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THE
ITALIAN 1. What is Beppo's job in Italy? 2. Who else wants to marry Annetta? 3. What is Beppo’s first job in America? 4. What is the name of the slumlord? 5. What special food is needed to heal Beppo’s sickly son? 6. Why is he arrested? 7. Whom did he ask for help? 8. What happens to his son? 9. Whose house does he break in to commit mischief?
10.
What
is his goal when he enters the house?
SON OF
ITALY 1. What is the new fruit he discovers in America? 2. What kind of jobs does he find with his gang? 3. Who steals Matteo’s while they are in NY? 4. What causes his gang to break up? 5. What does Pascal’s father decide to do after the break up? 6. What kind of injury does Pascal suffer while pushing a wheel barrow? 7. What is the first musical instrument Pascal tried to learn? 8. Does Pascal have a natural talent for music? 9. What happens to the first instrument he tried to play? 10. Which magazine published his first poem? 11. What is the Commissary System? How does it work? 12. Wheelbarrow.
13.
The
mandolin. DIRECT
QUOTATIONS Page 65: "And we set to digging and handling our picks and shovels. And I have been handling them ever since." Page 71:
"Our first four years in America....." Page 71:
"(...) that's what I was able to do, and this is what I work at even
now." Page 72:
"All my works are lost..." Page 68: “None of us, including myself, ever thought of
a movement to broaden our knowledge of the English language.” Page 103: "We were pigs in our sty." Page 133: “I always was and I am a pick and shovel man. That’s all I am
able to do, and that is what I am forced to do, even now. Work with my arms. |
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1. Which one of the two texts should be the first on the syllabus: SON or Italian? And why? 2. Do you agree that Italian is a step up from Son, in terms of social “mobility?” Explain why. 3. What does Pascal see when he looks up at Beppo?
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