About movers

Es 1

1)     The speaker is a mohajir, an emigrant.

2)     He has a theory, indeed, he says that the resentments they engender have something to do with the conquest of the force of gravity.

3)     He compares gravity to belonging.

4)     He thinks roots are a conservative myth designed to keep people in their places.

5)     The two ways of looking for freedom are to fly and to flee.

6)     He supposes the most important pharmaceutical companies might come up with an anti-gravity pill.

7)     Its consequences are that the world’s airlines would go broke overnight and pill-poppers would come unstuck from the ground and float upwards until they sank into the clouds.

8)     A special water-proof flying garments and some kind of directional booster-engine, perhaps in back-pack form.

9)     The pill would make migrants of us all.

10)The best thing is their hopefulness, the worst thing is the emptiness of their luggage.

Es 2

He is an emigrant from India and at the same time a newcomer to both England, where he lives, and Pakistan, where, instead, his family has moved against his will.

Es 3

The metaphor is that of a bird and the act of flying.

Es 4

Gravity is what keeps man and the sense of belonging is what keeps a man linked to his own land and country, that is, his roots.

Es 5

He plays with the word “flight” and “flee” since they share the meaning of “escape” and therefore imply a sense of freedom.

Es 6

6.1 He describes a world where people do not desire to belong to a place but the opposite. He thinks people taking different pills according to the lengths of journey they want to make, floating among the clouds and landing gently in the place of destination.

6.2 The effect of this type of description is humorous and absurd.

Es 7

In my opinion, the narrator is in favour of the idea of moving, because migrant people are full of hope and ready to filled with new future experiences.

Es 8

In my opinion, to become a responsible tourist or traveller we need to some rules. First of all we have to learn a few words of the language of the place where we travel because we should being able to speak. Moreover we must respect the environment and for doing this we have to choose non-polluting forms of transport like bike and electrical cars. Certainly we must be respectful of local culture.

Es 9

In my opinion, Bruce Chatwin analyses restlessness of the human being to remove it.

He recognises it directly in the human brain because he have to work with external symbols and in this way he underlines the big importance of the journey and we must to

pay attention to not become slaves of drugs.

Moreover, we must follow the example of the sages.