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by Jeffrey Archer
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ADING TASK

1. ead the title of the story. What do you think this story could be about? Think of different characters
and settings.

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ADING TASKS

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1. How many characters can you identify? What are they doing at this stage? Where are they? Is it morning
or night?
2. Why did the narrator pretend to be sleeping?
3. Describe the narrator´s feelings about oger.
4. Do you think oger cares about the narrator? Why (not)?

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1. Where did the narrator meet oger?

2. Who is Madeleine?
3. What did she decide to do twenty days later?
4. What did the narrator do when Madeleine left oger alone?
5. Did oger feel upset when the narrator sat beside him?

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1. Describe the first contact between the narrator and oger.
2. Where did the narrator and oger go after leaving the pub?
3. Why did the narrator envy Madeleine?

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1. The narrator has been to the Cat and Whistle a couple of times after they first met.
2. oger still remembers Madeleine.
3. The narrator has met her father.
4. Derek is the narrator´s brother.
 5. The narrator still looks after her children.

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1. What kind of job do you think the narrator had at the pub?
2. How did the narrator use to get paid?
3. Why do the narrator and oger have a good relationship?

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1. What does oger generally do after the alarm clock goes off?
2. Does the narrator prepare her own breakfast?

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1. What did the narrator exactly do when she went downstairs?
2. What kind of friend do YOU think she is now? Justify your answer.

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ADING TASK

a ñrepare a collage in order to illustrate this short story! Get as many pictures as possible!