Bonjour, je suis en terminale L et en littérature anglaise nous avions travaillé sur un extrait de "Long walk to freedom" de Nelson Mandela. Le professeur nous a alors demandé de préparer un oral sur cet extrait en l'insérant dans une notion et en ajoutant dans la conclusion un document personnel que nous pouvons également lier à cette notion.
J'ai choisi la notion "Characters and their transformations"
Voici mon travail, je vous invite donc à le lire et à me corriger, ce n'est pas très long étant donné que l'oral ne doit pas excéder les cinq minutes.
Merci pour votre attention!
We studied an extract from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography entitled Long Walk to Freedom, which was published in 1995. In this excerpt, Nelson Mandela relates his life from his childhood to his liberation, which is like a long walk to freedom. Mandela is an emblematic figure; we can put this document in the notion of the characters and their transformations. To what extent can we say that Nelson Mandela has changed during his long walk to freedom? First, Nelson Mandela was born free and then he began to learn that his boyhood freedom was an illusion.
In the first paragraph, the notion of freedom is linked with childhood. The expressions “free to run in the fields”, “swim in the clear stream” (lines 2 and 3) and “ride the broad blacks of slow-moving bulls” (line 4) convey a feeling of happiness and of naivety. When he was a child, Mandela was free because he was naïve and innocent. He wasn’t conscious that Black South Africans weren’t free as the white were.
When he has grow up, he realised how significant freedom was. He realized that Black South Africans were denied speech and deprived of their basic rights so he joined the ANC. Mandela wanted freedom and equality for black South Africans. He wanted to stand up for their rights. He wanted Black South Africans to be considered as fully-fledged citizens.
Thus this document is representative of the notion of the characters and their transformations because when he was a child he was free because he was innocent and naïve but when he became an adult he realized how oppressed Black South Africans were. In The long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela we learn that if childhood is liked to innocence, adulthood is linked with the loss one one’s illusions. This documents makes me think about the Britannic film “Suffragette”. The story takes places between 1912-1913 in England and is about the fight of feminist activists for the women’s vote’s right. In this film, women don’t only want to can vote, they want to be equal with men and to can have the same rights. So, women fought for the equality with the men and Mandela and also others black South Africans fought for equality with white peoples. But now, Mandela’s fight as women’s fight isn’t ended yet.
J'ai choisi la notion "Characters and their transformations"
Voici mon travail, je vous invite donc à le lire et à me corriger, ce n'est pas très long étant donné que l'oral ne doit pas excéder les cinq minutes.
Merci pour votre attention!
We studied an extract from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography entitled Long Walk to Freedom, which was published in 1995. In this excerpt, Nelson Mandela relates his life from his childhood to his liberation, which is like a long walk to freedom. Mandela is an emblematic figure; we can put this document in the notion of the characters and their transformations. To what extent can we say that Nelson Mandela has changed during his long walk to freedom? First, Nelson Mandela was born free and then he began to learn that his boyhood freedom was an illusion.
In the first paragraph, the notion of freedom is linked with childhood. The expressions “free to run in the fields”, “swim in the clear stream” (lines 2 and 3) and “ride the broad blacks of slow-moving bulls” (line 4) convey a feeling of happiness and of naivety. When he was a child, Mandela was free because he was naïve and innocent. He wasn’t conscious that Black South Africans weren’t free as the white were.
When he has grow up, he realised how significant freedom was. He realized that Black South Africans were denied speech and deprived of their basic rights so he joined the ANC. Mandela wanted freedom and equality for black South Africans. He wanted to stand up for their rights. He wanted Black South Africans to be considered as fully-fledged citizens.
Thus this document is representative of the notion of the characters and their transformations because when he was a child he was free because he was innocent and naïve but when he became an adult he realized how oppressed Black South Africans were. In The long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela we learn that if childhood is liked to innocence, adulthood is linked with the loss one one’s illusions. This documents makes me think about the Britannic film “Suffragette”. The story takes places between 1912-1913 in England and is about the fight of feminist activists for the women’s vote’s right. In this film, women don’t only want to can vote, they want to be equal with men and to can have the same rights. So, women fought for the equality with the men and Mandela and also others black South Africans fought for equality with white peoples. But now, Mandela’s fight as women’s fight isn’t ended yet.