Moon Palace - 2nd lesson

Hello everyone, 

For our second week of working on Moon Palace, we focused on its characters and the different aspects the novel holds.

First of all, each student had to form groups, study a specific character and present it orally. We focused on Marco Stanley Fogg, Thomas Effing and Salomon Barber (the 3 main characters), but we also focused on Uncle Victor, Kitty Wu and Zimmer who played an important role in the protagonist's life. We studied each character and their complex role in the book. 

MS Fogg, raised by his uncle Victor after the death of his mother, is a Columbian student who becomes homeless and is saved by his former college classmates, Zimmer and Kitty Wu. They are very faithful to him. To survive, he works for a wheelchaired man and discovers that his father is Barber, who is the son of Effing. In fact, Effing recruits Fogg to write his own unbelievable story. They eventually bond and establish a relationship. When Effing dies, he makes Fogg promise to meet Barber, his own son that he never met. Barber and Fogg finally meet in New York and throughout the pages, both will discover that they are related as Barber is actually Fogg's own father because he had a relationship with his mother, Emily Fogg.  

Of course, the characters are way more complex and have a more tremendous stories than the little summary but we invite you to make more researches on your own, or to read Mrs Bowley's course.  

Finally, we finished the week by studying the different aspects the novel dealt with. Indeed, the novel deals with a lot of coincidences, time and space travelling, and hidden figure meanings. To learn more about these aspects, we were once again gathered into groups and had to work on a complete French essay, dealing with an aspect, report it into English, and gather all the information we found orally. All of these information constituted an interesting course on things we might haven't got instantly, while reading the book.

https://books.openedition.org/pur/33843?lang=fr