Word Information

▲ hypo- : under

hypothesis

▲ -ship :

● musicianship: a person's skill in playing a musical instrument or singing

● scholarship

* tuition e.g. I got tuition waiver/ free.

* waiver: an agreement that you do not have to pay or obey something

 

● championship: a high-level competition to decide who is the best, especially in a sport

 

● dealership: a company that has permission to sell a particular product

 

● internship: a period of training spent in a hospital by a young doctor in order to finish their medical qualification

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Catch Me If You Can

⇒  It may be the idea of the movie, DEATH OF A SALESMAN. 

"Two Little Mice" speech by Christopher Walken

▲ Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller.

The third husband of Marilyn Monroe

▲ The play ends in a requiem.

▲ Comparing with Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot.

In Waiting for Godot the major themes being explored are death and time. Death is a way of escape. If you die you escape of life and all the suffering and negatives of life, clearly highlighted in the Waiting for Godot script.

Hat Swapping Scene

▲ Seeds represent for Willy the opportunity to prove the worth of his labor, both as a salesman and a father.

* It has something to do with...

●  Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

⇒ 流淚撒種的、必歡呼收割。

●  A Psalm of Life(click) - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Let us, then, be up and doing,

   With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

   Learn to labor and to wait.”

●  “Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”

-quote from Death of the Salesman

   

▲ “He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy.” -quote from Death of the Salesman

⇒ Charley’s speech in the requiem about the nature of the salesman’s dreams eulogizes Willy as a victim of his difficult profession.

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Films shared in class

Divergent (click)

⇒  based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth

The Hunger Games (click)

The bird in the logo is a “mockingjay” – a hybrid between jabberjays and mockingbirds – and are a symbol of rebellion in the series.

The Giver (click)

It is set in a society which at first appears to be a utopian society but is later revealed to be a dystopian one as the story progresses.