Work weeks 42-43 - "About a Boy" - Nick Hornby

- Watch the film "About a Boy" based on the novel

with the same name by Nick Hornby.

The film both begins and ends with the famous phrase

"No Man is an Island" and is a modern illustration of

John Donne's (1572-1631) Renaissance poem

"Meditation XVII".

- Discuss in groups the questions about the film handed out

- Go to the site of Indiana State University to understand the origins of the famous phrase and see an example of how modern texts are interconnected with classical ones. There are explanations to the text and it is also possible to listen to the poem. IMPORTANT!

http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/

Written assignment:

- Write at least 1/2 a page and not more than one page of reflections where you show

how the film illustrates

* the isolation vs. the interconnectedness that John Donne refers to in his poem

* the part from the poem, "...for whom the bell tolls..."

- Send your text to my e-mail-address at school: elisabeth.hultman@nybro.se

- Go to the site of The British Council - Arts - Literature -

Contemporary writers and read about Nick Hornby

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/

- Analyze the lyrics, watch the video and sing the

song by Simon and Garfunkel " I am a Rock"

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=My9I8q-iJCI