We got into the novel during the last few lessons and had a really close look at the characters. I don’t know if you also got that feeling but I think we definitely need to do something on the background, the setting of the two plotlines. So, homework for Monday is to create pages in your blogs which contain information on Satipur and Simla, as well as the Hippies in India in the seventies (Goa might be a starting point). As Satipur, as you might want to point out, is fictional places, you have to use what you can get from the text and what you can find on the net about similar places to complete this task.

Also, read on to page 76. Keep working on your blog, i.e. present summaries, information on the characters, your thoughts on what you read (e.g. the development of the plot, behaviour of the characters, stylistic features).

A comment concerning pictures: Remember, there is a copyright on almost everything on the net. Be careful not to just use any picture you find. Try the Wikimedia Commons for free material that you are allowed to use without any copyright inflictions. There also is Stock Xchng where you have to register and then usually only inform the owner of a picture to be okay to use it without any copyright problems.

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