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1) COMPREHENSION

1. A mohajir, an emigrant

2. The resentment they feel caused the conquest of gravity's force

3. To "belonging to something"

4. A myth made to keep people where they are wanted to be

5. to fly, and to to flee

6. most important pharmaceutical companies will invent an anti-gravity pill

7. chaos, airplanes would be destroyed even unusuable, "pill-poppers" would float until they sink into the clouds

8. water proof flying garments, back pack directional booster machines, to control the movements

9. we would all be migrant, also of ourselves

10. best is their hope, worst their poverty

ANALYSIS

2) He comes from India, indeed he has to live between two foreign countries, Pakistan (where his family has moved to), and England (where he had to migrate).. he is a stranger everywhere he goes, he can't find his roots

3)a bird, his flying, symbolize freedom

4) gravity has a force that keeps people anchored to the ground; also roots have a similar attraction, that make people love their homes, their countries, culture etc. both make people stay

5)flying, fleeing, both plays with the idea of freedom, of running away, of not thinking about your problems

6)the writer imagines a fantastic world where people can fly where they desire; a world where everybody can travel without any limits or problems, where there is no "national" identity, where everybody is just a human living on Earth, the same as the others. This world is clearly unrealistic, absurd, but even if impossible it makes the reader reflect. This view is utopistic and fantastic, but is just hiding a more deep thoguht, that the intelligent reader should be able to discover

7) i think the writer is in favour of migration: he exalts travelling in general, and travelers and migrant people as symbol of hope and human freedom

8) Traveller: should be always polite, gentle; should respect other cultures, religions, beliefs and languages; should be informed of the place he wants to visit, to avoid any kind of problem with law, or with the locals; should not damage the environment, or the place where she/he rests, or eats; should try to be most open-minded possible, and should help when it's needed

9) i guess that Chatwin's thesis deals with the idea that physical travels are but an effective way to make our mind travel too. Everything we make, happens because of our brain: the important is what the brain feels, and if it feels as having a journey, so do people. drugs, alcohol are just a way people found because they are too lazy to incite their minds, or just unable. who is really happy doesn't need those things: the real traveller is who is able to think, to imagine in such a way they feel transported. mind can take you everywhere, imagination too, so maybe the importance of a journey isn't where you go, isn't the travel itself, but is what it makes you imagine.

PAGE 179: OVERVIEW

1) 1. Custom duties 2. Raw materials 3. Smuggling 4. Bribery 5. Satire 6. Coffeehouse 7. Common sense

8. Morals 9. Vice 10. Virtue

2) stable, tradition, elegant, witty, materialistic, responsable, hierarchy, heredity, privileged, individualistic, pessimism, optimistic

3) WHIGS: formed in 1660-1685, descendants of the Parlamentarians, supported by the wealthy classes and fought for commercial development and rights, became the Liberal Party in 1860s

TORIES. formed in 1679-1680, descendants of the royalists, supported by the Church of England and the landowners and fought for divine and king rights, became the Conservative party in 1832

4) PRIME MINISTER: as time passed some of the ministers who teorically had to be equal marked their influence; the most influent became known as the Prime minister

CABINET: the place where Whigs used to meet, without the king

5) 1.F He was a Whig landowner, 2.T, 3.T, 4.F George II wanted him, 5.T, 6.F He was a Whig, 7.T

6) 1.materialistic--2. hierarchical, hereditary and privileged--3. the local landowners--4. bribery--5. individualism