How to Train Your Dragon is the first book in the series of 12, following Hiccup as he captures a dragon as a rite of passage and attempts to train him so that he will not be exiled from Berk, as is its tradition. The Vikings live on Berk Island. The main character, Hiccup, is the son of a Viking chief who lives on Berk Island. The dragon has constantly invaded this island, which is why battles never stop. Hiccup is hated in the village because he is weak-willed and weak-minded. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero. In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER! But wh...
Rik Mayall was an explosion of kinetic energy which manifested itself in a unique style of comedy that alienated those who feared life and delighted everyone else. Roald Dahl, meanwhile, was a writer of children's books who managed to conjure up worlds which were highly relatable yet, at the same time, coloured fantastically with surreal and grotesque narratives. And, in January 1986, these two worlds collided when Mayall delivered a one man performance of Roald Dahl's 1981 novel George's Marvellous Medicine for BBC1's Jackanory.
We are moving on now in the Gymnasium Modersmål course to writing, but that always of course includes reading. Here is a list of just a very few of the major authors and poets from the four eras of modern literature we discussed in the first three lectures. Feel free to browse through the list and choose any one you find interesting. We can do more work on them in the second half of this term. Romantic Era William Blake (Blake was the artist, writer and poet that ushered in romanticism) George Gordon, Lord Byron (a long biography and then some of his poetry) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a long biography and then some of his writing) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth John Keats Walter Scott Jane Austen (Not a Romantic writer, but a phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Austen is enigma that is actually difficult to place in literary history as she invented a genre and her work remains very popular today). ...
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