מבחן a summer's reading

Vocabulary

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Quit, impulse

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Uncomfortable

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Wander

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Ashamed

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Occasionally

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Hesitate

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Resemble

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Rumor

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Confidence

Basic Understanding

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The story takes place in the great depression in the summer in New York.

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1. A girlfriend
2. Money

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1. He read the New York times which is a more worthwhile paper
2. He was more educated because he read the New York times

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George's father: worked in a fish market and he had to children

Sophie: she is George's sister and she gave George magazines

Analysis and Interpretation

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It suggest that he is more educated than the other people in the neighborhood.

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Mr. Cattanzara's role in George's life is to make a change in his life for an example because of Mr. Cattanzara in the end of the story George went to the library and actually counted 100 books.

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He mean that if George will do that he will end up like him because he lives in a bad neighborhood and has a sick wife and his life is bad.

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To show him how he will feel if he will actually read 100 books.

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I think that reading books is the first step in George's way back to school. I think that George will go back to school and that he will finish school.

Making a Connection

I have taken question 1:

A summer's reading is a story that really has a moral lesson because in the story George's life is really bad until everyone think that he is reading books so George is teaching us that when you are educated people actually admire you and he is also teaching us that life is better when you are educated in general so the saying that "Bernard Malamud is known for telling stories that have a moral lesson" is relevant to the story