Bridging Text And Context page – 49
The background information tells us about Bernard Malamud, the writer of the story "A Summer's Reading". It tells us who he is, what he is writing about and what is the message that he is trying to deliver through his writing. The information says that the main subject of his writing is about characters that are often awkward and isolated from society. In "A Summer's Reading" the main character, George, is searching for hope and meaning within poor urban settings.
Like the background information about Bernard Malamud, the writer of the story "A Summer's Reading" choose(gr.) to write about George, (Start a new sentence) his age is close to twenty, (he is) a loner, with no job and education, he is poor, he doesn't communicate with the people in his neighborhood and he is searching to improve his life.
In "A Summer's Reading" George lies about him trying to pick up his education,(New setence) he lied because he wanted to impress Mr. Catanzara so he wouldn't think that he was a lazy, dumb person who wasn't doing anything with his life.
In the story "A Summer's Reading", education is very important, if someone has education it makes it easier to get a job and money, George didn't had(gr.) (an) education so he didn’t had(gr.) a job so(מיותר). he felt the need to lie so no one will(gr.) think he is(gr.) lazy.
George felt embarrassed in front of Mr. Catanzara, who was his only friend, (new sentence)he wanted him to respect him so he lied to him and told him that he was reading to pick up his education.
The moment that George had to lie to Mr. Catanzara is the awkward situation in "A Summer's Reading" of Bernard Malamud, it is (also) the starting point of the change in Georg's personality and in his life.
The information helped me understand the purpose of each event in the story between each character(phr.), it helped me understand George's character, his difficulties and the reason for his actions in the story.
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Daphna
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