Textuality » 5ALS Interacting
1. We have read that you took inspiration from a famous writer and traveller to tell your experience. What struck you more about Patrick Leigh Fermor?
2.In your text you talk about your grandfather. How did you manage to keep in touch with this figure?
3. What kind of people and/or testimonies did you come across?
4. Which are the most important Great War perceptions that you have collected from the testimonies you have come across?
5. We are carrying out this activity during our English lessons. Why didi you decide to start your journey from England? And how were English testimonies similar or/and different from those of other countries?
6. What was your perception of Canterbury, city of great pilgrimages and religious and painful sceneries?
7. In our work we are dealing with the meaning and the role of women during the Firt World War. What is your opinion?
8. Do you think that the war modified women's perception about themselves and about their personal and social identity?
9. Do you believe that knowing the war from perceptions, documents, poems, novels, diaries and other media is useful to think that war can solve problems?
10. There have been controversial positions in English poetry. What do you think about it and which are your considerations?
11. What is the meaning of the memory of war during a period where global conflicts are increasing and the need of a more cohesive England is stronger?
12. As a journalist, what is your opinion about writing a diary, or better a memory?