May 27, 2009

Recommendations for Homereading-activities: Night

Here you will find some interesting links that will help you to have a better understanding of Elie Wiesel's feelings towards The Holocaust and the experiences he described in his novel.
Glossary
Inside Auschwitz
A trip to a concentration camp
Oprah talks to Elie Wiesel
An inteview published in O Magazine, November 2000.

13 Phrases for Living






Born on a Blue Day

Watch Daniel Tammet's interview at Late Show with David Letterman

A Genius Says Goodbye: Gabriel García Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Twentieth Century Literature

The literature of the twentieth century is a literature of exploration, as it strives to describe and communicate the experiences of a fast-paced, ever-changing world of technological advances, continual warfare, and changing political and geographical borders. Yet, it is in part because of war, technology and global realignment that twentieth-century literature now includes the voices of writers from emerging cultures and ethnic groups that had previously been silent or been ignored.