viernes, 28 de septiembre de 2012

Reading Assignment: Auggie Wren's Christmas Story

The text of the story is here: http://www.xtec.cat/~dsanz4/materiales/auggie_wren.pdf, and you can hear Paul Auster reading it aloud here: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4244994&m=4244995

Questions:

- What are Christmas stories like?
- What is special about Auggie Wren's Christmas story?
- What do you think about Auggie's photo project? Can time be captured?
- Do you think Auggie's behaviour with the old lady is right?
- Should stories always be true? What's the relationship between art and reality?

DEADLINE: Oct 8