A WORD ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 638.

THINKING AHEAD

TEDDY

ADDITIONAL READING

PROJECT SUGGESTIONS (Stories 11 – 15)

Work in small groups. Do a bit of brainstorming and come up with an idea for an invention – the one that could change the world. Prepare a careful description and use some bits of exaggeration here and there. Make it part of your presentation on Inventions Fair. Hopefully, some day some of those might become a reality!

Everyone living is a unique human being. Yet there are some among us who are “more unique” than others. They have been called differently throughout the centuries. Perhaps, child prodigies have gained the greatest attention. Salinger paid his to the problem of being very different from everybody else. It seems that being unlike others is not an altogether happy situation. After reading the story, we might understand it even better.

Jerome David Salinger (1919—2010) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. Raised in Manhattan, New York, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published his first short story in 1940. In 1951 Salinger released his first novel The Catcher in the Rye that was an immediate popular success. Three collections of short stories followed – Nine Stories (1953) among them. His last published piece of writing, a novella titled “Hapworth 16, 1924” appeared in The New Yorker in 1965.

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