Культурология. Горелова А.В - 60 стр.

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Wednesday she learns that one of the richest trustees sends her to college to be
educated to become a writer. She expected to write monthly letters to the
trustee’s secretary telling of her progress in studies and the details of her daily
life. She is warned not to expect any letters in return. Jerusha writes much more
often, her letters show a great amount of originality and how home sick she
feels, how much she longs to have a family.
For the most part of the novel the story is set in college, which Jerusha
finds to be a most bewildering place. She enjoys learning and finds out many
interesting things: she realizes the depth of her own ignorance and works hard to
catch up with the rest of the girls. She learns that she is companionable and
pretty, and that people care for her. She falls in love with Mr. Pendleton, who
turns out to be Daddy-Long-Legs, the trustee who sent her to college,
encouraged her visits to New York and Lock Willow and made her life so happy
and complete in comparison with her miserable existence in the orphan asylum.
The author does not bring many characters into the book but they are
represented very convincingly and are very true-to-life. Judy is an admirable
girl, a sunny soul by nature, an industrious student and a gifted writer. She is a
sociable person, a true friend and a charming girl, capable of strong feelings,
emotions and making a man happy.
The author’s style is clear, emotional and vivid. It’s an entertaining book,
having great merits. The author is successful at portraying human relations. The
book contains funny, humorous episodes, which make the action quick moving
and the book interesting to read.
5.11. Gerald Malcolm Durrell
Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, the son of a civil engineer.
Brought up in France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece and Britain, he was educated
privately and developed a strong interest in natural history, especially animals.
In 1945 he became a student keeper at Whipsnade Zoo, and from 1947
traveled widely (Cameroon, Guiana, Argentina, Cyprus, etc.) on exhibitions to
collect animals for zoos.
In 1950 he began writing for journals and radio, mostly about his travels
and animal life, and in 1951 completed his first book, The Overloaded Ark. A
succession of light-hearted but informative books followed, developing themes
of travel, natural history and conservation, and including Three Singles to
Adventure and Bafut Beagles (1953), The Drunken Forest (1955), My Family
and Other Animals and The New Noah (1956). In 1958 Durrell settled in Jersey,
Channel Islands, founding a zoo and later (1964) the Jersey Wild-life
Preservation Trust, which breeds rare and threatened species.
Travels and writing continued, later books including Encounters with
Animals (1959), A Zoo in my Luggage (1960), Island Zoo (1961), The
Whispering Land (1962), How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist (1984).
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