LITERATURE II- A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS

To revise A Small Family Business, do the following: each group should investigate and get ready to discuss the following issues and find all the quotes in the text that exemplify the issues in question. We´ll discuss this in class.

Business

Euphemisms

Family

Humour

Colloquialisms

Violence

Cultural icons

Victim/victimizer

Crime? Is a crime always a crime?

Being clever

Party

hand

“Know thyself”


Having done the previous exercise will enable you to discuss the themes of the play very well:
Each group should sort out the following and as a group be able to discuss the following themes at length.
Money/Wealth
Business
Family
Drugs/Addictions
Power
Lies/ hiding/cheating/deceit
Capital sins
Love
Consumerism
Bribing/fraud/swindle/shoplifting/blackmail
Mafia


For Tuesday 30th
HW: Take one character, study him/her closely and prepare an oral presentation defending his/her point of view of the events in the play(10')