1.Look at the front cover and observe it. How do you relate the title to the picture?
I believe that in this photo there are a boy and a girl that are fallen in love but that sleep like of two classes social different.
This is the one that I can see because the image is very small.
2.Most of the story takes place in Tredonald, Wales. Find information about this coal mining village.
With the Industrial Revolution ( 17th and 18th c ) , coal mining, a tiny industry in the 15th century, became a national and international industry. Thus, the 19th century was a century of massive expansion for the coal industry in Wales. But the end of the 20th century brought almost universe closure. Find information about 1984 miners' strike
The strike the house of about the industrial botanical coal. They believed that they had the political and ideological victory.
When the strike is finished all workers work again so that you use, and this they say that it means a great satisfaction on the part of the government.
3.Chapter 1: Two young lives
-" Life was not easy for the Thomas family." Why ? ( 3 lines )
- Richard Thomas had been killed while fighting in North Africa in 1943. Which war was it ?
- In chapter 1 we know that Megan and Huw are good friends. Describe the moment
- Because his mother was dead, her father was an alcoholic and her brother diedin a war. And he and her another brother had to work in|on a mine because her father did not make anything.
-The world war II
-Huw went to the shop of Megan and explained everything the that happened, but already knew all thevillage it to her.
4. Chapter 2 : The friendship continues
-In this chapter Megan and Huw take a decision about their relationship. Explain it. Why do they take it?
They take this decision because they love themselves and in other times they had had a relationship.
5. Chapter 3: Romance grows
-"This Saturday was going to be a night to remember." ( page 15 ) Why?
Because they can walk for the street and doesn't matter them that the other one people to them they see.
6. Chapter 4: Death at the mine / Leaving Tredonald
-After the first four chapters, how would you define the relationship between Huw and his brother?
They have a good relation. But this relationespecially is due to their being the only family that they have to them becauseher father is an alcoholic.
7. Chapter 6: A surprise find
-Megan finds the letters Huw had sent her 50 years before, in 1946 and 1947. Imagine Meg's father was still alive and that you are Meg. What would you tell him?
In the first letter Meg asks Huw: " Do you think he wanted me to find them when it was to late?". What dou you think?
I believe that he would tell them that if they really love themselves she can be calm or he would get very angry.
8. Chapter 7: Time to decide
-Before leaving Tredonald, Huw told Megan : "in a year ...I'll come back here and we'll get married..." ( pag.23 ); but things turned out to be completely different. Why?
Because Hug wrote letters to Megan. Her he sisn't answer any. Huw cross that she doesn't want to know nothing of him and decided to come back.