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We read the book, of course. There
were some weeks to do that (holidays as well). In class we worked on
the first part of the book to get all the details straight and
especially to get in touch with the main persons Jake |spot
on Jake|, who tells the
story as a first-person narrator, and his friend Chuckie |spot
on Chuckie|, whose story is
told from an omniscient narrator's perspective. Interesting point of
view, of course, and more than interesting characters. Details about
Belfast and all the changes since the beginning of the peace process
in 1992 were worked upon, a Newsweek article "Farewell to
Troubles" from December 2004 came in quite handy |online
article December 13th, 2004|
- and talking about persons,
events, relations amd satirical and/or weird actions and
developments helped to get along with the first half of the novel. And
then we dealt closely with a chapter which looks like it doesn't fit
to the novel, as it describes the city of Belfast in a beautiful and
unique way as if the narrator was a night-bird hovering over the
city.
""The city is a
repository of narratives, of stories. Present tense, past tense or
future. The city is a novel" (p. 215)
This was our motto for the next
round in our working process: Everyone picked out a "spot"
she/he was interested in and wrote about it (with Frontpage) to
create a web-page. With the picture of Belfast we connected the
texts and finished our first spots on the novel. 
|Roche|
|Jake&Roche| |Rachel|
|Chuckie| |Max|
|RUC|
|Depression| |Ronnie
Clay| |Rosemary|
|Evans| |Jake's
cat| |Dex| |OTG|
|Ceasefire| |personal
review| To
make understanding of the background ('troubles', ceasefire) easier,
I collected some useful web-pages (mainly from the BBC site) |Background:
Troubles| and connected
them with the web-site about the spots on the novel, shortly
afterwards followed by interesting reviews and literary criticism
which I had googled on the web |McLiam
Wilson & Eureka Street
|. We finished
the second part of the novel by talking about some details and
developments and then tried to get an overview by collecting
information about four aspects: the three main persons Jake, Chuckie,
Aoirghe and the 'troubles' from each chapter.- The results were
summed up on web-pages again and linked to the spots we had done
earlier: that's it, our little hypertext-project about "Eureka
Street" is on the web: |please click|. Who
we are?
English course en32 l, 17 pupils, six months away from leaving
school and their teacher Reinhard Donath. Picture
of the course coming soon Aurich,
Februar 2005
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