ACTIVITIES PAGES 177-178

COMPREHENSION

1)he is an emigrant

2)his theory is: that the mohajers’  resentments  have something to do with their conquest

3)he compares gravity to belonging

4)he thinks that roots are a conservative myth designed to keep people in their places

5)the two ways of looking for freedom are fly and flee

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

7)the consequences are that the world’s airlines would go broke overnight and poppers would come unstuck from the ground.

8) it would be necesary a special water-proof flying garments and some directional booster engine.

9)the pill would make migrants

10) the best thing is their hopefulness, the worst thng is the emptiness of their lugguage

ANALYSIS

2) He is an emigrant from India and at the same time a newcomer of Pakistan and England.

3) the metaphor is that of a bird and the flight

4) gravity keeps men on the Earth. The sense of belonging is what keep a man linked to his roots

5)he plays with the words “flight”and “flee” since they mean “escape” and imply a sense of freedom.

6) he tells about a world where people desire to belong to a place. He imagines a world where people make flying taking a pill. The description is surreal and absurd.

7) the narrator seems to be in favour of the idea of migration

8)be respectful of people and enviroment. Know language to comunicate and informed about the place to stay there.

9) Chatwin’s reflection is based on what is a travel. Firstly journeys were illusory because of the use of vine, hashish and hallucinatory mushrooms. Indeed he said “drugs are veichles for people who have forgotten how to walk”. Nowadays journeys are more effective than faked ones. In his opinion people should tread the steps of Hesiod or follow the Taoist sages.