SEE

1-      The animal is a turkey.

2-      They are two people, a man and a woman, dressed like two Puritans.

3-      The people in the foreground are wearing Puritans dresses as well.

THINK

1-      The symbol of turkey and the historical dresses.

2-      According to the turkey and the dresses, the picture represents the festivity of Thanksgiving.

3-      The scene may be from today’s world because of the turkey float.

WONDER

1-      Celebrating origins is important for a community, and in this case American people enjoy celebrating Puritans as the founders of their culture.

2-      The presence of the float and people wearing historical dresses make the festivity resemble Carnival.

3-      Italy has many national symbols: the flag, food, whatever regards Ancient Rome, Carnival...

EX. 1

1.G   2.E   3.A   4.F   5.B   6.C

EX. 2

1-      The experiment demonstrated that Americans solved more anagrams with salvation on their mind; it means the idea of salvation makes people work harder and be more motivated.

2-      Americans seem to share the prudishness of the Puritans, since they judge women more harshly than British.

3-      He answers to “Do present-day Americans still exhibit...” with “It seems we do”: by using the word “we”, he associates himself with American people.

4-      Despite religion seems to be not so relevant for American people, Puritan values guide their moral judgements. It is paradoxical since Puritanism is actually related to religion.    

5-      New England’s influence deals with the “intellectual tradition” present in many aspects of their society, from universities to writings.

EX. 3

Paragraph 2: Experiments about the protestant work ethic

Paragraph 3: Anagrams solved thanks to salvation

Paragraph 4: Judgement about promiscuous women

Paragraph 5: Puritanical intermingling of work, sex and morality

Paragraph 6: The influence of New England

Paragraph 7: Is American psyche related to Puritanism?

Paragraph 8: Tocqueville nowadays