Daddy Long Legs
PLOT
Daddy long legs is a story of a young girl, Jerusha Abbott and her letters to her benefactor whom she has never seen. The story proceeds through her college years. Jerusha Abbott was brought up at an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity. They were badly fed and had to wear other people's discarded clothes. At the age of 18, Jerusha has finished her education and is still working in the dormitories at the orphanage where she was brought up.
When the asylum's trustees make their monthly visit, the Headmistress informs Jerusha that a rich man has offered to be her benefactor for her college studies. He has spoken to her former teachers and knows that she is an excellent writer. He will pay her tuition and also give her a generous monthly allowance. In return, he asks Jerusha to write a letter to him every month without fail describing what is going on in her life but not to expect any replies from him.
Jerusha has seen him from the back and knows that he has long legs and so she adoringly calls him "Daddy Long Legs". She shares a love-hate-anger-gratitude relationship with him. She illustrates her letters with child-like drawings. Basically, this is a story of Jerusha's personal and educational growth.
Finally, at the end of the story, the identity of Daddy-Long-Legs is revealed and voila, is Jerusha elated to find out who it is-The love of her life!
Time of story
1900-1920's in America
Casting
Q. Who should we cast as the characters to make a film of Daddy long legs?
Daddy long legs, Jervis Pendleton -
Judy -
Sally -
Jimmy, Sally’s brother -
Julia, Jervis’s niece -
Letters
Q. Do you like to write letters or get letters?
Q. What do you think about Judy’s drawings in the letter? Did you like it?
Q. Why does Judy call her benefactor “Daddy long legs?”
Q. Is it a good idea to call her benefactor by the nickname?
Q. Do you have any nickname? Who do you call as a nickname?
Q. Do you like the nick name “Daddy long legs?
Cf. Meaning of daddy-long-legs answered by Oxford Dictionaries
(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/is-a-daddy-long-legs-a-spider)
There isn’t a simple answer to this question, because it all depends on which variety of world English you speak. There are three completely different creatures which go by the name of daddy-long-legs: in British English, daddy-long-legs is another word for a crane fly, but in American English, it’s an alternative name for a harvestman. If you speak Australian English, then daddy-long-legs is a type of spider. This spider is also known as daddy long-legs in North America and elsewhere.
What do they have in common? All three are arthropods and as their name suggests, they have extremely long legs in relation to their bodies. Here’s a brief description of each one.
* arthropods 절지동물
Orphanage
Q. What kind of place is the John Grier Home like? How does Judy feel about this?
Q. If you were living there, what would you feel?
Q. If you are rich enough, would you adopt a baby?
Q. If you are privileged, would you support somebody poor financially?
Q. Normally, Korean people are unwilling to adopt a baby. What do you think the reason is?
Introduction of the author
Alice Jane Chandler Webster, whose pen name is Jean, was born in New York in 1876 and died of childbirth fever at the age of 40 in 1916. Her mother was niece of Mark Twain, and her father ran a publishing business. Her education at schools inspired her to write fictional novels.
She was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy. Her most well-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
* protagonists: main character
Bibliography
When Patty Went to College (1903), Wheat Princess (1905), Jerry Junior (1907),
The Four Pools Mystery (1908), Much Ado About Peter (1909), Just Patty (1911),
Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), Dear Enemy (1915)
Q. Have you ever read any other book of Jean Webster? What was is? How did you like it?
Q. Do you feel like to read other books of Jean Webster?
Theme of the book
The themes of this book reflect upon Webster's interests in social work and women's suffrage, education. Some scholars have criticized Daddy Long Legs as being an "anti-feminist fairy tale", while others have argued that Judy shows growing independence, including increasing disobedience to her benefactor and his wishes, and indeed succeeds in educating Daddy Long Legs that he cannot control her, and that his socialism needs to move from the academic into real life. (form Wikipedia)
* suffrage 투표권
Q. What do you think that theme of Daddy long legs is? Do you agree with the above explanation?
Judy
Q. What did you like about the character of Judy in the story?
Q. Would you like Judy to be your roommate or classmate in college?
Q. Do you think that Judy is a good writer?
Q. Despite a 14-year age difference, Judy and Jervis get married. If you were Judy, how big age difference could you overcome? Or guess your daughter wants to marry with a guy who is really older than your daughter.
Q. how big age difference would be good to have a relationship or to get married?
Q. Jimmy, Sally’s brother, went to Princeton college and was very fond of Judy. Who would like to marry with between Jervis and Jimmy?
Q. Judy refused Jervis’s proposal as he was rich and she hadn't revealed her past to him. After refusing Jervis Pendleton, Judy was very unhappy. And then she wrote a letter to confess that she actually loves Daddy long legs. What do you think about her confession?
Q. When Judy realizes that Daddy Long Legs and Master Jervie are the same person, she is extremely happy. Do you think Judy really had no idea who Daddy long legs was?
Q, What if Judy already knew who Daddy long legs was and she pretended to be innocent?
Daddy long legs , Jervis Pendleton
Q. If you were Jervis, would you order Judy to write letters to him? What would you look forward to Judy?
Q. why do you think that Daddy long legs refuses to let Judy take the scholarship so that she can pay for her own tuition in the 3rd year of college?
Q. What kind of feeling did Master Jervie feel when Judy refused his proposal for marrying her?
Q. When Judy wrote to Daddy-Long-Legs expressing her feelings towards Master Jervie, Daddy Long Legs writes to her and tells her that he wants to meet her.
Q. Do you think they will live happily ever after marriage?
Review
Q. How many points would you give for the book? Please write down the point you would give, 1 to 10.
Q. What did you liked and dislike about the book? Would you recommend this book? If so, to whom would you recommend it?
Q. What do you think the most important, impressive or favorite part of the story?
Q. If you have any part you didn’t like, tell me what you didn’t like about the story and what you want to change.
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