Summers Reading

index 

1———————————-Title 

2———————————index 

3-4———–Bernardo Malamud 

5-6———————–question “H”

7-8——————post reading”2″

9-10—————Post reading”5″

Bernardo Malamud: 

Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Bertha (née Fidelman) and Max Malamud, Russian Jewish immigrants. A brother, Eugene, born in 1917, lived a hard and lonely life and died in his fifties. Malamud entered adolescence at the start of the Great Depression. From 1928 to 1932, Bernard attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. During his youth, he saw many films and enjoyed relating their plots to his school friends. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin’s comedies. Malamud worked for a year at $4.50 a day as a teacher-in-training, before attending college on a government loan. He received his B.A. degree from City College of New York in 1936. In 1942, he obtained a master’s degree from Columbia University, writing a thesis on Thomas Hardy. He was excused from military service in World War II because he was the sole support of his widower father. He first worked for the Bureau of the Census in Washington D.C., then taught English in New York, mostly high school night classes for adults. 

Starting in 1949, Malamud taught four sections of freshman composition each semester at Oregon State University (then Oregon State College, or OSC), an experience fictionalized in his 1961 novel A New Life. Because he lacked the Ph.D., he was not allowed to teach literature courses, and for a number of years his rank was that of instructor. In those days, OSC, a land grant university, placed little emphasis on the teaching of humanities or the writing of fiction. While at OSC, he devoted three days out of every week to his writing, and gradually emerged as a major American author. In 1961, he left OSC to teach creative writing at Bennington College, a position he held until retirement. In 1967, he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1) Look back at your answer to exercise “A” on page 32 compare your goals to George. Are they similar or different? What other goals would you add to the list?

My goals:

1) Having a high-paying job

2) Living in a nice house

3) Having a loving family

4) Having good friends

5) Being respected by other

6) Being famous, powerful or influential

George’s goals:

1) Having a girlfriend

2) Having money

2) Having a good job

4) Having a family

5) Being respected by others

As you see, me and George having many goals in common like:

We both dream to have a good work and a good job in life, also we dreamed to have a good family that loves us. As well we dream to have people how respect us.

2) Write a letter from George to mr.Cattanzara ten years after the story ends:

30/10/017

Dear Mr. Cattanzara

I don’t know how I will reward you to change my life to the best, and I will thank you allot because you warns me before I lose my chance in life…

Thank you for ever.

From: George

3) Imagine that you are George at the end of the story. Write a summary of the first book that you chose to read to read, explain why you chose it? 

If I was George I will chose the book “think and grow rich” because it have so many things that helps George to achieve his dreams. 

This book will make George’s life better and more successful than the bast when he was do nothing in his life.