B2 Literary Mayhem 17/2, The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

again, before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations (by e-mail) and to check out new books in library: 

here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and here https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=119iEakjLOTuZ2XXmx1TkRziHhmC0b3GnAmQEFp4

Hello again from John Steinbeck,

and I believe that "Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed."

Here's some of mine, from my 1961 novel, The Winter Of Our Discontent, for you to read until next week:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHY1hocTRNVHRRSTIxTVU1Wk5SRmstdw

We are also going to listen to an excerpt from my 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance speech, which you can see here:

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1303

or here

John Steinbeck - Nobel Prize Speech - YouTube
► 5:27► 5:27	www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SKEODtaQUU3. aug. 2010 - 5 min. - John Steinbeck's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 ...

B2 Literary Mayhem 17, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations and to check out new books in library: 

here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and here https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=119iEakjLOTuZ2XXmx1TkRziHhmC0b3GnAmQEFp4

Hello gang, 

my name is John Steinbeck, and I'm telling you this:

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

 I am going to be your host for the next two weeks starting with my 1945 novel about Cannery Row in Monterrey, California:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHTzBIMFppQ05RQml2NzdndFVzai12UQ

Cannery Row

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses... 

more:

audio to chapter: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHQUFMR1FGZjVSck9IanJ4U2kwUzdkZw

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   Steinbeck's Cannery Row - C-SPAN Video Library  c-spanvideo.org25 Apr 2002 - 17 min Mr. Hemp talked about Cannery Row in Monterey, JohnSteinbeck's novels, and Steinbeck's treatment of ...

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   Our drive along Steinbeck's Cannery Row in ...  youtube.com21 Apr 2009 - 3 min - Uploaded by AvikJan This is Cannery Row made famous by author John Steinbeckwho wrote the Grapes or Rath and Of Mice and ...

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 16/2 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

BEFORE YOU READ THIS: please remember we will start the class discussing one quote you liked from what we've read so far.

Hello again,

you might know me as Ray Bradbury and I am going to continue telling you my story about a fireman, called Guy Montag and his young friend, Clarisse McCLellan

here it is: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHbVJEdGlweTZRNnlGZl8zclI4X0N1Zw

The story is from the novel Fahrenheit 451. You might borrow the novel from you teacher, or read it online.

You fail only if you stop writing ~ Ray Bradbury 

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 16 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

before you read this: please don't forget your answers/quotes on The Great Gatsby. We'll start from those and have some fun with translation.

Hello fellow humans,

they call me Ray Bradbury and my job is to help you fall in love. "A life's work should be based on love," is what I say..

In the course of my life (I was born in 1920), I have written over ten novels and innumerable collections of short stories. 

But the one I value the most is called Fahrenheit 451. It is a dystopian novel, and 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book paper burns.

Here's what we're going to read together:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHM1BsNzd5ak1TbVM2andDMXo0emMzdw

if you're interested, you can also read the whole book online or borrow it from me

Enjoy!

p.s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzc67YuRQE

Iconic author Ray Bradbury and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner talk with LATimes.com blogger Geoff Boucher (Hero Complex) about how TV and radio inspired Fahrenheit 451, the connection between the novel and Playboy magazine and why Bradbury thinks of himself as a "pomegranate."