Skip to main content

Thinking activity on sense of an ending

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes




About Writer: Julian Barnes
   
Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005).

The novel is divided into two parts

The first part biggins in the 1960s. It begins with four intellectually arrogant school friends. we are told about two friends out of four. The first one is Tony the narrator and the second one is a Adrain the most preciously intelligent of the four. When they were in the last year of the school, a boy who killed himself after getting a girl pregnant. The four friends discuss the death philosophically, they wanted to know what exactly happened. Then Adrain joins Cambridge University. Whereas Tony takes admission in Bristol university. Tony had a girlfriend called Veronica. He spends an awkward weekend at Veronica's house. Then their relationship fails in some acrimony.


• Damage’ recurs as a motif in the novel. Whom do you think is ‘damaged’ and who is the ‘damager’?

a. Damage : the letter written by Tony to Adrain and Veronica. b.It damages Veronica’s relation with   Adrain. c. Perhaps leads Adrain to meet Sarah Ford > their affair. d.  Sarah’s pregnancy > which may have lead to Adrain Finn’s suicide!. e The child, names Adrain is born with metal retardness > damage caused by suicide of Adrain to Sarah while she is pregnant > or her middle-aged pregnancy. f. The letter damages several lives > Veronica, Adrain, Sarah and young Adrain

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Butterfly poem by Arun Kolatker

Here I discuss about  a poem is a literary form composed in verse. It normally gives account of personal feelings, emotions and imagination. The poem The Butterfly There is no story behind it. It is split like a second. It hinges around itself. It has no future. It is pinned down to no past. It’s a pun on the present. It’s a little yellow butterfly. It has taken these wretched hills under its wings. Just a pinch of yellow, it opens before it closes and closes before it o where is it. When I was in B.A I studied various poems. For example The Butterfly which was written by  Arun Kolatkar, an Indian poet wrote about the place- Jejuri, a temple town. Jejuri is a poor place and the hills in Jejuri show the barrenness of the place. His style is simple (English) in contrast with Mahapatra where he uses English and his ideas very effectively. Whatever he sees in Jejury they have a story of their own. The poet says there is no story behind the butterfly, the very being...
Post a Comment
Read more

Themes of The Old man and the Sea

Name: -  Makwana Monika Paper no. 10 - The American Literature. Topic : - Themes of the old man and the sea Roll no :-21 Enrollment no: -   206910842020190027 Email ID: - makwanamonika76@gmail.com Submitted to: - S. B. Gardi department of English Introduction 'The Old Man and the Sea' is a novel, written by the famous American author Ernest Hemingway. He was an author and journalist. Here we talk about the themes of this novel. First we discuss about the novel the old man and the sea. It is a short heroic novel by Ernest Hemingway. It was awarded in 1953 by Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This novel old man and the sea was his last major work of fiction. This story is on battle between an old experienced fishermen and a large marlin. The story of these novels is centre on an aging fisherman and who engages in epic battle to catch a giant Marlin. This novel is written in 1951 in Cuba . And it published in 1952. In is one of the famous works of E...
Post a Comment
Read more

Assignment of write a critical Appreciation on Robinson Crusoe

Name: Makwana Monika Roll no: 28 Paper-2: The Neo- classical Literature Topic: Write a critical appreciation of Robinson Crusoe Enrollment no: 2069108420290027 Email I’D: makwanamonika76@gmail.comm Submitted to: smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English Introduction Robinson Crusoe is a Novel, written by Daniel Defoe. The novel was published in 1719 . Daniel Defoe wrote the story of “Robinson Crusoe” at the age of fifty nine. And it was immediate success of his. The story of Robinson Crusoe that has delighted the young old hundred years was actually based on an experience of a seaman in his life. Defoe’s hands and the story itself is turned into a microcosm of the eighteenth century’s triumph over nature. Crusoe stay on island, during the thirty year, Crusoe established himself completely and very comfortably. Converts his native servant Friday to Christianity, overcomes the savage and is hailed as their master. Allowing Crusoe to rescue ammunition by the happy device and mater...
2 comments
Read more