Monday, June 17th

Monday, June 17th (the seventeenth)

Extract three: Surdas

Jamal and Salim are orphans and homeless, they sleep in the slums. One day, a man traps/lures them with a coke and takes them to an « orphanage ».

Many children are blind and crippled because the men hurt them so they inspire pity and thus earn more money when they beg in the streets.

One night, Salim witnesses a dramatic incident : the boy who sang very well was blinded so that people would think he was the reincarnation of Surdas, the blind poet of the fifteenth century.

Extract4 : Salim knew about Benjamin Franklin because one day he met/ran into his blind friend and he felt so guilty and shameful that he gave him his $100 bill. He had to describe the dollar bill for his friend.

For Thursday 20/06 : apprendre la leçon.