BACK TO THE BUSH
Publié le 07/02/2012
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Every day there move northward trains, packed full of lawyers, bankers, and brokers, headed for the bush. They are dressed up to look like pirates. They wear slouch bats, flannel shirts, and leather breeches with belts. They could afford much better clothes than these, but they won't use them. 1 don't know where they get these clothes. 1 think the railroad lends them out. They have guns between their knees and big knives at their hips. They smoke the worst tobacco they can find, and they carry ten gallons of alcohol per man in the baggage car. In the inter vals of telling lies to one another they read the railroad
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1) What kind of men is described in this text? Show their
twofold nature.
2) Pick up the details which make this text humorous and try
to infer from them what the author is aiming at.
3) Which aspect of American history and which of to-day's
social aspirations are brought together? Comment
on the
latter.
2.
Version
Translate the second paragraph from
"In the intervals of telling
lies ...
" down to " ...
suitable varieties of game".
1) What kind of men is described in that text ? Show their
twofold nature.
• The people described in text are hunters.
• The lawers represent law, society and its institutions.
• The bankers and the brokers represent the world of money
and of capitalism.
• they are the Establishment, on the "Squares ".
They ali
belong
to the same social class, and they ali share the same
passion, hunting.
• Their twofold nature:
On one band
Apparent respectability and
morality due to their
-jobs;
-social status (reputable);
-clothes (well-shaved);
-manners (quiet).
On the other band
Deep savage nature
• They are pirates
-in their dress: dubious and
poor garments;
-in their outlook: "guns and
knives
at the hips".
•
They return to savagery:
they are attracted by the jaguar
and become wild animais them
selves, with the ir
"blazing eyes"..
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