual relationship between old and young
      - Strife between families
    ]]>     2016-03-14 21:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100906817     OTHELLO abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100907208 Tragedy
    • Set in Venice and Cyprus
    • The main characters are Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Cassio
    • The main themes are:       - Prejudice                           - Jealousy                             - Appearence and reality
    ]]>     2016-03-14 21:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100907208     JULIUS CAESAR abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100907339 History tragedy
    • Set in Rome
    • The main characters are Julius Caesar, Brutus, Antony, Cassius
    • The main themes are:       - Friendship                         - Difficult choice                 - Struggle for power            - Rethoric
    ]]>     2016-03-14 21:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/100907339     1603 - 1625 abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252157 1603-1625: Death of Queen Elizabeth -> King James I (Scottish): absolute monarchy

    1605: Gunpowder Plot: Catholics try to blow up Parliament

    1620: Pilgrim Fathers (Puritans) foundation of the first English settlement in North America -> today U.S.A.]]>     2016-11-03 22:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252157     1640s abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252245 Civil War-> great changes: House of Commons more powerful.

    Mercantile classes closer to Puritanism:
    -austerity fits with importance given to work;
    -predestination: conquest godwill with success in business;
    -individualism in commercial matters]]>     2016-11-03 22:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252245     16th century abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252307 English literature influenced by the discovery and exploration of the New World: America.]]> 2016-11-03 22:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252307 Thanksgiving abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252705 Firstly celebrated by Pilgrims Fathers after their first harvest in New World, Thanksgiving is a major American holiday, characterised by a large family dinner, whose main course is roast turkey.]]> 2016-11-03 22:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135252705 English Bible abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135253084 Guide for the Pilgrims, translated during Renaissance, it influenced English literarature on images, vocsbulary, rhythms.]]> 2016-11-03 22:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135253084 Colonization abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135253542 The colonization period most influenced English writers as Edmund Spencer, John Donne, Andrew Marvell's (with his Bermudas)]]> 2016-11-03 22:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135253542 Native Americans abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135254299 Natives were seen on the one hand as sub-humans (almost animals), on the other one, philosophers recognised their humanity, even if the exploitation of the indigenous prevailed.]]> 2016-11-03 22:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135254299 America, Florida, Virginia names abramo_antonio99 https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135254749 - America -> named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci;
    -     Florida, from 'Land of Flowers', as conquistadores used to call it;
    - Virginia, named  in honour of Queen Elizabeth I, the ' Virgin Queen']]>     2016-11-03 22:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135254749     Black Friday caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135307630 It is the day after Thanksgiving when you can get great deals on goods.
    It was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season]]>     2016-11-04 09:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/135307630     Bob Dylan caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931325 2016-12-06 07:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931325 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931388 He received the Noble Prize for 'having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'.]]> 2016-12-06 07:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931388 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931525 He refused to collect his prize because he doesn't like public cerimonies.]]> 2016-12-06 07:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931525 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931750 His songs should be studied at school because they could help us in facing social problems.]]> 2016-12-06 07:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141931750 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932204 May God's bless and keep you always
    May your wishes all come true
    May you always do for others
    And let others do for you
    May you build a ladder to the stars
    And climb on every rung
    May you stay
    Forever young
    Forever young
    Forever young
    May you stay
    Forever young
    May you grow up to be righteous
    May you grow up to be true
    May you always know the truth
    And see the lights surrounding you
    May you always be courageous
    Stand upright and be strong
    And may you stay
    Forever young
    Forever young
    Forever young
    May you stay
    Forever young
    May your hands always be busy
    May your feet always be swift
    May you have a strong foundation
    When the winds of changes shift
    May your heart always be joyful
    May your song always be sung
    And may you stay
    Forever young
    Forever young
    Forever young
    May you stay
    Forever young


    ]]>     2016-12-06 07:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932204     caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932293 2016-12-06 07:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932293 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932410 Main themes of his songs:
    -war
    -peace
    -civil rights
    -death

    ]]>     2016-12-06 07:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932410     caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932505 Bob Dylan adresses to all new generation, but the message is above all for adults Who have  lost their innocence.]]> 2016-12-06 07:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/141932505 American influence in tue world caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632008 2017-02-14 07:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632008 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632070 Many countries are influenced by American culture]]> 2017-02-14 07:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632070 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632182 America advance in:
    -science
    -technology
    -democracy
    -business]]>     2017-02-14 07:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632182     caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632357 America has influenced Italy  in music, movies and television]]> 2017-02-14 07:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632357 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632549 Italy should preserve its tradition from other influences]]> 2017-02-14 07:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632549 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632652 FOOD]]> 2017-02-14 07:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632652 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632674 FASHION]]> 2017-02-14 07:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632674 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632704 American fashion is loved by young people]]> 2017-02-14 07:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632704 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632764 Italy has also influenced American food: pizza, mozzarella, roastbeef]]> 2017-02-14 07:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153632764 caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153633007 PROs and CONs:
    I thinkAmerican movies and programmes are really valuable.
    I think American fast food is less healthy than Italian cuisine.]]>     2017-02-14 07:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/153633007     Romanticism caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173865080 Is a cultural moviment appeared in Europe in the first yearsof 1800.The romantic poet have a different vision of themes of nature and love compared to the Classical poets, infact they put on their novels the emotions and the sentiment of the men]]> 2017-05-25 16:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173865080 Lord Byron caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173866336 He  was born in London in 1788;  travelled around Europe and the levant. He wrote "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" in which he describes his adventures in the countries he visited. He went to Italy and died in Greece where he fought for the indipendence of Greece. He personyfied the romantic hero in Byronic hero, which embodied the ideals of freedom and hate against social hypocrisy.
    Byronic hero is bold, melancholic. He loves solitude and is attracted by wild nature.

    ]]>     2017-05-25 16:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173866336     Don Juan caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173867814 Is one of the most famous works of Byron, a comic epic made up of sixteen cantos in ottava rima. Don juan is a boy, who discovers love in the arms of Donna Julia. He has to leave Spain because of the scandal caused by his relationship. He is shipwrecked in Greek where he met Heydi . He is sent to Istanbul and after a lot of adventures found himself in England]]> 2017-05-25 17:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173867814 Charels Dickens caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173870700 He was born in Portsmouth in Southern England. He became a famous reporter and reveals his satirical and humoristic qualities. He started the career as a novelist and during this period he wrote Oliver Twist.]]> 2017-05-25 17:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173870700 Oliver Twist caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173871569 The novel fictionalizes the insecurity and humilations Dickens experienced when he was a boy. Oliver is a boy whitout parents who works in workhouse, but he falls into a gang of pickpockets. After a little time a middle-class family adopts him. The novel is set in London and depicts the different social levels: parrochial world, criminal world and Victorian middle-class.]]> 2017-05-25 17:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173871569 Bronte sisters caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173873277 They spent most of their life in isolation in Yorkshire. They were educated at home thanks to their father.
    Emily wrote Wuthering Heights.]]>     2017-05-25 17:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173873277     Whutering Heights caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173874186 It's a novel which revolves around two houses: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcroos Grange. This novel explores human passions at different levels such as hate and love.. The main protagonist is Heathcliff, who arrives at the house and he is forced to spend the night there because of a storm. During the night he had a dream about a girl Catherine. Thrushcroos Grange is the home of Linton and represents stabilityand kindness]]> 2017-05-25 17:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173874186 Themes caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173875708 There are many Gotic elements such as dreams, ghost, struggle, hate and love, moors, death. Other themes are property and marriage.]]> 2017-05-25 17:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173875708 William Wordsworth caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173902466 He lived in the Lake District, in the North-West of England and drew inspirations from landscapes around him. He is considered the father of Romanticism in England]]> 2017-05-25 20:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173902466 Lyrical Ballads caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173902906 The lyrical ballad was the most important volume of verse that appeared in England for more than two centuries. It uses:
    -Ordinary subject and ordinary language to create a poetry accesible to all
    -the poet as "man speaking to men", so a man with more imagination that is able to communicate to other.]]>     2017-05-25 20:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173902906     Themes of Lyrical Ballads caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173903304 -Nature as the countryside: the scenes described are always populated by nature not men
    -Nature as a source of inspiration:poets used to describe nature like the relationship between man and nature
    -Nature like life power: The pantheistic view of God inside the nature]]>     2017-05-25 20:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173903304     Mary Shelley caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173903737 Was born in 1797. She had a troubled life. She went to France and got married with the poet Percy Shelley. She wrote Frenkestein, her masterpiece, inspired by ghost-stories of that period. ]]> 2017-05-25 20:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173903737 Frankestein caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173904319 She dedicated Frankestein to Godwin and used many ideas hel by the parents. She sympathises with the monster, but she is afraid of the consequences of his actions. There is tension between the fear of revolution and interesgt in revolutionary ideas. Frankestein tries to create a human being through the use of electricity without respecting nature rules.
    Themes: penetration of nature and social prejudice]]>     2017-05-25 20:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173904319     Jane Austin caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173905056 She began writing verse, prose and drama. When she returned to the countryside she made Pride and Prejudice]]> 2017-05-25 21:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173905056 Pride and Prejudice caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173905376 Main themes:
    -Reletionship between individual and society
    -Use of freedom and consequences
    -Love and marriage.]]>     2017-05-25 21:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/173905376     Oscar Wilde caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208498196 Was born in Dublin in 1854. He become the leader of the Aesthetic Movement. The first litterary success come in 1891 with a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was imprisoned in Reading Jail for his homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. He died in 1900.]]> 2017-11-19 17:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208498196 The Preface caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208499239 In the preface Wilde states that the artist is the creator of beautiful things ]]> 2017-11-19 17:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208499239 The Picture of Dorian Gray caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208499796 The novel is set in London at the end of 19th century. The protagonist Dorian Gray, a young man whose beauty fascinates a painter, Basil Hallward, who paints his portrait. When he sees that is image was corrupted he kills himself.]]> 2017-11-19 17:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208499796 Rudyard Kipling caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208501038 He was born in Bombai, India in 1865 and worked there has a journalist and story writer. He wrote the novel Kim]]> 2017-11-19 17:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208501038 The White Man's Burden caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208502159 In this work Kipling states that the Europeans had to civilize the natives . There is a plea for the European task of civilizing indians. The main themes are Whites' civilising mission and Blacks' inferiority.]]> 2017-11-19 17:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208502159 Kim caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208502498 Is the story of an orphan living in india at the time of British rule. Kipling describes Indian' s sights, sounds and smells. He use a evocative language.]]> 2017-11-19 18:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208502498 Edward Morgan Forster caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208504199 Was born in 1879. He studied at Cambridge and he travalled in Italy and India. He wrote A Passage to India]]> 2017-11-19 18:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208504199 A Passage To India caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208504795 Is Forster' s masterpiece. The novel is divided into three parts, which corresponde to the Indian season: Mosque, Caves and Temple. The main theme is the difficult relationship between Indians and British. It is set in India. Forster criticizes the imperialism. ]]> 2017-11-19 18:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208504795 Salman Rushdie (1947) caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208505556 he was born in India into a middle-class Muslim family. He was sent to school in England]]> 2017-11-19 18:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208505556 Midnight' s Children caccamo_r https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208506113 The heart of Midnight' s Children is the narrator Saleem Sinai who was born at midnight on 15th august 1947. He has extraordinary powers.
    In Rushdie' s novel there is a mixture of fantasy and reality (magic realism). 
    Rushdie deals with some historical events. The narration is in the first person . 
    The main theme is the destruction of potential in the new independent India.]]>     2017-11-19 18:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/caccamo_r/xw04fpt698s6/wish/208506113