- tells a lot about the landscape: for me it would be boring, but for him it is like a paradise
- the main characters are very different (narrator is old-fashioned / the lady is modern) =>the conflict
- the narrator must be very nice but its crazy that he lives in his own old world
- it is typical for old people that they have there own traditions / so they can do what they proved out and what is good for them
- nowadays there are people like him, but mostly they are very old, traditional and don’t know anything about the new techniques like the internet or computers in general
- he built his opinion about somebody without knowing that person (he only notice the person)
- I think it is a little bit strange that he thinks partly very bad about the lady but he doesn’t say anything to her about her bad behaviour
Theme: Irish people who goes away from Ireland and come back.
- 150 years ago a lot of people leave Ireland because of the famine and the bad industry
- so there are only 3,5 million people in Ireland but 70 million people with an Irish
background around the world
- the people don’t want to leave Ireland but they have to do it
- there a lot of Irish groups in America
- but the Irish government did a lot of things for the Irish industry
- nowadays Ireland has the lowest taxes in Europe
- the Irish people have a very high education
- that’s are reasons why big firms like Microsoft and Intel comes and want to produce in
Ireland
- the unemployment rate is 4 % and the lowest in Europe
- so a lot of Irish people comes back from America or other places in the world to work in
their home country
- because of that change the Irish people has a national pride for the first time
