Indholdsfortegnelse
Fokuspunkter:
Analysis: Part 1
1. Divide the following words into two groups and give each a heading.
2. Fill in the gaps.
3.
a. Which of the following adjectives do you think Ali would use to characterize Parvez?
b. Which adjectives would you use to characterize Parvez?
c. Which adjectives would you use to characterize Ali?
Analysis: Part 2
1. Discuss what fanaticism is. You may want to google the concept. What can you be fanatic about? Why has it become a word with negative connotations?
2. Consider the title of the short story "My Son the Fanatic". What does Kureishi want us - the readers - to think? But what happens at the very end of the story?
3. Describe the overall plot of the short story (e.g. are there any flashbacks?). Remember page references.
4. Characterize the three characters Parvez, Ali and Bettina (e.g. what do they want from life? How do they treat other people? Are they round or flat characters?). Remember quotations and page references.
- Bettina:
- Parvez
- Ali:
5. What are the themes and messages of this short story? Does Kureishi take sides?
- Summary
- Poem in Jamiacan
- Robin Cook: Chicken Tikka Masala Speech
Read THIS theory on rhetoric. Some of it should be familiar to you since you work with rhetoric during your Danish lessons as well.
1. Spend 10 minutes researching the speaker Robin Cook. Who was he?
Part 2: Comprehension & Analysis
1. Why does the globalised world demand more foreign contacts than ever? (According to Cook): Aya t
2. What does it mean to be "secure in our British identity" (p. 38, 1. 8)? How may this increase the chances of British success in the world?: Aya t
3. In what ways has Britain been unusually open to external influence throughout history?: Aya t
4. Explain the negative ideas of immigration. What does it mean that Britain is said to be under siege and in a state of terminal decline (p. 39,11. 4-5)? What ideas of British national history, culture, identity is Robin Cook speaking against?: Aya t
5. In what ways is immigration a necessity for a modern developed country, according to Cook?
- Sofie:
6. In what ways is cultural pluralism and diversity an economic asset? Aya A
7. In what ways does immigration affect British culture positively?
- Sofie:
8. Are there any indications that Robin Cook is more open towards a certain kind of immigrants? If so, who and why? Aya A
9. What connotations do the words "purity" and "ethnicity" have in Cook's speech? Explain how these connotations are different from the traditional connotations of the words. Why does Cook want to change their usual connotations? Erin
10. In what ways is Chicken Tikka Masala a perfect illustration of how British national identity becomes multicultural? How is it a symbol of impurity?
- Sofie:
11. Look at p. 41, 17-21 (the first part of the conclusion). Read it again, carefully. What does it mean that the homogeneity of British identity depended on the unifying force of imperial expansion and the Second World War?
12. In Cook's view, what must replace race and ethnicity as markers of British identity? What should be the unifying force of Britain if the country does not have one race and one culture?
- Sofie:
Part 3: Rhetorical analysis
1. Go through the text, examining rhetorical features typical of political speeches.
- Erin:
2. To what extent does the speech appeal to emotions (pathos) and the reason (logos) respectively?
- Erin:
3. Discuss to what extent you find the speech persuasive, manipulating and informative.
- Sofie:
4. Who is Cook addressing his speech to? Define his target group and explain how it shows in the text. You might want to look up The Social Market Foundation on the Internet.
- Erin:
5. Fill in the pentagon that you read about in section 1.
- Aya A:
- Summary
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Uddrag
Fokuspunkter:
- En introduktion til og anvendelse af begreberne: integration, assimilation, segregation & (national) identity
- En introduktion til og diskussion af begrebet: multiculturalism
- En kort introduktion til UK som multikulturelt samfund og den historiske årsag dertil (England som kolonimagt)
- Filmanalyse
- Retorisk analyse - både analytisk og i praksis
- Digtanalyse
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1. Discuss what fanaticism is. You may want to google the concept. What can you be fanatic about? Why has it become a word with negative connotations?
Fanaticism is a belief or behavior involving an obsessive enthusiasm. The philosopher George Santayana defines fanaticism as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim".
The fanatic displays very strict standards and little tolerance for opposite ideas or opinions.
The following are some of the things you can be a fanatic about:
♢ Religious fanaticism
♢ Consumer fanaticism
♢ Emotional fanaticism
♢ Ethnic/racial supremacist fanaticism
♢ Leisure fanaticism
♢ Nationalistic/patriotic fanaticism
♢ Political,/ideological fanaticism.
♢ Sports fanaticism
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The short story “My Son The Fanatic” is written by Hanif Kureishi. The story is about a conflict between a son’s identity search and a father’s expectations.
It can be difficult to immigrate to another country, especially when it about integrating and every person deals with it differently.
“My Son The Fanatic” is a story about what kinds of consequences it can lead to. The father Parves, who is also the main character, is a hard working english man with pakistani roots and a tendency to alcoholism.
He lives with his wife and son, but he spend most of his time at his work, where he drives a taxi at night, which he actually does to avoid spending time with his wife:
“They preferred to work at night, the roads were clearer and the money better. They slept during the day, avoiding their wives”. → (p. 193, l. 34-36).
Parvez and his wife have in general a quite normal and what some would call a typical muslim relationship, since the wife is a housewife and the husband is working, a relationship without passion or love it seems.
When he, Parves, is at work he feels free, he enjoys spending time with his colleagues and has an unusual close relationship to the prostitute Bettina, who he drives around most nights, according to the narrator that is the only place he can talk from his heart:
“He could talk to her about things he’d never be able to discuss with his own wife”.→ (p. 195 l. 1-2). Besides his abnomal relationship to Bettina, he does other things that are against his “original” culture and religion.
He drink alcohol, eats pork and loves England's democratic values, where he feels free in comparison to Lahore in Pakistan:
“‘But I love England,' Parvez said, watching his boy in the mirror.'They let you do almost anything here.'” → (p. 198, l. 37-38).
The reason behind Parvez leaving his religion behind was after an incident, when he was just a boy in Lahore, when he was degraded in the Koran school: “After his indignity Parvez had avoided all religions” → (p. 196, l. 14).
Without any religion it can be easier to take in a new culture with new norms and this could be an explanation to Parvez’s open-minded thoughts about England.
As he disclaimed his religion, he was short of belonging and membership in something. Therefore he wanted to get fully integrated in England so he could belong to something
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