Part 1. INVITATION
Dear Oedipus,
Maybe you are asking, why I am writing to you.... I know that you stopped speaking to me two years ago. Now I know that it was my fault. So I’m sorry. Please accept my apology!
Otherwise I would like to invite you to my party. Next Friday is my wedding. I'm going to marry Erika. We are still together and I really love her. The party will be on Thursday in Full-bosomed Aphrodite Strip club (Peterson‘s street) and it will start at 8pm. I have also invited over Jack, Jimmy, Peter, Paul and another friends who you don't know. I hope you will join us! Don't forget to take lots of paper money which you can put under the underclothes of the stripers. If you want to bring somebody with you (only man), do it, he will be welcome!
I trust, you have forgiven me and you will come. Please let me know.
Thanks
Saul
Part 2. REPLY
Saul, how dare you to invite me? to write to me? to speak to me? I will never forgive you! What have you done was absolutely unpardonable! You stole my fianceé. You are going to marry her next week, and you want me to join your party? I don‘t know what to say! Who do you think you are? You have expected me to write to you: Everything is O.K. You didn‘t have to apologize. Thank you for your kind invitation, I‘m looking forward to seeing you, my best friend? NEVER!
Party in strip club! I always knew that you are sex-starved idiot without a taste! The only good thing in your live is Erika, but I trust (and I know) that she will leave you and she will return to me.
Please;, don‘t try to contact me again!
Oedipus
Sunday, January 4, 2009
THE BARBERY WHOSE UNCLE HAD HIS HEAD BITTEN BY A CIRCUS TIGER
Short story by William Saroyan
1)Why the boy had to be told by other people to get a haircut?
Probably because he has bushy curly hair and it is problem to cut it well. The last time he was in the barbershop it was over at the barber college across the tracs. He is a little poor boy so he went there because it was for free. It was at the beginning of the school year so the boy was cut by new barbers student. But this new haircut was that bad, he feared to go in this barbery again. After one month his hair grew like never before. “His head was too big for the world.“
2) What hints does the beginning of the story give about Aram‘s talents as a barber?
He didn’t has clients and his shop was empty all the time, so evidently he wasn’t known as a talented barber.
3)How did the barber receive his young customer?
He received him very heartily and kindly, offered him a coffee, told him to sit down and started to narrate a story about his uncle.
4)What did the boy think of the barber, and why?
He thought that the barber was wise, kind, and experienced. He found him remarkable and interesting.
5)Why did uncle Misak accept the job with the circus?
Because when he was a young and strong he didn’t economize and when he became older and he couldn’t earn money the same way he was poor. So he was wandering from Constantinopol to Vienna, to Berlin, to New York and around the whole world but all the time he nearly starved to death, he was lost, he was lonely and nobody wanted to help him. But when he went to China, he met an Arab from French circus. This man started to talk to him. Musak loved animals - and also he was starving - that is why he started to work there. I think that he was also influenced by his loneliness.
6)Why did the boy look forward to his next haircut?
The boy looked forward to the next haircut because he wanted to hear the story of barber’s uncle again, because he treated this story actual for every body.
7) Why did I like the book?
I liked the story very well, it was interesting. The story was an easy reading. What I found interesting about the story of Musak is narrating by a third person (by the boy). I also liked that even the story was about a sad and poor uncle, who died so distressfully, the reading was humorous.
1)Why the boy had to be told by other people to get a haircut?
Probably because he has bushy curly hair and it is problem to cut it well. The last time he was in the barbershop it was over at the barber college across the tracs. He is a little poor boy so he went there because it was for free. It was at the beginning of the school year so the boy was cut by new barbers student. But this new haircut was that bad, he feared to go in this barbery again. After one month his hair grew like never before. “His head was too big for the world.“
2) What hints does the beginning of the story give about Aram‘s talents as a barber?
He didn’t has clients and his shop was empty all the time, so evidently he wasn’t known as a talented barber.
3)How did the barber receive his young customer?
He received him very heartily and kindly, offered him a coffee, told him to sit down and started to narrate a story about his uncle.
4)What did the boy think of the barber, and why?
He thought that the barber was wise, kind, and experienced. He found him remarkable and interesting.
5)Why did uncle Misak accept the job with the circus?
Because when he was a young and strong he didn’t economize and when he became older and he couldn’t earn money the same way he was poor. So he was wandering from Constantinopol to Vienna, to Berlin, to New York and around the whole world but all the time he nearly starved to death, he was lost, he was lonely and nobody wanted to help him. But when he went to China, he met an Arab from French circus. This man started to talk to him. Musak loved animals - and also he was starving - that is why he started to work there. I think that he was also influenced by his loneliness.
6)Why did the boy look forward to his next haircut?
The boy looked forward to the next haircut because he wanted to hear the story of barber’s uncle again, because he treated this story actual for every body.
7) Why did I like the book?
I liked the story very well, it was interesting. The story was an easy reading. What I found interesting about the story of Musak is narrating by a third person (by the boy). I also liked that even the story was about a sad and poor uncle, who died so distressfully, the reading was humorous.
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