Film, music and books!
Jeg har hørt at der er nogle sange, film og bøger, som man bliver nød til at høre, se og læse, før man tager til Amerika. Så jeg har lavet en liste med de ting, som jeg tænker at man skal se, høre og læse. Jeg har set, hørt og læst en del af disse ting, men så kan de være inspirations kilde til jer, jeg har fundet nogle resumer, for at i kan få en fornemmelse af om det er noget i har lyst til at se, læse eller høre! :)
So i´ve been told that there are some song, film and books you need to listen, see and read before you go to America. So i made up a list of things, that i think you need to se, hear and reed. I´ve reed, seen and heard some of these things, but then they can be an inspirational source to you, i found some different resumes, so you can get a feeling, either it is something you would like to se, hear or read or not! :)
Films:
Forrest Gump is an old american movie from 1994. The protagonist is Tom Hanks. The story is about a low I.Q - Forrest Gump, he meets the love of his life. And through the plot, he meets some of the most significant people in Americas history such as: Elvis, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon.
The Breakfast Club(1985)
They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were simply a Brain, an Athlete, a Basket Case, a Princess, and a Criminal, but to each other, they would always be the Breakfast Club.
Books:
Stanley Yelnats the 4th is accused of stealing a pair of sneakers donated to charity by a famous athlete, Clyde Livingston. He is sentenced to 18 months at Camp Green Lake, a boys' juvenile detention center in Texas. There, each boy must spend his day in the desert, which contained a lake during the 1800s, digging a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter. The Warden and counselors at Camp Green Lake tell them that they are digging to build character and break them of their criminal habits, but Stanley eventually finds that the warden is searching for the treasure hidden by the outlaw Kissing Kate Barlow.
(Btw, i thinks this is a really good book, i know the plot may sound boring, but it isn't)
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel,The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American.
society.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both novels are set in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River. At the end of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father, and his friend Tom Sawyer, a middle-class boy with an imagination too active for his own good, found a robber’s stash of gold. As a result of his adventure, Huck gained quite a bit of money, which the bank held for him in trust. Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson.
Music:
Popular american songs, about america
