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Catalan Father: GUIMERA, ge-ma-ra', Angel (1849-1924), Spanish dramatist and poet of the Catalan language. He was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, on May 6, 1849, of a Catalan father, who returned to Catalonia with his family when Angel was seven. Angel was educated in Barcelona, worked briefly in the family wine business in the village of El Vendrell, and from 1872 lived in Barcelona. He died in Barcelona on July 18, 1924.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father.
Carol did not say anything else. She rang her doorbell, took the five-year-old's hand and, when her mother pushed the buzzer, went inside. The other little girl rode away on her bicycle.
Read the following incident, trying to understand what the child's behavior meant to him:
Father and nine-year-old David were out in the backyard; father was working on the rosebushes.
David, close by, picked up some of his father's tools. |
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