Es 1

1. he is an emigrant
2. Mohajir’s engender is involved in the conquest of the force of gravity
3. he compares gravity to belonging
4. They are a myth that keep people in their places
5. Flying and fleeing 
6. He supposes that pharmaceutical companies could create an anti- gravity pill
7. World’s airlines would be broken
8. Special water- proof clothes and some directional booster engine
9. Pill would make everyone a migrant
10. The best is hopefulness, the worst is the emptiness of their luggage

 

Es 2

First he is an emigrant from Italy, second he is an immigrant in England where he lives and also in Pakistan. His family moved to Pakistan.

 

Es 3

A bird and the act of flying

 

Es 4

Gravity keeps everything stuck on Earth. Sense of belonging keeps men linked to their own countries.

 

Es 5

He plays with “flight” and “flee”. They are linked with the concept of escaping.

 

Es 6

He imagines the invention of a pill that makes fly so escape easily. He imagines people taking different pills according to their need of flying, where and how long. He also imagines new colthes and engines linked to the pill.

The description creates a sense of absurd.

 

Es 7

He seems to be in favour of moving.

 

Es 8

Be informed about the place you travel to

Respect people

Respect the environment

Learn the language

 

Es 9

Chatwin says that many people to make journeys uses drugs. Their minds start running everywhere but these are fake journeys. He thinks that people should walk paths that listened to for example from literature but the important thing is not to be stucked. People should always travel.

 

Es 1 pag 179

1 customs duties

2 raw materials

3 smuggling

4 Bribery

5 satire

6 coffehouse

7common sense

8 morals

9 vice

10 virtue

 

 

Es 2

Stable

Tradition

Elegant

Witty

materialist/material/materialistic

Responsive

Hierarchy

Heredity

Privileged

individualistic/individual

Pessimism

Optimistic

 

Es 3

1660-1685

Parlamentarians

Wealthy and commercial classes, commercial development, a vigorous foreign policy, religious toleration

The liberal party in the 1860s

 

1679-80

The royalists

The church of England, the land owners, divine right of the king

Conservative party in 1832

 

Es 4

At first all cabinet ministers were equal but, as time went by, certain ministers began to lead the others. The leading minister in the cabinet came to be known as the prime minister.

Whig ministers used to meet without the king and their meetings developed into the kind of government by cabinet, which Britain still has today.

 

Es 5

1F he was a whig landowner

2T

3T

4F George II relied on him

5T

6F He was a whig

7T

 

Es 6

1 materialist

2 hierarchical, hereditary and privileged

3 local landowners

4 bribery

5 individualism