A Summer’s Reading By: Bernard Malamud

Pre Reading Activity

• Write a letter from George to Mr. Cattanzara ten years after the story ends.

Dear Wilson Cattanzara,

How are you? I hope your’e fine.

I’m here in the city, I arrived a week ago, I was traveling abroad.

I visited more than 10 amazing places on the world, and I collected

as usual the most rarely books on the world, I would like to share you these books.

I bought them from auction, special auctions for books.

I will put them in my museum for special books, here in New York.

Don’t be late, there are amazing things to talk about. Bye for now

Sincerly,

George

• Imagine that you are George at the end of the story. Write a summary of the first that you chose to read.explain why you chose it.

The Truth

It was my first book, I choosed this book by it’s title…” The Truth”.

Everyone need to be honest and to use only truth. I lied and it was like a spot of olive oil wich spread more and more.

At certain point I decided to stop everything and to act only honestly. This book was talking about people like me, people who ignore the truth, eventhough they know the sequances of lying.

Every word in this book was like sticking a knife on my chest.

Truth must be our best companion, and only by it you can climb the mountain peak of life.

On this book David young man decided to tell everyone that he’s studying to be a doctor, he left everything and traveled

for studying, he went to America, there he discoverd that the busniess world is the best choise and the people in his town started to call him the doctor each time he visited his parents.

He could’nt tell anyone the truth, and the first two years passed and his father died suddenly by a heart attack, and when he arrived his house his mother cried, and told him how great was if your father stay to share our dream of looking at you as a successful doctor.

At that moment he decided to start again, and by six years he turned to be a famous, respectable doctor in his town.

Reading those 100 books was exactly like succeding on the medicine test for that young man in the story ” The Truth”.

Everything in this story was talking about me, but with different characters and different place.