Homework for April 3rd

02Apr08

1. Table

-	Narrator	woman in dormitory	Miss Tietz
appearance	young woman	looks like a ghost, wears a white night-gown, long hair	-
state of mind	confused (in a new country), imagined India different (letters)	likes to talk, shocked about circumstances in India	-
background	from England, granddaughter of Douglas, arrived by plane	very religious (christian), from England, familiar with India	from Swiss, working in S.M. since 10 years, good soul and good cook
aims	wants to get to know more about Olivia	wants to live in God’s will	-

2. The unkempt European:

Hello, my name is Michael Stach and I am 27 years old. I am from Leipzig, which is located in Germany, and now I live in Bombay, India.

I had a really nice childhood in the first 9 years, but at the age of 10 my parents argued very often and two years later they got divorced. Me and my two sisters, who are 2 and 3 years younger than me, moved away from Leipzig with my mother. Our new home Berlin had a bad influence on me. As I look at my childhood from today, I have to say I had wrong friends. They made me be a thief and a criminal. After getting caught while I was robbing out a local candyshop, my mother sent me into a ?orphanage? ( can’t find the right word for “Heim”). This really was the best thing my mum could have done, because the contact to my friends broke up. I got to know new ones, which had a better influence on me. At the age of 17 I fell in love with a girl in the orphanage. We were together for near 1 year, but then she were adopted by an English family. Without her the life in the orphanage wasn’t the same anymore. I missed her so much that I ran away with my saved money, took a boat to England, travelled to London, where the family of my girlfriend lived, and searched for her nearly one month. With no money and confidence left I accepted a job offer, which brought me to India, leaving everything behind. Arriving in Bombay I worked for an British governor. He was a great man and treated me very good. But after his death I lost my job and had to leave my home. Now I live on the streets in Bombay since 3 years. The only thing that reminds me of my old life is Gulliver, the monkey which gave me the governor before his death.

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