Harold Fry

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Welcome to class
Start with your reading period.

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Today's lesson
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

- Learn more about the author: Rachel Joyce;
- Getting to know the characters of the book.

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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.


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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.

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Slide 5 - Video

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?

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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?

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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.

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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)

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