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TITLE:              Silas Marner

PUBLISHING HOUSE: Longman

GRADE:            Four

NOVELLIST:      George Eliot  

CHARACTERS:   Silas Marner: main character

                        William Dane: Silas'best friend

                        Sarah: the woman who loved Silas

                        Mr Paston: the minister

                        Jam: who found Silas

Sally Oates: Silas cured her

The Squire Cass

Dunstan Cass: Squire's youngest son

Godfrey Cass: Squire's oldest son

Molly: Godfrey's first wife

Nancy: Godfrey's girlfriend and second wife

Dolly Winthrop: a woman who lived in the village

Priscilla: Nancy's sister

Aaron: Dolly's son

Jane: Godfrey's servant

Eppie: Godfrey and Molly's daughter and the girl who Silas found

SETTINGS:               Lantern Yard: where Silas lived before the beginning of the story

                        Ravaloe: the town where Silas lived

                        Stone-pit: where Silas' house was

                        The Church

TOPPICS:         The story is about a man who had to go away from his town and go to live in a new village. Here he worked all the time and he earned a lot of money that Dunstan stolen. Then he found a baby and he grow up the child who didn't have a mum and didn't know who her dad was. Later she discovered that her dad was Godfrey and in the end she married Aaron.

THEMES:          Love

                        Religious Belief

                        Sadness

                        Materialism

                        Betrayal

MESSAGE:         You must always believe in God

                        You mustn't betray the friends

                        Material things aren't very important for the life

                        You mustn't deceive other people

                        You mustn't steal

                        You must groom your family

                        You mustn't leave children

                        The time is precious

NEW WORDS OR VERBS:

Rather: piuttosto

Stone-pit: rovine

To dug: scavare

Weaver: tessitore

Closet: intimo

Faults: difetti

Fear: paura

Blame: colpa

To hurt: ferire

Deeply: profondamente

Trouble: guaio

Kness: ginocchia

Underneath: sotto

Wise: saggio

To bear: sopportare

Loom: telaio

Inn: locanda

Heavy: pesante

Fit: crisi

To drive away: scacciare

Well: pozzo

Pot: pentola

Hole: buco

Bricks: mattone

Tearher: pelle

To blame: biasimare

To lie: mentire

Besides: inoltre

Lamp: lampada

Pedlar: ambulante

Shame: vergogna

To be shamed: vergognarsi