Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Research Share

At this point, all of you have hopefully discovered some interesting facts about your author. Let's share what we've found.

Please make a comment that tells us the following:
a. who your author is
b. your book
c. one interesting fact about the author's life
d. one idea you are thinking of exploring.

4 Comments:

Blogger Lizz said...

a Margaret Atwood
b The handmaids tale
c when little she feared edger allen poe, in college she "idolized" him
d

9:34 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

a. Ernest Hemingway
b. The Old Man and the Sea
c. Hemingway served as a ambulance driver in Italy during WWI.
d. I am thinking of exploring his later life of hunting, fishing, and taking trips and seeing the connection these activities had on his dicision to right the book.

12:29 PM  
Blogger Trevor said...

trevor w.

my author is john irving...and the book im reading is "the world according to garp"...one interesting fact about john is that a garbage collector was one of the most influential people for his novels...one idea im thinking of exploring is how the text empowers women

12:31 PM  
Blogger landon32 said...

a. John Irving
b. The World According to Garp
c. His biological father (John Wallace Blunt Jr.) was shot down over Burma in WWII
d. Irvings novel has many feminist figures in it and how they relate to his feelings about the issue

12:33 PM  

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