Look at the front cover and observe it. How do you relate the title to the picture?
I thing that (before to read this book) the title "Two lives" explain the two differents lives of a two differents persons that fell in love. In the picture appear a boy and a girl, who was hugging in front of a lake.
Most of the story takes place in Tredonald, Wales. Find information about this coal mining village.
With the Industrial Revolution ( 17th and 18th c ) , coal mining, a tiny industry in the 15th century, became a national and international industry. Thus, the 19th century was a century of massive expansion for the coal industry in Wales. But the end of the 20th century brought almost universe closure. Find information about 1984 miners' strike
The strike begins
In 1984, the announcement came that 20 pits were to close, with 20,000 jobs to go. It was later disclosed that the government, in preparation for the much-anticipated industrial action, had been stockpiling coal to take Britain through the winter.
Initial locally-organised strikes across the UK became a national NUM strike in March 1984. But NUM leader Arthur Scargill decreed that NUM regions could decide whether or not to strike on an independent basis.
As the strike continued, strains and stresses began to be felt. The workers earned no money and were ineligible for benefits as the strike was deemed illegal; they had to rely on scrimping, saving and handouts.
Personal relationships strained and sometimes broke as some decided to work through the strike.
On the picket lines, buses carrying miner workers were attacked, and other disturbances took place. Miners clashed with massed ranks of police repeatedly and fiercely all over the country.
The official end of the strike came on 3 March 1985, when a vote was passed to return to work even without a new agreement with management. The pits closed rapidly over the next few years, and in 1994 the industry was finally privatised.
NUM = National Union of Miners
- Charpter 1: YOUNG LOVE
Life was not easy for the Thomas family." Why?
Her life was not easy because the father do not work, and the money arrive thanks to the sons. The father time back was going out of home in the morning and at night he comes with money or something to eat. But now he didn't come home at all, also her father is an alcoholic.
Richard Thomas had been killed while fighting in North Africa in 1943. Which war was it ?
This fighting belong to the Second World War.
In chapter 1 we know that Megan and Huw are good friends. Describe the moment
When Huw goes out to speak with Mr Jenkins and Megan says: Feel like going for a walk later, Huw?
And because the book explain about him:
She and Huw had been friends for years. They used to sit together at school, and out of school they spent a lot of time with each other. Now their friendship seemed to be getting even stronger.
Charpter 2 THE FRIENDSHIP CONTINUES
In this chapter Megan and Huw take a decision about their relationship. Explain it. Why do they take it?
In this Chapter Huw kisses Megan. He want that she can be his girl, but Megan says: "If my father could see now this, he'd never let me come out with you again". And finaly they're finish as friends. They take this decision because the Megan's father does not want his daughter be the girlfriend of a coal miner. He wants that Megan can be a good future.
. Chapter 3: Romance grows
This Saturday was going to be a night to remember." Why?
Because spent one day away from her village behave how two were lovers. They can kept by the hand and kiss without think if the people see him.
. Chapter 4: Death at the mine / Leaving Tredonald
After the first four chapters, how would you define the relationship between Huw and his brother?
I think that her relationship is very cold, her brother only thinks about the money and work all the time. Huw hates her work and when he finishes her work he pass a lot of time with Megan. But the most important problem of this family is that the father is alcocholic and doesn't work. This family is poor and this affects the relationship with the two brothers, they don't be "friends" but will hold each other, another very big problem is that her mother was died. Everything gone wrong when her brother was die in the coal mine.
Chapter 6: A surprise find
Megan finds the letters Huw had sent her 50 years before, in 1946 and 1947. Imagine Meg's father was still alive and that you are Meg. What would you tell him?
I think that first I talk with my father very quiet, after so what he did have do to me is very serious I think I would go away from the village who lived to forgot my father and return to speak with Huw even as friends.
In the first letter Meg asks Huw: " Do you think he wanted me to find them when it was to late?". What dou you think?
I think that Huw dreamed that this was happen, but he never imagined it happening so late. I think that Huw will be flyes up to wales to see who was their young love.
Chapter 7: Time to decide
Before leaving Tredonald, Huw told Megan : "in a year ...I'll come back here and we'll get married..." ( pag.23 ); but things turned out to be completely different. Why ?
Because he belived that Megan no longer loved him and had forgotten him, so he tired to do the same, forgot her.
Chapter 8: Telling Beth
Find some information about Cardiff ( 3 lines ) and post a picture
Cardiff castle.
Coal port.
Cardiff is largest city and most populous county in Wales. Have got the world's largest coal port, also there are a lot of medieval history, Complementing Cardiff Castle is a second castle north of the city, called Castell Coch (Welsh: "Red Castle").Cardiff has a chequered linguistic history with Welsh, English, Latin, Norse, and most of the population was Catholic or Jewish.
Because Beth is her her daughter. I think that she act that way because in the deep of her heart she feel the same love to Huw that when she was sixteen. Exactly that Huw
Chapter 11 : A new star
What's Meg's present job?
The old coal mine now is a museum, and Megan was the guide.
Why does Huw tell her " you always were a fighter, weren't you?" ? ( pag.48 )
Do you think two people can still be in love after 50 years without seeing each other?
I think that you can't lose the love, you can forget with the pass of the time, because in this book the partner was forgot each other but 50 years after with a little part of time, they again to remember because when they was sixteen they was feel in love with each other. Especially If they break up because of another person and the partner doesn't know what to did.
Chapter 17 : Time to go
Imagie the conversation between Paul and Megan the moment she tells him that she is still in love with Huw. Write it down
I think that the most funny think is her face in the moment that Megan tell him that she loves Huw. I think that he said him because she could not have said it before, and appear questions: What can we do now? Are your sure? You don't love me? But I think that she did the right thing. She listen wich her heart says, no her head.
Did you like the book? Why ? What did you learn by reading it?
I love this book, the first time that I saw the two books I chose this because the title and the cover was more beatiful than the other, but I think that I chose the best choice. I did not take anything, none lesson because in the time of my life I read and saw a lot of love stories and this not be a very long and worked book is simple, but I pass a really good time reading this book. Is a very beatiful history and I think that I improved my englis
