The graduate door Charles Webb

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Auteur
Charles Webb
Taal
Engels
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Eerste uitgave
1963
Pagina's
272
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Engels
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A. Gegevens

Titel: The Graduate
Auteur: Charels Web
Eerste druk: 1963 (USA) en 1964 (Great Britain)
Gelezen druk: 25e druk, 1988
Copyright © Charels Webb, 1963
Lang verslag – 193 paginas
School: Bornego College

B. Mening voraf

I choosed this book because a friend of mind said that it was a good book to read. After I read the first pages I thought that book wasn’t too dificult ro read and it was’nt bad at all.

C. Summary

The book is devided in 3 parts and 9 chapters. I will give an summary for each chapter.

1
Benjamin Braddock was just graduated from a small Eastern college on a day in june, when his parents invided some friends of them to come and congratualate Benjamin. Benajamin wasn’t going to the party, because he had different thing on his mind, but his father and monther forced him to. During the evening he talked to some people. After a while Mrs Robinson asked him to take her home. See page 15: Benjamin reached into one of his pockets foer the keys. ‘Here’ he said. ‘You take the car.’ But after she talked a while to him, he agreed to take her home. When they arrived at the house of Mrs. Robinson, she asked him to come on in, because she is afraid of being alone in the house. After some talk he agreed and get in the house, but against his will. Inside they talked a time, a drinked some things together. Then she went upstairs and called him, when he was upstairs, she was naked and tried to seduce him. But he didn’t want to spent the time with her. She said that if he would change his mind, he could call her. They talked for a time, when he heard Mr. Robinson came home, he went as fast as he could downstairs and sat down on the chair. He told Mr. Robinson that he had taken his wife home, and that she was upstairs. Then Mrs. Robinson came in the room, dressed.
2
Benjamin was walking the most of time around, and thinked about different things. He got a diving-suit from his parents, and had to show all the people how he dive. Some days later he decided to go on a trip, because wasn’t feeling good at home and that he wanted to met some ordinary people.
3
See page 42: The trip lasted just less than three weeks. When Benjamin returned, his parents asked him out, where he was, he told them that he was fighting fire somewhere and that he talked to a lot people.
Two days after his trip he drove to a Hotel and called Mrs. Robinson over for a drink. After they drunk some couples of glasses they decided to spent the night together in a hotel room.
4
During a period Benjamin was seeing Mrs. Robinson often, and spent only the night with her. Benjamins father talked to Benjamin, because he doesn’t do anything, except for drinking and smoking all day and going at the night for hours away. Benjamin says that he his just driving around late at night, but his father won’t believe him. Mr. Robinson came along and asked Benjamin if he could call Mr. Robinson daughter, Ellaine, this weekend. Benjamin wrote a letter to Mrs. Robinson that he couldn’t see her anymore, because he would get a nervous wreck. But some days later it was all the same, and he met Mrs. Robinson again in Hotel Taft. When they got upstairs, he wanted this time talk to her, but she not. See page 78: ‘I don’t want to interrupt your thoughts, but do you think we might do a little talking?’ After Benjamin asked and talked a lot of things to her, she said to him that he may never take Elaine out. He agreed.
5
Benjamins parents forced Benjamin to take Elaine out. When he was at the house of the Robinsons to catch up Elaine, he had a small talk to Mrs. Robinson. Then he went out with Elaine, but he was quit roughly to her. At the end of the evening she ran crying away. Her ran after her and told her that he was sorry. Then he brought her home. In front of the house, in the car, he kissed her. She asked him to come inm, but he don’t want to. She said that they also could go to a hotel. Then they went to the Hotel Taft, where he always met with Mrs. Robinson. When every one reconigezed Benjamin, Elaine found out that he had a affair with a women. But she understood it. He asked her out again for the next day. When he was to get her, Mrs. Robinson opened the door. She went with him in the car and talked to him. She said, that he may never see Elaine again, or she would make his life a hell. He set Mrs. Robinson out of the car, and drove back to the house, and was to get Elaine. When he was in her room, he told her that he had a affair with her mother. She told him to get out of her live. Benjamin stayed for several weeks at home. See page 114: Then after he had been home for nearly a month and Christmas had passed and the new year had started he decided to marry Elaine.
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Benjamin told his parents about that he was going to marry Elaine. They were very happy. Then he went to Berkeley, where Elaine is at college and hired a room. He was trying to talk to elaine for several times, but stopped every time just before he saw her. After a time he met her at the bus station, he drove with her to a zoo, where she had a date with a other man. Carl was his name. At one morning she stood for his door. They talked, and she said to him, that he should leave, but only when he had made up where he is going. She also told him, that Mrs. Robinson told her that he raped her. He said that that isn’t true. Then she left. Several days past, when he called her. She told him again that had to leave. Two hours later he was ready with packing, and was willing to get out of town next morning. When he woked up at night, he saw that Elaine was in his room. She said that he loves him, and that he loves her. He told her that he wants to marry her, but she wasn’t sure about that. The she left.
7
Benjamin received a letter from Mrs. Robinson. She wrote that he has to get out of town immediately. Elaine visited Benajmin. She told him, that she don’t think it was a good idea to marry. After they talked a lot, she said that she wasn’t sure about this. But he was. The following noon, elaine came to him with a letter of her father. He wrote that he don’t want that she marry Benjamin at any cost. Then she left. The next morning Mr. Robinson visited Benjamin. He said that he is dissapointed, and that is to divorce from his wife, and that he never want to see Benjamin again. Then Mr. Robinson left. Benjamin went as fast as possibly to the school of Elaine, to get her, but he was too late. He searched for her several days in the town, but she was gone. Benjamin drove back his town and went to the house of the Robinsons. He went in the house, and asked them were Elaine was. They toled him to get back in a week. Then he realized, that she was going to marry someone. She was going to marry Carl in SanFranciso.
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See page 187: The next day was Saturday. Just before dawn Benjamin landed at San Franciso. He drove to the house of Carl. There he found a letter, in which was written where Carl was marrying. He flew with a airplane to Santa Barbara and there he found Elaine. He ran to Elaine and had to fight some people to get her away of the church. Then they ran into a bus and drove away.
D. Mening achteraf

I think that the book was not to difficult to read. The story wasn’t as good as I expected it, but it wasn’t bad that much.

REACTIES

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W.

er staat al gelijk in het eerste deel 'I choosed', dit moet natuurlijk I chose zijn!!!

16 jaar geleden

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S.

heej, bedankt voor je uitreksel, die had ik wel nodig.
liefs stefanie

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D.

er staan echt te veel gramatica fouten in:S beetje jammer, maar het is wel een goed verslag.

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