Fiche de révision : Love and Friendship

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Joey and Chandler’s Bromance
2. Health Benefits of Loving Relationships
3. Love at First Sight
4. The Great Depression and Migration
5. George and Lennie’s Friendship

📖 1. Joey and Chandler’s Bromance

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Bromance : A strong relationship between two men with no sexual attraction.

★ À maîtriser

• In the scene from Friends, Joey and Chandler miss each other but do not dare to say so, and Chandler is angry because he cannot accept being replaced by Eddie.

Compléments

• The scene presents Joey and Chandler’s quarrel like an argument between lovers, making it funny.

💡 Astuce mémo

BFFs, not lovers: deep affection without sexual attraction.

📖 2. Health Benefits of Loving Relationships

★ À maîtriser

• The article attributes to Kirsty Parker Jones the claim that people in loving or philia-based relationships have fewer doctor visits, shorter hospital visits, less pain, and more positive emotions. - Seven Reasons Why Loving Relationships Are Good For You, Feb 14, 2023

• The article lists seven health benefits of loving relationships: (University of Utah Health, Feb 14, 2023) :

  • living longer
  • recovering more quickly
  • having lower blood pressure
  • bolstering the immune system
  • being more physically fit
  • enjoying good heart health
  • feeling less pain

Compléments

• The article says supportive relationships can help recovery by lowering stress hormones such as cortisol. - Benjamin A. Steinberg, Seven Reasons Why Loving Relationships Are Good For You, Feb 14, 2023

• According to the article, loving feelings release these substances: (University of Utah Health, Feb 14, 2023) :

  • dopamine
  • adrenaline
  • norepinephrine

• The article reports that pictures of a romantic partner reduced experimentally induced pain, whereas random pictures of attractive people did not reduce the subjects’ reaction. - University of Utah Health, Seven Reasons Why Loving Relationships Are Good For You, Feb 14, 2023

📖 3. Love at First Sight

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Internal focalisation : Jeffrey Archer, “Love at first sight,” To Cut A Long Story Short, 2010 - Gives the reader access to Andrew’s thoughts.

★ À maîtriser

• In Jeffrey Archer’s “Love at First Sight,” Andrew and Claire see each other on opposite platforms at a train station at 5:37. - “Love at first sight,” To Cut A Long Story Short, 2010

• Andrew is a banker going to a job interview with Mr Bloom, but he forgets the interview when he sees Claire. - Jeffrey Archer, “Love at first sight,” To Cut A Long Story Short, 2010

• Claire blushes and lowers her head after Andrew smiles at her, then returns his smile after both trains have left. - Jeffrey Archer, “Love at first sight,” To Cut A Long Story Short, 2010

Compléments

• Andrew describes Claire as about five foot eight, slim and graceful, with an oval face, olive skin, curly black hair, and a beige-coloured raincoat. - Jeffrey Archer, “Love at first sight,” To Cut A Long Story Short, 2010

• The narrator says the story was told at Andrew and Claire’s tenth wedding anniversary, connecting the fictional story to reality. - Jeffrey Archer, “Love at first sight,” To Cut A Long Story Short, 2010

💡 Astuce mémo

A glance, a smile, a returned smile.

📖 4. The Great Depression and Migration

★ À maîtriser

• The Great Depression began in 1929 after the Wall Street stock-market crash.

• At its worst, the Great Depression left 20% of the country’s workers unemployed, and it continued until World War Two.

• Drought in the Mid-West caused the Dust Bowl, a series of dust storms that destroyed crops and left many farmers unable to grow food.

• Millions of people abandoned farms and travelled west or north to find work; many farming families moved to California and were called migrant workers.

• In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President and introduced the New Deal, which funded infrastructure projects and provided financial aid to citizens and struggling businesses.

Compléments

• Dorothea Lange photographed a migrant family in a California automobile camp in 1936, showing the poverty of families during the Great Depression. - Migratory Family in automobile camp, California

💡 Astuce mémo

Drought → Dust Bowl → migration west.

📖 5. George and Lennie’s Friendship

★ À maîtriser

• John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men was published in 1937 and is set in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

• George and Lennie are migrant workers travelling from ranch to ranch, with no family, home, or long-term plans. - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

• George and Lennie dream of owning their own farm and keeping rabbits. - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

• Lennie asks George to tell him the familiar story about the rabbits because it comforts him, and George agrees because he cares about Lennie. - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

📌 George acts like a father to Lennie, while Lennie is George’s companion; their shared dream and difficult life strengthen their bond. - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

Compléments

• The novel uses working-class speech, including Lennie’s accent, to make the characters’ world more accessible and encourage readers to empathize with them. - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

💡 Astuce mémo

A bedtime story about rabbits comforts Lennie and binds him to George.