1.Titel: A Room with a View
2. Auteur: Edward Morgan Forster
3. Wanneer is het verhaal geschreven: 1809
4. Soort verhaal: Roman
5. Waar speelt het zich af: Florence, Italy and Surrey, England
6. Hoofdpersoon: Lucy Honeychurch
A young woman who doesn’t really know what she wants. Her character is good – as in “nice”, she respects all people no matter what class of society they’re from, like the Emersons. She’s also a bit shy, because she is still so young and vulnerable.
Charlotte Barlett:
Lucy’s older cousin. She likes, or even better, loves and lives by manners and the rulebook, what makes her very old-fashioned. She always seems very tense and never relaxed. Because she’s Lucy’s chaperone in Italy she is very responsible for all of Lucy’s actions and sometimes this can lead into not very intelligent actions by Charlotte.
7. Uit welk milieu zijn de personen afkomstig: Lucy and Charlotte are definitely form the upper class of society.
8.
Samenvatting
Lucy Honeychurch, a young upper middle class woman, visits Italy under the charge of her older cousin Charlotte. At their pension, or guesthouse, in Florence, they are given rooms that look into the courtyard rather than out over the river Arno. Mr. Emerson, a fellow guest, generously offers them the rooms belonging to himself and his son George. Although Charlotte is offended by Mr. Emerson's lack of tact and propriety, she finally does agree to the switch. Lucy is an avid young pianist. Mr. Beebe, watches her passionate playing and predicts that someday she will live her life with as much gusto as she plays the piano.
Lucy's visit to Italy is marked by several significant encounters with the Emersons. In Santa Croce church, George complains that his father means well, but always offends everyone. Mr. Emerson tells Lucy that his son needs her in order to overcome his youthful melancholy. Later, Lucy is walking in the Piazza Signoria, feeling dull, when she comes in close contact with two quarrelling Italian men. One man stabs the other, and she faints, to be rescued by George. On their return trip home, he kisses her, much to her surprise. She keeps his rash behaviour a secret.
On a country outing in the hills, Lucy wanders in search of Mr. Beebe and the supercilious chaplain, Mr. Eager. However, the Italian cab driver leads her instead to George, who is standing on a terrace covered with blue violets. George sees her and again kisses her, but this time Charlotte sees him and chastises him after they have returned to the pension. She leaves with Lucy for Rome the next day.
The second half of the book centres on Lucy's home in Surrey, where she lives with her mother, Mrs. Honeychurch, and her brother, Freddy. A man she met in Rome, the snobbish Cecil Vyse, proposes marriage to her for the third time, and she accepts him. He disapproves of her family and the country people she knows, finding them coarse and unsophisticated. There is a small, ugly villa available for rent in the town, and as a joke, Cecil offers it to the Emersons, whom he meets by chance in a museum. They take him up on the offer and move in, much to Lucy's initial horror.
George plays tennis with the Honeychurches on a Sunday when Cecil is at his most intolerable. After the game, Cecil reads from a book by Miss Lavish, a woman who also stayed with Lucy and Charlotte at the pension in Florence. The novel records a kiss among violets, and Lucy realizes that Charlotte let the secret out. In a moment alone, George kisses her again. Lucy tells him to leave, but George insists that Cecil is not the right man for her, characterizing Cecil as controlling and appreciative of things rather than people. Lucy sees Cecil in a new light, and breaks off her engagement that night.
However, Lucy will not believe that she loves George; she wants to stay unmarried and travel to Greece with some elderly women she met in Italy, the Miss Alans. She meets old Mr. Emerson by chance, who insists that she loves George and should marry him, because it is what her soul truly wants. Lucy realizes he is right, and though she must fly against convention, she marries George, and the book ends with the happy couple staying together in the Florence pension again, in a room with a view.
9. Eigen Mening/ Wat vind je van dit verhaal?
I wasn’t a very big fan of this book. I can’t really figure out why not, but the story just didn’t appeal to me. I didn’t like the “Miss this, Miss that” and “Mrs this” and so on. It was really confusing. I know that is because of the time period where it was written in, and it’s all part of the story. But I guess it’s just not my kind of book.
10. Het belangrijkste onderwerp van het verhaal:
I think the most important lesson learned from this book, is that you should follow your heart, and not care about reputations. Lucy decides to marry Cecil, though she doesn’t even love him. I get the feeling that she said yes because it was expected from her, instead of following her heart and realize that they just weren’t mend for each other.
11. Titelverklaring: When the story begins Luca and Charlotte arrive in Florence and they were promised a room with a view, which they don’t get. They talk about this during dinner and two nice gentlemen offer their room, which does have a view over the river Arno. It all starts off with this, so that explains the title of the book.
12. Gedeelte van het boek:
13. Het verschil tussen het begin en het einde:
In the beginning of the book Lucy is very stubborn, but still does everything that is expected from her. She meets her first real love, but doesn’t answer his love. In the end she is very wise and decides to chose to follow her heart anyway.
14. Herkenning: Not really, but sometimes you act like other people want you to act. So you do things that might not benefit yourself but others.
15. Bewuster geworden: No, not really. I realized that always pleasing others does not please yourself.
16. leuk 4 makkelijk 3
stom 2 moeilijk 3
boeiend 3 herkenbaar 4
saai 2 niet herkenbaar 2
interessant 3 levensecht 4
niet interessant 3 onwaarschijnlijk 2
17. Leukste persoon in het verhaal: Freddy Honeychurch
18. Minst leuk persoon: Charlotte, she was just too up tide.
19. Herken je de manier waarop de hoofdpersoon reageert? No.
20. – trouw
- Humor
- Sociaal
- Eerlijk
- Vriendelijk
Persoon die hier het meest op lijkt:
Lucy Honeychurch, she’s such a nice and warm person, always willing to go out and explore the world, much like me and my friends. I think she’s very honest to others, but I m not sure if she is always honest to herself. She’s also really friendly and loving to others.
21. a. De relatie tussen Lucy en George en waarom vielen deze op elkaar?
They accidentally met in the hotel in Florence and since then they had some sort of feelings for each other.
b. Zal de relatie slagen? It did, but you might not think so in the beginning.
c. De problemen van de personen? The family of Lucy does not support their love and that makes it very hard.
d. Hoe pakken ze het probleem aan? They do not care what the others think and finally do what they always wanted to do.
e. Worden de problemen opgelost? Yes
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J.
J.
Het verhaal is niet in 1809 maar in 1908 geschreven!
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H.
hey heb even een vraagje over je uitreksel
A room with A view van Edward M Forster
in welke tijd speelt het zich af ?!
alvast bedankt !
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