Harold Fry

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome to class

Start with your reading period.

Today's lesson

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

- Learn more about the author: Rachel Joyce;

- Getting to know the characters of the book.

Who is Rachel Joyce (1962)?

• British author who has also written plays for BBC Radio 4.
  
• In 2012, she was awarded the "New Writer of the Year" award.
  
• She had an earlier career as an actress, a.o. Shakespeare.
  
• She is married to actor Paul Venables, and lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and four children.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

• It is her debut novel and was published in 2012.
• It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
• In 2014 there was a sequel: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.

Discuss in your groups

• What does she say about the origin of the book?
  
• What does she say about the setting (time and place)?
  
• What does she say about the characters?
  
• What does she say about her own journey?
  
• What does she hope the reader will get out of the book?

Discuss in your groups.

• Who is Harold Fry?
  
• What can you say about his marriage to Maureen?
  
• Who is David?
  
• Who is Queenie?
  
• Why does he set out on his pilgrimage?
  
• What is a pilgrimage?

Timeline coming weeks

Finish Harold Fry in two weeks.

We will discuss Educated from week 32 (starting 31 May).

There will be a review of the vocabulary every week.

A Writer Has A Way With Words: 

Putting extra meaning in a sentence. 

- “If we don’t go mad once in a while there’s no hope.” (waitress, p. 44)

- There was even some beauty in it, if only because Harold was doing something he believed in for once, and that against all odds. (Maureen, p. 133)

- He considered his own life and how ordinary it might look from the outside, when really it held such darkness and trouble. (Harold, p. 164)