2) Dave Dickinson was a recent widowed man, his wife Connie died with cancer3. The significant event that happened was when he began dating Maryam Yazdam. He was feeling awful after his wife death, he couldnt think of anyone else. But then, he started feeling lonely in his big house and began finding excuses to be near to Maryam, an Iranian woman, very in touch with her culture. She had difficulties to attach to people, she had her own independent life. But they became very close, he was impressed by her, he wanted to know more about her costumes, he wanted to be with her, sometimes he caught himself thinking of her in a different way. After a while, he realized was in love with her, and then, they began a relationship with the culture conflict, but love won after all
3) The book shows how the United States became a melting pot, with different people of distinct countries in the same environment. At the same time, it relates how dificult is to understand other peoples costumes , it shows that everybody must respect and learn how to deal with the others .
Of course its hard for people who learnt things in a way, see others acting on the exact diferent way, it´s hard to accept in the beginng, but with pacience and open mind, convive with other cultures is a way to expand knowledge and life experiences, exchanging informantions, daily costumes and life stories...
I can totally understand the situation, in the deep inside we are all the same, and we must respect each other no matter what choices of culture we have.
4)The author was successful. Anne Tyler is known around the globe for writing daily routine novels, what is amazing about that, is that even when she writes about normal things, her books still interesting and very unique. They have deep descriptions of the characters, it is shaprly observed , fact that makes the reader enter deeply in the story, materializing the characteristics and personalities of each characters in the novel. She brought on her novel a very controversial theme, in which any persons has lots of diferente thoughts and disagreements, what makes the book very discussable. Despite the fact that reading this piece is incredible, we cant see time passing during it.
Since the beginning of the story, we can see the differences between the cultures. The kids arrival celebrating party for example showed the differences of food and people, because there was a mix of cultures such as Korean, american and iranian.
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Where do you got the idea of writing this novel?
What is your opinion of adopting kids from other countries and inserting them into a new culture?
If you were in the place of the characters, how would you act between the cultural conflicts that they passed through?
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1.Dimmed(page 5)-make or become less bright or distinct
2.Wandered off(page 5). walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way:
3.Glanced (page 9)- a brief or hurried look
4.Bassinet(page 10)- a baby's wicker cradle, usually with a hood.
5.Stubbornly(page 13)- having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something
6.Widowed(page 15)- make into a widow or widower
7.Farewell(page 23)- used to express good wishes on parting
8.Unpleasantness(page 34)- the state or quality of being unpleasant.
9.Throng(page 42)- A large, densely packed crowd of people or animals:
10.Pummeling(page 51)- Strike repeatedly, typically with the fist
11.Rueful(Page 51)- Expressing sorrow or regret
12.Lackadaisical(page 64)- Lacking enthusiasm and determination
13.Grueling(page 68)- A thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal boiled
14.Endured(page 68)-Suffer
15.Dauntlessness (page 80)- Showing fearlessness and determination.
16.Slouched(page 93)-Stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way.
17.Chuckling(page 139)- To laugh quietly or to oneself. 18.Dwell(page 139)- a slight regular pause in the motion of a machine.
19.Putterer(page 144)- To waste time in idling.
20.Vowed(page 146)- A set of such promises committing one to a prescribed role, calling, or course of action, typically to marriage or a monastic career.
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