Journal Blog 5 (p. 73…76)

 

Questions I want to wright about:

- Write a short letter to the author/ playwright or to one of the characters. Tell them what is on your on your mind.

 

Dear Mr. Birling

I am the Pastor of your village, Joachim Wagner. From Eric I have heard the whole story you had as a family yesterday evening. That an inspector did asked you some questions and that you also found out what Erics problems are and what he did to get money for his girl who was pregnant.

Eric has told me, that his relation to you is down at the moment.

 I understand him. He is a young man who did a mistake and he is sorry about that. It’s not easy for such a young man to handle right in such an impractical situation. He just wanted to do the best of this unpleasant situation. He told me, that he really wants to pay you this money back he had stolen from you.

Eric is a honest young man. And he wants to have a better relationship between you and him. He even came to me and asked for advice how to make this father- son relationship better again.

Because of that, Mrs. Birling I would like to invent you and Eric for Friday evening to diner. Afterward we could talk about your problems and how to make your relationship better.

 

Best regards,

 

Joachim Wagner

 

Words: 240

 

 

Comments

  1. Julia H.13 December 2017 at 06:36

    Interesting! The task was actually to write to the character in the book from the readers perspective, not from a new character. But I really like this angle. I might take this up as a new task for future Action Plans etc.

    "Invent" means "erfinden". You mean "invite".
    To "handle right" is incorrect. You would say "to act right" or "to handle the situation correctly".

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Journal Blog 2

Journal Blog 2 (p.18 …)   Questions I want to wright about: Words I’m unsure of their meaning: Word :                               my translation :                      dictionary: nodding                             (zustimmen)                            nicken confidentially                    einverstanden           ...
Read more
Journal Blog 1 (p. 7…18)   Questions I want to wright about: -        Write about something happening in the book that you can relate to? How did you react, Try to put yourself in the characters shoes and say why you think they feel the way the way they do.   In these pages in the beginning of the story, we get to know main characters a little bit. I know now Mr. and Mrs. Birlings and their children Eric and Sheila, who is just engaged with her love Gerald. I want to pick out Erics character. I realized that Eric reacted in some dialogs between the different members unsuitable. For example, he suddenly started laughing in the middle of a happy family talk. (p. 9) Another example for his dubious behaviour is showed on page 11. In this situation, he makes an unpleasant statement about Sheila, after the parents have wished all the best for the young couple. This expression was not very friendly and as I already said: very mispla...
Read more
Journal Blog 8   Questions I want to wright about: -        Say what you think the author is trying to do or say. What is the author’s main message or purpose? Say how well you think the author succeeds in what he is attempting and give reasons for your answers.   Now we have finished reading this play “An Inspector Calls”. I think it has a special end. I mean that, because the end is created, that quite everything I was thinking while reading is collapsed in the end. The whole story seems to begin again, which makes, that the theatre has an open and undefined end. This open end let me start thinking about a possible end and why the author had written such an odd end. Here I want to tell what I had thought the author wants to tell through his stage play before I read the remarks in German which explain the real purpose behind this theatre.   It was difficult for me to take the end of this book like it is written. A...
Read more