A Trip to Grand Rapids

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Ferhat Gür 3.y        Engelsk B        30/10 2008

Greve Gymnasium        HC – Hanne Christiansen

Section B - A Trip to Grand Rapids – 835 words

  1. Write a Summary in no more than 150 words of Roger Hedlund’s experience of the party described in “A Trip to Grand Rapids”.

Roger Hedlund has a farm with his wife, and has two daughters; Cathy and Martha. Martha has a new kitten and Roger has made a rule that it has to stay outdoors. Martha does not understand it. This and the rain are giving Roger a lot of thinking time. Roger knows that the rain is good for the farmer, but he want to get the corn planted, but it is still raining the next days. Roger gets so nervous that he could not sit down. Cindy wants him to go away, that he drives them crazy. Therefore, his two teenage girls ought them to go.

  They went off to Grand Rapids, but on the way, he worries about the girls. He is curious, what is going on at home and they went back for a look. When he saw his little daughter with a cigarette, the many years before that flashes in his mind, it reminds him of the parties they used to go to – the very same kind of parties where he and his wife met. At the farmyard, there is loud music and many teenage kids, and then he understands that his teenage daughters not were little girls anymore. Cindy looks at him and they go back and begin their trip to Grand Rapids. (216 words)

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  1. Characterize Roger Hedlund and his relationship to his family.

Roger is a strict man, and he is the man of the house and he makes the rules. But right from the start we discover that inside of him there is a softer side. We hear how he commands the cat to be outside but when the rainy night comes he soften up and goes out in the rain to find the kitten.

  Roger Hedlund is also a man with a lot of worries. He is a farmer and get blue when his corn is destroyed by ...

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