BRIDGET JONES THE EDGE OF REASON HELEN FIELDING

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BRIDGET JONESTHE EDGE OF REASONHELEN FIELDING

tepánka Kavanová Lucie Prokeová
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Contemporary British Literature
Genres and Authors
Children literature J. K. Rowling - Harry
Potter Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole Novels Muriel
Spark Memento Mori, The best years of Jean
Brodie - She was born in
Edinburgh Poetry Ian Stephen Menhirs in
Callanish Sci-fi Douglas Adams - The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Our choice

• We had chosen The Bridget Jones Diary, because
  the book and the main characters are
  entertainment and it takes place in present days.
  There are the same problems as probably some of
  us has.

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AuthorHelen Fielding

• She was born
  in Morley (north Yorkshire) in 1960, she
  attended Wakefield Girls' high
  school, St Anne's College and University of
  Oxford.
• She worked as a TV producer of
  documentaries for BBC in Africa, where she got
  material for her first, but overlooked, novel
  Cause Celeb (1994). It exams relationship between
  starving people in Africa and rich celebrities in
  the West.
• Helen started to write The Bridget Jones
  Diary, when she was writing columns for the
  Independent.
• The influence on Helen had certainly Jane
  Austens publications.
• Her last novel named Olivia Joules and
  the Overactive Imagination was introduced in
  2003.
• Now she lives and works in London and
  Los Angeles.
• 
  

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Key words and phrases

• In the course of the reading, I have adopted, for
  example, these key words that I had not used
  before
• to yell - to shout
• hideous ugly
• a meat hatchet ??
• Have a fag? Have you got a cigarette?
• along side next to someone
• puzzled confused
• Isnt that marvellous! - Isnt it strange?
• smugly with happiness of myself
• indeed - really
• to try to slip to try to enter somewhere
  secretly

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Quotation

• Honestly, Bridget! Life is for living! If Daddy
  wants to live between golf and the potting shed,
  thats up to him. (pg.78, chapter 3)
• Uprímne Bridget! ivot je k tomu, aby se il!
  Pokud táta chce ít mezi golfem a kulnou na
  náradí, je to na nem.
• We had chosen this quotation, because its the
  best advice for life.

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What I didnt know before reading the book is
that

• We didnt know before that the first British
  single of Madonna wasnt Lucky Star, but Holiday
  was.

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Person I have chosen to compare myself with

• Bridget Jones against to tepka
• Bridget wants to solve her problems at the
  moment without long thinking about it. Against to
  tepka, she thinks about her problems before she
  solve it.
• Both of these ladies arent afraid to tell
  their opinion aloud.
• Because of Bridgets crazy ideas she get into
  silly situations. tepka is calm and considerate,
  so she doesnt get into these situations.

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If I were, I would

• If we were Bridget Jones, we wouldnt be
  so suspicious and jealous, so we wouldnt climb
  on the roof window of our boyfriends house.
• We would stay at home, because we would
  asked him what he is going to do in the evening.
  We would believe him.

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Conclusion

• Is difficult to understand The Edge of
  Reason, if you arent perfect in English. There
  are so, so many slang expressions (honestly, some
  of these expressions arent even in a
  dictionary).
• But in a result the book is full of funny
  situations, dialogues and advices for life (your
  behaviour should be against to Bridgets).
• If you like to laugh to others
  unhappiness, this book was written for you.
• For us was reading this book very useful,
  because we learned a couple of new phrases and
  words.

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