summary The book “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe

[tanijan]

Habe eine Zusammenfassung des Buches gemacht “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe... es wird hilfreich sein, für die Klausur, welche ich am kommenden Mittwoch schreiben werde. Wäre für eine Berichtigung und eine bessere Formulierung, wenn nötig, echt dankbar.

Summary

The book “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe deals with young people on a gap year between school and university.

David, the skeptical British narrator of this novel, who just wants to sleep with Liz, his best friend`s girlfriend travels with Liz to spending three harrowing and thrilling months backpacking in India the summer before starting university.
The best friend, James, brags (prahlt) about his upcoming (bevorstehnde) trip to various Third World countries and once he departs (abfährt), David and Liz become uneasy (unruhig) friends and quasi-lovers, planning their own journey to India.

But at the beginning Dave and Liz doesn’t like to travel anywhere.
James wants to go on a world tour with his school friends.
His friends call David a coward, because he doesn’t want to come with them. He will go to work in Switzerland for a month.
Liz will not go with James and his school friends, because she wants to visit a special course in university.

But after the work in Switzerland Dave comes back and Liz is finished her curs.
That’s the reason why Liz and Dave agree that they travel to India.

Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion (Begleitung) for her voyage (Resie) of spiritual self-discovery.

It doesn't take Dave long to realize that he's made a terrible mistake. He can't handle the heat, he can't stomach the food, he's depressed by the poverty, and he hates the other travelers. Er hat Durchfall, das Chaos und die Hitz schmettern ihn runter.
It also rapidly dawns on him (rasch Licht aufgehn) that he hates Liz.
Liz, however, loves India.

Once there, David is shocked, because India. There are many people and it is like to stepping into an oven. Also he doesn’t likes that there are so many poor peoples.
Also Dave und Liz are fighting often.

When Liz falls for Jeremy, a rich, self-righteous poseur, David is annoyed but takes "J's" advice (Ratschlag) to travel from Delhi to Manali, where pot is cheap and plentiful. Jeremy shows up there, too, directing everyone to the "real" India, complaining about the "two-week" tourists who ruin India for honest, caring travelers like himself. David finds decent company with an Anglo-Indian named Ranj, who's running away from his wealthy, prominent family. Meanwhile, Liz ditches David to join an ashram, and while David is disgusted by Liz's hypocrisy and fed up with her cultish karma-chasing attitude, he's soon confronted by his own folly. Traveling solo, David meets a journalist whose hostile diatribe pinpoints the theory at the heart of the novel: that David is merely on a "poverty-tourism adventure holiday," willfully ignorant of Indian culture and therefore offensive. The real soul-searching follows, along with David's first bout with dysentery, an extravagant week with Ranj and the grateful return to good green England.

[Duckduck (Contributor)]

Hi tanijan,

so funktioniert es irgendwie nicht! Ich habe schon einige Texte von Dir korrigiert und deshalb einen Eindruck von Deinen Fähigkeiten und Deinem Stil gewonnen. Und dass Du diesen Text über weite Strecken nicht selbst formuliert hast, ist nicht schwer zu erkennen. Ich werde mich jetzt nicht hinsetzen und die summary von Publishers Weekly korrigieren!!! Und Dein Englisch-Lehrer merkt diesen Bruch in Deinem Stil doch auch! Es ist nicht schlimm, wenn Du Dir Anregungen holst, aber Du kannst doch nicht ganze Passagen einfach abtippen.

Grüße
Duckduck

[tanijan]

Ich habe mir verschiedenen Anregung geholt und diese zusammengefügt und geändert...
und wollte diese Zusammenfassung dann für die Klausur auswendig lernen...
das ist doch nicht verboten (oder?).
Mein Lehrer sieht doch nur dass ich mich vorbereitet habe???
Auswendig lernen ist doch hilfreich, sowohl für eine gute Note, wie für die Verbesserung meines Englischs. ???

Bis Mittwoch schaff ich das ja nicht mein Englisch so aufzubessern, dass ich die Klausur sehr gut schreibe. Eine gute Summary die ich auswendig lerne, wäre einfach hilfreich...
so mach ich das immer... und dann verwende ich die richtigen auswendig gelernten Sätze an...nicht unbedingt die ganze Summary, je nach wie die Aufgabe ist...
und änder das auswendig Gelernte so um, dass es zur Aufgabe passt... So mach ich weniger Fehler und es funktioniert...

Liebe Grüße
Tani

[Duckduck (Contributor)]

Habe eine Zusammenfassung des Buches gemacht “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe... es wird hilfreich sein, für die Klausur, welche ich am kommenden Mittwoch schreiben werde. Wäre für eine Berichtigung und eine bessere Formulierung, wenn nötig, echt dankbar.

Summary

The book “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe deals with young people on a gap year between school and university.

David, the skeptical British narrator of this novel, who just wants to sleep with Liz, his best friend`s girlfriend travels with Liz to spending three harrowing and thrilling months backpacking in India the summer before starting university.
The best friend, James, brags (prahlt) about his upcoming (bevorstehnde) trip to various Third World countries and once he departs (abfährt), David and Liz become uneasy (unruhig) friends and quasi-lovers, planning their own journey to India.

But at the beginning Dave and Liz doesn’t like to travel anywhere.
James wants to go on a world tour with his school friends.
His friends call David a coward, because he doesn’t want to come with them. He will go to work in Switzerland for a month.
Liz will not go with James and his school friends, because she wants to visit a special course in university.

But after the work in Switzerland Dave comes back and Liz is finished her curs.
That’s the reason why Liz and Dave agree that they travel to India.

Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion (Begleitung) for her voyage (Resie) of spiritual self-discovery.

It doesn't take Dave long to realize that he's made a terrible mistake. He can't handle the heat, he can't stomach the food, he's depressed by the poverty, and he hates the other travelers. Er hat Durchfall, das Chaos und die Hitz schmettern ihn runter.
It also rapidly dawns on him (rasch Licht aufgehn) that he hates Liz.
Liz, however, loves India.

Once there, David is shocked, because India. There are many people and it is like to stepping into an oven. Also he doesn’t likes that there are so many poor peoples.
Also Dave und Liz are fighting often.

When Liz falls for Jeremy, a rich, self-righteous poseur, David is annoyed but takes "J's" advice (Ratschlag) to travel from Delhi to Manali, where pot is cheap and plentiful. Jeremy shows up there, too, directing everyone to the "real" India, complaining about the "two-week" tourists who ruin India for honest, caring travelers like himself. David finds decent company with an Anglo-Indian named Ranj, who's running away from his wealthy, prominent family. Meanwhile, Liz ditches David to join an ashram, and while David is disgusted by Liz's hypocrisy and fed up with her cultish karma-chasing attitude, he's soon confronted by his own folly. Traveling solo, David meets a journalist whose hostile diatribe pinpoints the theory at the heart of the novel: that David is merely on a "poverty-tourism adventure holiday," willfully ignorant of Indian culture and therefore offensive. The real soul-searching follows, along with David's first bout with dysentery, an extravagant week with Ranj and the grateful return to good green England.

Der grüne Teil ist wortwörtlich eine Inhaltsangabe von Publishers Weekly, wahrscheinlich aus amazon und anderen (lovelybooks) abgeschrieben, oder?

Hierin sind natürlich keine Fehler, denn es ist wohl von einem Muttersprachler verfasst worden. Wenn Du das Deinem Lehrer so präsentieren willst und der das gut findet, kann ich dagegen nichts einwenden - wenn ich es auch ganz schön seltsam finde, denn in den von Dir selbst verfassten Sätzen sind dermaßen heftige Fehler, dass man die Diskrepanz nicht übersehen kann. Ich will Dir nicht in Dein Leben reinreden, Du musst das machen, wie Du willst. Aber das mindeste, was ich von Dir erwarte ist, dass Du "Deinen" Teil noch einmal ganz aufmerksam durchliest und selbst verbesserst. Dann will ich auch wohl noch nachschauen. Aber verstehe bitte, dass wir nicht für Dich eine richtige Version fast neu schreiben, die Du dann nur noch auswendig lernst, OK?

Grüße
Duckduck

[tanijan]

Ja klar!!!

Ich verstehe Sie schon.

Nur hätte nicht erwartet das es einen so großen Unterschied macht, ob ich jetzt einen selbst geschrieben Text oder einen Text, womit ich lernen will berichtigen lasse.
Ich dachte das Forum hilft und gibt nachhilfe...

aber nehme es zur Kenntnis

Liebe Grüße und eine gute Nacht
Tani

[Duckduck (Contributor)]

Hallo tanijan,

nun will ich das auch beenden. Es tut mir leid, wenn Du Dich im Stich gelassen fühlen solltest. Ich habe mal Deine Beiträge angesehen, und dabei festgestellt, dass sie alle aufmerksam korrigiert worden sind. Insofern finde ich schon, dass wir hier helfen.

Und ich sage es noch einmal, korrigiere bitte den Teil Deiner summary, den Du selbst geschrieben hast, und ich will ihn gerne nachkorrigieren.

Grüße von
Duckduck

[tanijan]

Hallo Duckduck

Ja klar ihr habt mir ja auch oft geholfen, das weiß ich!
und bin auch dankbar!
Und froh das es Mensch gibt, welche helfen, ohne nur an ihre eignen Vorteile zu denken.
Ich versuch mir meinen Teil bzw. die Summary überhaupt, selbst zu formulieren und füge es für die Verbesserung hier nochmal ein.

Vielen Dank nochmal und finde die Seite super!!!!!

Liebe Grüße
Tani

[tanijan]

The book “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe deals with young people on a gap year between school and university.

David, the skeptical British narrator of this novel is the only boy who didn't travel with his school friends on a world tour in his free months.

His friends call David a coward, because he doesn’t want to come with them.
He wants to go on a world tour but he doesn't have the courage.
He knows that when he visits a poor country, he can learn alot from the experience. But he doesn’t like the dirt and the diseases you see and can get in a poor country and so thats why he doesn’t want to go there.
Instead, (Stattdessen) he wants to work in Switzerland for a month.

However, he doesn’t know what to do when he gets back from Switzerland, because all his friends are visiting other countries and he is so left alone.
But Liz is there, James' girlfriend. David takes out his phone and calls her.

Liz does not go with James and his school friends, because she wants to visit a special course in university. That’s why Liz and David meet each other every day to spend time together.
David falls in love with Liz, but Liz loves James.

As Liz also finishes her course, David and Liz, friends and quasi-lovers, plann their own journey to India.

David, who just wants to sleep with Liz, his best friend’s girlfriend travels with Liz to India, where they spend three months backpacking. After that university started. He does this because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed.
Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion (Begleitung) for her voyage (Reise) of spiritual self-discovery.

Once there, David is shocked. There are many people and it is like to stepping into an oven. Also he doesn’t like that there were so many poor people in on spot.

In the hotel room, there stayed one other person. His name is J., a short form for Jeremy.
Jeremy has been in India for a long time and has collected a lot of information which can help them.
For example he tells them that they cannot eat meat in India, because that will make them ill.

It doesn't take Dave long to realize that he's made a terrible mistake. He can't handle the heat, he can't eat the food, he's depressed by the poverty, and he hates the other travelers.
And he also realizes that he hates Liz from time to time.
Liz, however, loves India.

Liz induces David to join an ashram, but David is fed up with Liz and he is annoyed with her cultish karma-chasing attitude, he decides to travel solo.

David meets a journalist on his solo trip who says that
David is just on a "poverty-tourism adventure holiday," willfully ignorant of Indian culture.

The real soul-searching follows, along with David's first bout with dysentery, an extravagant week with Ranj, an Englishman from Putney. He is running away from his wealthy prominent family. And the grateful return to good green England.

[Duckduck (Contributor)]

The book “Are you experienced” by William Sutcliffe deals with / is about young people on a gap year between school and university.

David is a young man from London and he is the narrator of this novel. Whereas all of his school friends plan to go on a world tour, he does not want to join them.

His friends call him a coward because of that. And really he would like to go on a world tour but he does not have the courage.
He knows that when he visits a poor country, he can learn a lot from the experience. But he does not like the dirt and the diseases there and that is why he does not want to go.
Instead, (Stattdessen) he wants to work in Switzerland for a month.

However, when he gets back from Switzerland, he does not know what to do with himself, because all his friends are visiting other countries. and he is so left alone.
Only Liz is there. She is his friend's James' girlfriend, but has not joined him because she wants to visit a special course in university. David calls her on the phone and they meet each other every day to spend time together.
David falls in love with Liz, but Liz loves James.

When Liz has finished her course, they plan their own backpacking journey to India.
Liz takes Dave along because she wants a companion (Begleitung) for her voyage (Reise) of spiritual self-discovery.
David just wants to sleep with Liz and thinks that he might not get a chance once university is started.

As soon as they arrive in India, David is shocked. There are so many people and it is like to stepping into an oven. Also he does not like to see so many poor people in one spot.

They share their hotel room with another person. His name is J., a short form for Jeremy.
Jeremy has been in India for a long time and has collected a lot of information which can help them.
For example he tells them that they cannot eat meat in India, because that will make them ill.

It does not take Dave long to realize that he has made a terrible mistake. He cannot handle the heat, he cannot eat the food, he is depressed by the poverty, and he hates the other travelers.
And he also realizes that he hates Liz from time to time.
Liz, however, loves India.

Liz induces David to join an ashram, but David is fed up with Liz and he is annoyed with her cultish karma-chasing attitude. So he decides to travel solo.

David meets a journalist on his solo trip who says that David is just on a "poverty-tourism adventure holiday" and seems to remain willfully ignorant of Indian culture.
Then follows the real soul-searching. Although David is weakened by dysentery he spends an extravagant week with Ranj, an Englishman from Putney, who is running away from his wealthy prominent family. And finally David returns home to his beloved home country England.

Hey tanijan, das hast Du ganz prima gemacht!!!

Ich freue mich sehr, dass Du einen Text zustande bekommen hast, der wirklich Deinem Können entspricht. Ich habe den Stil hier und da noch etwas verfeinert und die Kurzformen in Langformen verwandelt, weil in geschriebenen Texten "does not" erwartet wird, nicht "doesn't". Viel Glück für Mittwoch!

Duckduck

[tanijan]

Vielen Vielen Vielen Dank für die so schnelle Berichtigung !!!!!!!!!!