Bonsoir,
j´ai un devoir d´anglais et malheuresement, fil faut le rendre demain. Mais vu qie j´étais absent, le prof me laissera un peu plus de temps.
C´est un devoir type bac.
Je place le devoir ici :
"England is not exactly like I pictured it´
But they dont have cars like we do, do they?" said my mother, her voice echoing on the phone. I said, "What are you talking about, Mom, of course the British have cars. Havent you heard of Rolls Royce?"
"And what about the toilets?" she wanted to know. "Mrs Lovell at the church said they´ve .~ still got out-houses, even in the city."
"Mom, Mrs Lovell at the church was in England during the war, for Pete´s sake. She spent most of her time in a tube station."
"What about food?" asked my mother, "Should I bring some with me? Mrs Lovell says it´s hard to get fresh fruit."
4~. "Mom, you´re coming to London, not trekking through Katmandu."
Americans tome to Britain because it is still, for many of us, the motherland. Britain gave us our language; many of our ideas of literature and culture; our founding fathers and our first presidents; and mercifully few of our ideas on cooking. Americans corne to Britain because their grandparents came from Glasgow, or their great-grandparents were starved out of Ireland, or
M their mother´s mother was bora in Chiswick. They corne here because they recognise place narres and they tan read the menus. Because everything is both foreign and familiar.
Americans love England because it is so quaint and charming; so old. Coming from a country where anything older than 100 years is ancient, they can´t get over the fact that Britain´s past is so visible, so close at hand. You walk through London, for instance, and every alley holds
20 secrets. Every church and every row of shops and houses tells a story. It is not like that in America. America does not build on, it builds over. There are no medieval ruins in New Jersey. There are no 700-year-old castles in Nebraska.
Most of the Americans I know who live permanently in London left home for a single, clear, uncluttered reason: they wanted to get away from Florida or Pennsylvania or Texas or Minnesota.
2 5 Most of them have chosen to stay for an equally clear and simple reason: it isn´t America.
"I still think you should have let me buy some bananas," said my mother, settling herself down into the corner booth of the restaurant. Music that was neither one thing nor another played softly in the background. Tired of the rain and being wet all the time, I´d taken my mother to Brent Cross in north London for the day, she´d travelled thousands of miles in order
30 to go to a shopping centre.
"Mom," I said, not as patiently as I had the first few dozen times I´d said this, "Mom, you´ve got to stop trying to buy bananas. You´ve got to try to understand: there´s no longer a fruit shortage in Great Britain. That was during the war. Now you tan buy bananas whenever you avant. You tan buy mangoes and ugly fruit and papaya. We are no longer restricted to root vegetables."
..~. "Look over there," said my mother. "Are those Puerto Ricans?" Two handsome young men in tracksuit bottoms and heavy metal T-shirts, multi-coloured baseball boots on their feet, leather bracelets and silver bangles on their wrists, skeletons dangling from their ears, and their pitchblack hair pulled back in ponytails by neon-pink hairbands, were sitting a few tables away.
"They´re not Puerto Rican."
"They look Puerto Rican."
"Mom, we are in London, England, home of Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Barbara
Cartland and the Queen, not the lower East Side. Those guys are not Puerto Rican."
"They are eating chocolate chip cookies," noted my mother. "They´re drinking milk-shakes." "Give me a break, will you, Mom? You eat pizza and you are not Italian."
~5 "That´s not the saine thing, and you know it." My mother shook her head again, almost sadly.
"I dont know," said my mother. "England is not exactly like I pictured it." "Britain," I corrected.
Dyan Sheldon, A Woman´s Eue Today, 1990
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