Read chapters from 8 to 9 and answer the following questions

1. What was Emma Goldman talking about at her lecture? What was the essence of her words?
2. What happened in the meeting hall that Tateh disappeared with the Little Girl? What account for Goldman’s words to Evelyn “you're nothing more than a clever prostitute”?
3. Describe the episode with Evelyn’s liberation under Goldman’s emphatic hands.
4. What facts characterizing the MYB do we get from the 9-th chapter?
5. What other facts of the family do we get?
6. Describe the episode with Mother’s unexpected discovery in the garden. How did she react?

Look up the dictionary for the following words and statements:

Shirtwaist (n)

Foment (v)

Confess (v)

Dissection (n)

Horn­rimmed glasses (n)

Catcall (n)

Repudi­ate (v)

Mock­ery (n)

Plun­der

Brothel (n)

Decorum (n)

Womb (n)

Reverence (n)

Toady (v)

Phalanx (n)

Pandemonium (n)

Aisle (n)

Des­ecrate (v)

Duck trousers (n)

Brownstone (n)

Recess (n)

Lilac (n)

Dart (v)

Ajar (adj.)

Consolation (n)

Servitude (n)

Stem (v)

Abhor (v)

Urchin (n)

Rocking chair (n)

Novice (n)

Beleaguer (v)

Embroidered underwear (n)

Fulminate of mercury

Dungeon (n)

Parchment (n)

Stoop (n)

Leech (n)

Sybarite (n)

Obedient (adj.)

Waist (n)

Licentious (adj.)

Wanton (n)

Astringent (n)

Mon (n)

Pelvis (n)

Paroxysm (n)

Mortification (n)

Filamented (adj.)

Spurt (n)

Jism (n)

Ticker tape (n)

Brood about (v)

Oar (n)

Indolence (n)

Sire (v)

Homestead (n)

Gravid (adj.)

Hayloft (n)

Large-boned (adj.)

Slant (v)

Bid on (v)

Succeed (v)

Solace (n)

Salvia (n)

Marigold (n)

Translucent (adj.)

Cross oneself (v)

Opulent (adj.)

Infant (n)

Cord (n)

Swaddle (v)

Barely (adv.)

Receiver (n)

Guileless (adj.)

To stand charges (v)

Endorse (v)

Contamination (n)

Cultural notes for chapters 8 -9

Emma Goldman – see the reference part.

Ibsen - Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in Europe. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality.

Pierpont Morgan - John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company he merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the United States Steel Corporation in 1901. He bequeathed much of his large art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and to the Wadsworth Atheneum of Hartford, Connecticut. He died in Rome, Italy, in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr.

John d. Rockefeller - John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he officially retired in 1897.

Alexander Berkman - (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was an anarchist known for his political activism and writing. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century.

Mr. Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel. With the fortune he made from business, he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Pinkertons - The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, was a private U.S. security guard and detective agency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. Pinkerton had become famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War. Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work. At its height, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than there were members of the standing army of the United States of America, causing the state of Ohio to outlaw the agency due to fears it could be hired out as a private army or militia.

State militia - The term militia is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service.

Attentat - assassination attempt (from German)

John Brown - (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.

Blue coats – police.

Read chapters from 10 to 13 and answer the following questions:

1 How does the author describe the living conditions in Greenland? Refer to the attitude of the expedition members to the Eskimos, describe their ways. Comment on the phrase “Peary defined the virtues of Esquimos as loyalty and obedience, roughly the same virtues one sought in the dogs”.

2 Refer to the new president of the US, define how his personality affected the American society.

3 Describe further events of Evelyn’s life and her divorce case.

4 Where did Tateh and his little girl appear in the final run after their wanderings? Describe their way.

5 Explain the roots of Harry Houdini’s depression? Why was he dissatisfied with his career? What way out did he finally find?

Look up the dictionary for the following words and statements:

Berth (n)

Walnut (n)

Idleness (n)

Hunting sorties (n)

Musk ox (n)

Harness (n), (v)

Snow blindness (n)

Esquimo (n)

Guerrilla (n)

Prank (n)

Hallucinate (v)

Fastidiousness (n)

Grooming (n)

Aft (adj., adv.)

Misshapen (adj.)

Fulmar (n)

Auk (n)

Chirp (v)

Nudge (v, n)

Diffidence (n)

Formidable (adj.)

Resent (v)

Trailbreaker (n)

Backbreaking labor (n)

Hack away (v)

Pickax (n)

Haul (v)

Precipitous descents

Sled (n)

Wait out (v)

Inex­plicable (adj.)

Unassimilable (adj.)

Caribou (n)

Brittle (adj.)

Arduous effort (n)

Pemmican (n)

Lag (n), (v)

Extremities (n)

Thaw out (v)

Fraternity (n)

Halt (n)

Sextant (n)

Floe (n)

Due north, due south

Stubby (adj.)

Paleocrystic (adj.)

Offal (n)

Broiled fish (n)

Purgative (n)

Induce­ment (n)

Sinuously (adv.)

Illustrateds (n)

Calves (n)

Resolute (adj.)

Impeccable (adj.)

Dabble (v)

Magnification (n)

Guffaw (v)

Lewd (adj.)

Flawlessly (adv.)

Bailiff (n)

Alienist (n)

Plea (n)

Contrition (n)

Vellum (n)

Stationery (n)

Remand (v)

Barbarity (n)

Mutilate (v)

Dole out (v)

Whim (n)

Reminiscent of (adj.)

Musty (adj.)

Pantograph (n)

Sultry (adj.)

Duck (n)

Frock (n)

Terminus (n)

Abustle (adv.)

Yank (v)

Frayed (adj.)

Lope (v)

Tumbrils (n)

Visionary (n)

Sandhog (n)

Flinty (adj.)

Buttress (n)

Babushka (n)

Escapologist (n)

Stolid (adj.)

Oaf (n)

Lithe (adj.)

Gangplank (n)

Varnish (n), (v)

Throttle (v)

Airborne (adj., adv.)

Casern (n)

Aloft (adj., adv.)

Whir (v)

Heir (n)

Cultural notes for chapters 10 -13:

Player piano - is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that plays on the piano action pre-programmed music via perforated paper rolls.

Igloo shelter - An igloo is a dome-shaped Eskimo shelter, usually made from blocks of snow.

Mathew Henson - Matthew Alexander Henson (August 6, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary during various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition which claimed to be the first to reach the Geographic North Pole.

William Howard Taft - (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.

Three hundred and thirty-two pounds – about 150.592667 kilograms.

Voisin biplane - The Voisin Biplane was a French design which saw very limited use in the U.S. The great magician Harry Houdini was a Voisin aviator, although it appears he never flew in the U.S. However, he did make what is recognized as the first aeroplane flight in Australia.

Franz Ferdinand (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia.

The Countess Sophie - Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína, German: Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin); 1 March 1868 - 28 June 1914) was the morganatic wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Their assassination sparked World War I.

The Wrights - The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

Read chapters from 14 to 17 and answer the following questions:

1. Describe the circumstances of Father’s return? What did he notice to have changed dramatically over the year of his wanderings?

2. What was the root of Mother Younger Brother deepest depression, how did he attempt to handle his grief?

3. What new peculiarities of the Little Boy’s character do we get from the fifteenth chapter? How did his family perceive his oddities? Who was the member of the family having closest relationship with the boy and why? What notions was he constantly concerned with? Quote the text to prove it.

4. Where did winter catch Tateh and his girl? What was Tateh afraid of both in terms of his daughter growing up and protecting her life?

5. Characterize the attempts of the strikers to get their way and the response of the authorities to that. Explain the essence of the so called “the children's crusade” invented by the strikers?

6. How come Tateh began to conceive of his life as separate from the fate of the working class?

Look up the dictionary for the following words and statements:

Withdrawn (adj.)

Derelict (adj.)

Clavicle (n)

Tusk (n)

Alerted (adj.)

Vigorously (adv.)

Devious (adj.)

Loom (n)

Con­valescent (adj.)

Beef tea (n)

Crisply (adv.)

Firecracker (n)

Combustion (n)

After-concussion (n)

Whitecap (n)

Discard (v)

Sagging socks (n)

Declamation (n)

Volatile (adj.)

Forfeit (v)

Vanity (n)

Gaunt (adj.)

Lassitude (n)

Recompose (v)

To divert somebody from something (v)

Fall victim (v)

Dismal (adj.)

Tenement (n)

Overjoyed (adj.)

Trudge (v)

Complicity (n)

Wobbly (adj., n)

Stetson (n)

Inflamed (adj.)

Threadbare (adj.)

stoke the fire (v)

Serene (adj.)

Stratagem (n)

Storefront (n)

Elicit from (v)

Commotion (n)

Turmoil (n)

Pagoda (n)

Out of harm's way

For one’s own good

Chord (n)

Guardrail (n)

Pry (v)

Bestir oneself (v)

Editorial (n)

Satchel (n)

Hair clasp (n)

Emporium (n)

Man­nequin (n)

Egret feather (n)

Gimcrack (adj.)

Novelty (n)

Practical joke (n)

Paperweight (n)

Amiable (adj.)

Cultural notes for chapters 14 -17:

Victrola - The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.

The Motor Boys books - The Motor Boys were the heroes of a popular series of adventure books for boys at the turn of the 20th century issued by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym of Clarence Young. This series was issued with dustjackets and glossy frontispiece. Howard Garis wrote many, if not all, of these stories.

Ovid - Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17 or 18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who wrote about love, seduction, and mythological transformation.

IWW - The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.

The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy are implemented.

Shtetl - A shtetl (Yiddish: diminutive form of Yiddish shtot "town", pronounced very similarly to the South German diminutive "Städtle", "little town";) was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe

The Internationale - The Internationale (L'Internationale in French) is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.

The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism. Its original French refrain is C'est la lutte finale / Groupons-nous et demain / L'Internationale / Sera le genre humain. (Freely translated: "This is the final struggle / Let us group together and tomorrow / The Internationale / Will be the human race.") The Internationale has been translated into many of the world's languages. It is sung traditionally with the hand raised in a clenched fist salute. The Internationale is sung not only by socialists but also (in many countries) by communists or social democrats, as well as anarchists.

India ink - (or Indian ink in British English), or less commonly called Chinese ink since it may have been first developed in either India or China, is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing, and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comics and comic strips. Indian ink tends to clog fountain pens if not used for long time; it then becomes necessary to use water to unclog it.

REO - The REO Speed Wagon was a motor truck manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It was an ancestor of the pickup truck. REO are the initials of the company's founder, Ransom E. Olds, also the founder of the Oldsmobile (company later sold to General Motors and the brand retired in 2004).

Read chapters from 18 to 20 and answer the following questions:

1. What characteristic of Henry Ford do we get from the 18-th chapter? What was the essence of Henry Ford’s invention that shook America in the beginning of the 20-th century and why?

2. Speak about the ear of industrialization and technological revolution. What was the final proposition of the theory of industrial manufacture as Ford thought it?

3. Speak about Morgan and his constant search for equals, comment of the phrase “the cold and barren reaches of unlimited success”. But was he so inaccessibly great and was different from any other mortal person? Morgan had one flaw (say what it was), but was it a real curse of his or a blessing – a touch of God?

4. Pierpont Morgan venerated an ancient philosophy still present in the minds of some thinkers of the world, that the universe is changeless and that death is followed by the resumption of life. What is the essence of this philosophical concept? Trace it’s development in Morgan’s speech to Rosicrucian philosophy, and say what role did Morgan provide for himself and for Ford in this concept?

Look up the dictionary for the following words and statements:

Hither and yon (phr.)

Quick-witted (adj.)

Vouchsafe (v)

Replicate (v)

Interchangeable (adj.)

Chipmunk (n)

Raccoon (n)

Junco (n)

Wren (n)

Chickadee (n)

Profusely (adv)

Sparse (adj)

Obeisance (n)

Ascot (n)

Tinkering (ger)

A lust for order (phr)

Imperial (adj)

Single-handedly (adv)

Gold bullion (n)

Defer to (in) (v)

Preeminent (adj)

Acquisition (n)

Constipated (adj)

Inanities (n)

Hag (n)

Doughty (adj)

Indis­putable truth (n)

Summon (v)

Fondle (v)

Mortar (n)

Endive (n)

Rhubarb pie (n)

Self-effacement (n)

Morning coat (n)

Gilded (adj)

Damask (n)

Halo (n)

Plush (n)

Qualms (n)

Genus (n)

Taxonomist (n)

Ponder (v)

Insolent (adj)

Firmament (n)

Beckon (v)

Vehement (adj)

Parchment (n)

Folio (n)

Promulgate (v)

Index finger (n)

Cuneiform (adj)

Conspiracy (n)

Transcendental (adj)

Effigy (n)

Beyond value

Visage (n)

Composure (n)

Crypt (n)

Decipher (v)

Incarnate (v)

Reincarnation (n)

Latiny (n, adj)

Concede (v)

Lineage (n)

Endow (v)

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