THE ROAD HOMEBY

ROSE TREMAINWhere was she born?

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Answer - She was born in London in 1943. - - From 1961-1962 she studied at the Sorbonne, Paris- - She gradutated from the University of East Anglia in- 1965.- - She lives in Norfolk.

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Where does LEV, the main character in the novel, come from?EAST/WEST/NORTH/SOUTH

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Answer Lev comes from a village called Auror which

is in an unspecified Eastern European country.

He had worked in a sawmill and became unemployed when the factory closed because there were no more trees left, as he says. He is also a widower and had to

leave his little daughter with his mother.Question

QUESTION We, the reader, are accomanying him on his

interminable trip on a bus to England where he arrives grey with exhaution and almost with no money. He sleeps outside and gets his first job from a moslem who is also struggling to survive.

How would you define such a person?

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A poor immigrantNoun: immigrationVerb: to immigrate

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Lydia, the lady he met on the bus, saves him from the street

by finding him what?

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Answer a job in a very elegant restaurant where he

washes the dishes and is slowly working his way up.

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Question When Lev is at the house of Lydia‘s friend in

Mushwell Hill he realizes the big social gap but handles it with humour when sitting ...... ............ he relieves himself as quietly as he could.

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AnswerOn the toilet or lavatory and looAndy, the playwright later says that the English

shouldstart to have the courage to look at the filth in

thatroom.

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QuestionLydia invites Lev to do something very special. What could it be?

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She invites him to a concert with the Maestro Greszler, the great conductor for whom Lydia is working now.

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Question The audience is very quietly waiting for the

concert to begin when something terrible happens to Lev. What could it be?

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Answer His new cell phone starts to ring and he can‘t

find it in his clothes and as the ringing becomes louder and louder the people and conductor are getting very angry.

Lev is desperate and is leaving as fast as possible.

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QuestionThrough Lev‘s ............., we see London as the

incomersees it and it is not at all an attractive and

encouragingsight.Which word fits into the gap?

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AnswerEYES is the answer.

Other words in connection are:Eyesight : Somebody has a good eyesight.This means that he sees well.To eye sb. up = to look at a person and try to

know more about her or him.

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QuestionLev lives now in Christy‘s flat. His wife has left

him andhe suffers because he is not supposed to have

contact with his daughter because he may have hit her

when hewas drunk.Christ is Irish.Which country is he from? Answer

AnswerChristy is from Ireland.Lev and Christy get on well together; they are

bothlonly, like to drink and to smoke cigarettes.Christy says „Life‘s a feckin‘ football match to

the Brit now. They didn‘t used to be like this, but now

they are.If you can‘t get your ball in the back of the net,

you‘reno one.“

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Question Do Christy and Lev feel at home in London

and its society?

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AnswerNO, NOT AT ALL! They feel that they do not belong to this society.

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What can Lev now send home?

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AnswerSome money!These are coins

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QuestionSophie,colleague from work, offers to help Lev

to cleanup the..................and he fallsin love with her.

Later on when he is with herand her friends in a bar where they all tell their

storiesLev feels very uncomfortable.Answer

AnswerKitchenRestaurant

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QUESTION:Lev understands that his......... misses him very much and that by running away from his sorrow he made suffer her very much.

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It‘s his little daughter who suffers very much

because she misses her father and he misses her,

too. Maya also informs her father that she can‘t

go iceskating anymore because Rudi‘s Tchevi is

kaputt.

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QuestionBecause Lev‘s love affair with Sophie

comes to an end, the former loses his job at GK Ashe‘s and has to become an ............picker for the also lonely Suffolk farmer Midge.

Fill the right vegetable into the gap.

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ANSWERasparagus

Question Lydia gives Lev a very important book by

William Shakespeare for Christmas and before she leaves to more or less live with the famous musician she tells Lev to really read it because he will also find out much about himself. Why

What‘s the name of the play/tragedy?

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The play is called HAMLET

It seems that the ghost from Auror has followed him to London.

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QUESTIONLev has a really crazy plan how to help Maya,

Ina Rudi and Lora who are in a desperate situation because a .......... is supposed to be built and the people from Auror will have to move to an apartment in Baryn

and there are big problems with Rudi‘s car and Rudi himself.

What do you think is Lev going to do and WHY?

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ANSWERThey are going to build a dam and Auror will

be drowned.Please read the book and you will know the

rest.Thanks