James Sveck is a seventeen-year old boy, with a strange family: His mother, Marjorie Dunfour, is a gallery owner who left her third husband during their honeymoon; his dad, Paul Sveck, a business man who's obbsessed by cosmetic surgery to appeal to younger women and his sister, Gillian Sveck who has a relation ship with a fifty-year old polish professor.James loves to read and spend the time with his grandmother Nanette, he's called a misfit from his family because he doesn't want to go to university, so his parents send him to a therapist. Will his pain really be useful to him one day?
<< I wish the whole day was like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward and not ready to engage with the World.>>
<< I this what love does? It turns you into a marionette? It's like trying to have a conversation with a parrot or someone who's been lobotomized.>>
Glossary:
Humoring my parents: assecondando i miei genitori
Marvelous: meravogliosa
Inward: inoltrare
Foul: [sinonimo di] disgustoso
Ditch on your honey moon: mollato alla vostra luna di miele
Subtle: impercettibile
Co-workers: colleghi
Bookbinding: rilegatura dei libri
Memoir: memorie
Shrink: strizzacervelli
Compulsive gambler: giocatore compulsivo
Dismissive: sbrigativo
Life coach: maestro di vita
Whatsoever: qualunque cosa
<< I feel like an empty plastic bottle in the middle of the ocean with no cap, so the water could easily come in. Soon I'll be full and then...I'll be sinking. >>
Steak rare: bistecca al sangue
Manly: virile
Sake of vanity: amore della vanità
Farce: palcoscenico
Growl: ringhiare
Joint property: proprietà comune
The character I choose was...
It was really hard to choose one character, they all have interesting psychological traits, but I choose Marjorie. At first I thought she was just a materialist woman, who doesn't care about her family, especially about her son, but then I saw her caring side and it was suriprising; she has become more "human" towards James, trying to open her heart more and trying to make her son understand that it is not the World that is angry with him, but he with the World.
<< My dearest James, be patient and though. Someday this pain will be useful to you. >>
Someday this pain will be useful to you.
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Someday this pain will be useful to you.
Plot:
James Sveck is a seventeen-year old boy, with a strange family: His mother, Marjorie Dunfour, is a gallery owner who left her third husband during their honeymoon; his dad, Paul Sveck, a business man who's obbsessed by cosmetic surgery to appeal to younger women and his sister, Gillian Sveck who has a relation ship with a fifty-year old polish professor.James loves to read and spend the time with his grandmother Nanette, he's called a misfit from his family because he doesn't want to go to university, so his parents send him to a therapist. Will his pain really be useful to him one day?
<< I wish the whole day was like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward and not ready to engage with the World.>>
<< I this what love does? It turns you into a marionette? It's like trying to have a conversation with a parrot or someone who's been lobotomized.>>
Glossary:
<< I feel like an empty plastic bottle in the middle of the ocean with no cap, so the water could easily come in. Soon I'll be full and then...I'll be sinking. >>
The character I choose was...
It was really hard to choose one character, they all have interesting psychological traits, but I choose Marjorie. At first I thought she was just a materialist woman, who doesn't care about her family, especially about her son, but then I saw her caring side and it was suriprising; she has become more "human" towards James, trying to open her heart more and trying to make her son understand that it is not the World that is angry with him, but he with the World.
<< My dearest James, be patient and though. Someday this pain will be useful to you. >>