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  English homework

Activity on the story A Summer’s Reading by – Bernard Malamud

 Submitted by – Kamal Nama

Submitted to Amira Asadi

Table of Contents

Bernard Malamud………………………………………………………………5

Immigration to the USA (YouTube)……………………6

My goals to George’s goals (similar or different)………………………7-8

A letter to Mr. Cattanzara………………………………………………….9-10

Bernard Malamud

was born on April 26, 1914, was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in Tsarists Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Exercise.H-

look back at your answers 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 ? 

The reason George chose this path in his life and wants to be educated is to achieve the American Dream and have a job, a house, a car … etc.

However, the reason why i want to learn and get educated is because I have a passion for education, I like to learn new things and be more aware of the different aspects of life, education is my goal itself.

Post Reading

Write a letter from George to Mr. Cattanzara ten years after the story ends ?

Dear Mr. Cattanzara,

It’s been 10  years since I last saw you, it was when you advised me to follow my dream and be successful, even though you didn’t say it like that literally, you said “don’t do what I did”, you encouraged me to wake up and realize that I’m not going to achieve  my dream by just sitting down and do nothing, so I got up and started reading those 100 books witch was a start to my love for books and education, then I read more and more, I couldn’t get enough because reading opened a whole new world to me where poverty and ignorance could always be beaten. In the end I found myself moving forward and approaching my dream, till I reached it. Even though I’m the one that worked hard, but you had a big part of my success, that’s why I wrote this letter, to thank you for making what once seemed impossible, possible.

George!