Later, when July takes possession of the truck, Maureen sees that their servant has become their master, controlling the family s fate. The lack of quotation marks and unfamiliar setting make this a challenging novel. Included are an interview in which the author discusses her writing, suggestions for the use of a reading log, and an introduction to the story, its themes, and its style. Concluding sections include a glossary and a study programme focussing on analysis and response. This engaging edition provides a chronology of events in the life of Henry V, a map, a family tree of the French and English royal families, and information about the play in the context of other Shakespearean history plays.
Questions following each act are suitable for individual or group activity.
Concluding pages present the play s literary and historic context, further ideas to promote understanding and response, discussion of the language, images, and themes in the play, a chronology of Shakespeare s life and works, information about the play s sources and its various productions, and suggestions for staging the play. Winnie Louie is the widowed matriarch of a large Chinese-American family in San Francisco. This story centres on Torontonian Pat Keane and his Vietnamese girlfriend, Hia Thi Loi. When Pat reluctantly visits the remote Irish village in which his father was raised, he hears the villagers stories of his father s renown as a gifted fiddler during the 1950s. Pat s journey to his roots enables him to see his own musical talent in perspective.