Sonntag, 16. März 2008

New York

New York

Here is a map of New York where the book "Twelve", of Nick McDonell, plays.The map shows the most important places and districts which are mentioned in the book.

Mittwoch, 12. März 2008

Comparing Mainhatten and Manhatten

Task 3:

Compare "Mainhatten" with the Financial District of Manhatten (Differences, Similarities) and write a text about it.

Mainhatten and Manhatten

I have never heard the name "Mainhatten" up to now but I think there are many
similarities between our Mainhatten and the Manhatten in the Financial District in New York. Mainhatten is something like our Financial District in germany because Frankfurt in our Mainhatten is also called "City of Banks". We´ve got al lot of banks like the City bank or the European Central Bank. Mainhatten is not so big as the Manhattan in New York but both of them have the same task. Mainhattan has also a sculpture, a bear and and bull too, it stands near the stock exchange. At all Mainhatten and Mannhatten are nearly the same with the same tasks and important things but it gives a few differences between them.

Mainhatten

Task 2:
Referring to the secound task: What is "Mainhatten"? Search for interesting facts and details on the internet. (take notes)

Mainhatten:

-Mainhatten is our Financial District here in germany
-it has a stock market
-Mainhatten has a wonderfull skyline
-there is the European Central Bank in Mainhatten
-in Frankfurt there is the Stock Exchange
-many big banks are present there for example the city bank, deutsche Börse and so on...

Financial District

Task 1:
Write down interesting facts and details of the Financial District -> have a look at the sources as well and find more information on the internet (make notes)

Financial District:
-the Financial District is also called FIDL
-It comprises the offices and headquarter of many of the city´s major financial institutions
-it includes the New York Eschange and the amercian Stockexchange
-as a district it excludes the Battery Park and the Batterie Park City
-the heart of the Financial District is the Broad Street and the Wall Street

Wall Street:

-One of the most important streets in New York is the Wall Street
-The Wall Street is a city street in lower Manhatten
-It runs east from Broadway downhill to South Street on the East River through the center of Financial Distrikt
-the Wall Street was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange
-become his name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood

Stock Exchange:

-the New York Stock Exchange is also called the Big Board
-it is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world by dollar volume
-2,764 listed securities are there and it is the secound most securities of all stock exchanges.

The Charging Bull:

-the Charging Bull is sometimes called the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull
-the bull is a 3,200 kg bronze sculpture by Artino Di Modica
-it sits in Bowling Green park near to the Wall Street
-the sculpture is a bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity

Dienstag, 11. März 2008

Dialogue

Dialog between Chris and Claude after the Party

Chris: Morning Claude.
Claude: ...morning....
Chris: Do you want something to eat?
Claude: mhhh what do we have?
Chris: Not many the freezer is empty and we have no bread...
Claude: Okay I order us a pizza it´s already 12 o´clock

Chris: Yes that sounds good.... but tell me what did you do last night? You weren´t present at may party.
Claude: Ohhh yes of course I was out with Tobias in Chinatown so I had no time to come.
Chris: So tell me what have you done in Chinatown
Claude: It´s not important for you, it´s already enough that you know where I was....
Chris: Ohh come on, I´m your brother I wont tell it mum an dad.
Claude: Don´t you hear what I say?
Chris: okay okay I hear it, don´t be upset!
Claude: I go up to my room, call me when the pizza-guy brings the pizza...
Chris: Okay go away....

Mindmap


Chapter 41

The Past:

During the Christmas break White Mike and Alice, the girl whom he had run into, were walking down the beach in East Hampton and she told him a bit of her life.
When it become dark and cold she was going crazy and took all of her chlothes and ran into the ocean and coming out laughing and crying.

Chapter 40

The Dream

White Mike fell asleep with his book "The Plague" what he bought today on his chest and the light was still turn on. He dreams that he is on a high swanking skyscraper and it is very stormy and a dark night and then at last he falls down the skyscraper and lands on the roof of a car but he dosen´t wake up.

Montag, 3. März 2008

Chapter 39

A new weapon

After the cokctail party Claude wants to go out and so he calls his freind Tobias to go out.
They both go to Chinatown and when Claude goes to the shop where he bought the weapons last night Tobias goes away. In the store the old wrinkled man close the door and takes out a specail weapon for Claude, an uzi.

Chapter 38

Summer Memory

Because of a kid White Mike sells to he remind of the summer when he worked at a camp on the eastern tip of Long Island and the girl Alice he knows from the camp. After he comes out of his memory he buys a book in Barnes & Nobles about the Plague and later he reads in the new book of the death of the rats.

Chapter 37

Jessica

By midnight Jessica has done all the Twelve she saves for New Year´s Eve . When she wokes up her sheets are damp with sweat.

Chater 36

Cocktail Party

Before Chris and his brother Claude go to the cocktail party they smoke a joint together what they normaly not do. At the Party of Auntie on the Upper Wets Side they talk with a friend of their mother, called Marcelle, about musik.

Chapter 35

White Mike´s thoughts

The Past:

He is a thinker, that is what White Mike´s teacher said to him. When his mother´s coffin being lowered into the ground he thought what could happen when your life is over and you will die.

Sonntag, 2. März 2008

Chapter 34

The bells

Chris is watching TV when the delivery guys bring ten metall boxes. Chris opens the boxes and find bells inside and at the bells are names engraved. Then he rings the bells against each other for a few minutes until his arms were tired and then he sits in front of the television to kill the hours before he goes on a cocktail party.

Chapter 33

The handsome

Everyone said that White Mike looks handsome but he didn´t care. That his mother wore a wig made him angry because a wig is not real and he wanted real.

Chapter 32

Hunter´s alibi

The forestis tests have indentified the blood on Hunter´s clothings. It´s Nana´s.
In the holding cell Hunter thinks of an alibi he had and he remembers one man at the night who wants to have two dollars from him.

Chapter 31

Together with Molly

Tobias is talking with Molly. They talk about how hard it is to work as a model and then Tobias calls her in, into Claude´s house. Tobias and Molly going to see his piranhas because Molly says to him that she likes animals but this was a lie of her. He shows her a cool thing. He throws a cold chicken from the freezer into the aquarium with the piranhas and they eat the chicken complete in three secounds. Then she has to leave and Tobias invites her to come to open house in two days for new year´s eve and Sara says that she will com.

Chapter 29-30

Tobias the model

It is saturday and Tobias has a meeting with his model agency. He loves to be a model and after college he want´s to be a full time model and he cares all the fotos of himself in his leather-bound scrapbook. When his meeting was over he went out of the shooting and there was a beautiful girl.
The girl is called Molly she is a beautiful girl who´s is sixteen and also a model like Tobias.

Chapter 27-28

Charlie

White Mike thinks about his cousin Charlie and what he has done for a trip with his friends. He hadn´t enough money for the trip so he stole her mothers jewelry and sell it in a shop called Angela´s Pawn a shop with guns, so he also bought a gun there fore the money. When his mother realized that she called the insurance company but Charlie told his mother the story and after all he come in a boot camp in Montana for bad rich kids.

Chapter 23-26

The deal

After her first expirence of the drug called "Twelve", Jessica want some more of this drug so she called White Mike to make a deal with her. Down Laxington toward Ninety-first Street Jessica meets White Mike and his partner Lionel a creeply dude with blood shot eyes. Jessica bought five Baggies for one thausand dollar.


The Past:
Some night in the past White Mike wakes up and poured himself a champagne flute of undiluted chanberry juice, this was his mother´s avorite drink. His mother said to Mike that he should always live the best life he can.

After Jessica hurys away and listen to a purple Discman, White Mike tells Lionel to tell his cousin Charlie that he is looking for him. Charlie is White Mikes cousin he lives for the most time in his life with nannies, he just use the house of his parents to make partys. Charlie isn´t a good student and after he changes school there was a distant between White Mike and him.

Chapter 22

A new Party

After Sara has left Lexon Hill she phones Chris and asks him if she can come to him.
When Sara was in Chris house she asks him to make a new party today, a real party where everybody can come. Sara wants the party so she trading on her womanly wile and slips her tongue in Chris´s mouth so Chris agrees with the Party.

The Past:
Sara´s grandmother went to ab big party where eight boys where arrested after the party. Nine month later after the party Sara´s mother was born.

Chapter 21

Beginning

White Mike and his father moved right after his mother died of breast cancer three years ago. White Mike has a big and empty room at the new arpartment and everything in his room is stacked haphazardly.

Dienstag, 26. Februar 2008

Chapter 20

At the hospital

After his accident on the ice, Andrew arives with an ambulance to the Lexon Hill Hospital and he has to stay for six hours. His room neighbour was Sean, who is at the hospital because of an car accident, a very high kid and the boyfriend of Sara. Sara comes to visit his boyfreind and she makes Andrew horny.

Chapter 18-19

The ice-skating accident

Jessica get´s up at eleven o´clock in the morning and she doesn´t remember at all that happend last night. Now she has a date with her three best girlfriends, which agree with her in everything. But when they four where ice-skating it comes to an acident, Jessica drive into a boy, named Andrew, lay down at the ice and she hits him at his head. Andrew´s father come to Hunter when he calls him but Andrew couldn´t come because he was ice-skating. After the accident with Andrew on the ice, Jessica and her friends go to have a hot chocolate together. Then she calls Chris to thank´s him for what he has done the last night for her. She want´s more of them what she had last night and asks him for White Mikes number to get more of the coke that is just called Twelve.

Chapter 17

Beatiful childhood

When White Mike, Hunter, Warren and his cousin where all young kids they went to the Central Park Zoo with Warrens nanny named Dorine. It was alwasy in adventure and the kids bought every week popguns in the Zoo that was there most important ritual. Years later when he walks threw the Park he thinks of what happend with Dorine and started to imagine what he would say if he speaks with her.

Part 2 Chapter 16

Hunter in arrest

A police detectiv is vestigating the double murder at the Jefferson Houses housing project. In the gym he asks Arturo to telll him about when he saw Nana at last, but Aturo tells some lies about Hunter and told all the story of the fight in a different way. The detectives catch Hunter and bring him to questionating to the police and Hunter tries to phone Andrews that his father maybe can help him.

Chapter 15


The rapist

The Past:
When White Mike was in the tenth-grade year there was a rapist at large, the Upper East Side Rapist. He walked home with a girl named Magan who was in his ethics class and talk with her about the rapist and what happend.

Montag, 25. Februar 2008

Chapter 14

Jessica passed out

Chris likes to look at Jessica when he came to the bathroom late at night and saw her liing in the bathroom passed out. He likes it to stare at her because he gets never a chance to look at a live girl like this.

Chapter 13

White Mikes apartment

White Mike lives in his apartment, which is big and empty, with his father whom he never sees. He enjoys reading or watching Tv and in his room he has weed on his desk and he organizes it really good because it is the most important thing he does.

Chapter 11-12

Chris older brother Claude

Sara stay only an hour at Chris´s party and she doesn´t want to drink anything or to smoke a joint all that she want is to go home. She asks Chris where his brother Claude is.
Chris´s brother Claude and his friend Tobias walking down the Malberry Street. They wear dark parkas from North Face. Claude is six feet and 2 inches tall boy who is really strong and much stronger than his young brother, he use very much cocaine and he isn´t really good at school or in sport. Tobias works in a part time job as a model and he is very pretty. They are walking through Slantytown, so tehy call Chinatown in their one language. In a few shops with weapons they buy a lot of weapons like nunchakus, throwing stars, sharp, bright, a double bladed sword, brass nuckles, two sais and a knife in different shops.The party was over as chris come home from chinatown . When he comes home he puts all his new weapons into the wardrobe and his clothes he puts under his bed.

Chapter 10

Jessica

Jessica is a real pretty girl she has got cramy skin, brown hairs and big brown eyas. She is not fat and not skinny. Tonight she is at Chris´s party at the bathroom to do some coke before her boy comes back. It´s not cocaine it´s something called "Number Twelve". After she takes it she remembers that she read about Abraham Lincoln and then everything changes, and she does another hit and going crazy and lay down at the ground and giggles

The past:White Mike stood in the head of the class and make one of his excellent reports, with a lot of jokes, about Abraham Lincoln.

Chapter 9

Chris

Chris is seventeen and a half years old and has dark blond hairs and blue eyes. Chris waits for the two girls in front of the door. He make partys to took up with a girl an looking for the right girl. The girls go threw the house and look what´s going on and there is Jessica in one room making out with a boy that no one knows there.

Chapter 7-8

The Party

Chris a other guy made a party in Ninetieth Street Madison and Sara Ludlow and her best girlfriend will will be there tonight. Sara Ludlow is the hottest girl at her school and she is wearing good and sexy clothes. Everyone like her and at charts she is everytime the first. Before they go to the partySara and her girlfreind talking at home about who is present at the party.

White Mike stays near the Party watch the people coming. He doesn´t want to go to the Party because it´s Chris´s house and Chris´s party, he only sell Chris the drugs for the guests. After the two girls, Sara and her girlfriend, had come to the party he walks cross the Fith Avenue and turns downtown and he thinks about how rich everyone is.

Chapter 6

Nana

When Nana walks home covered with blood he saw a drugdeal near the appartment in third avenue were he lives. He watched the escalate deal and how ssomeone shit the other the otherone down after a trouble, Nana want´s to run away but the man with the gun in his hands saw him and Nana had no chance against him so he loose and lay down at the ground beside the otherone, who was a young kid. And then the man shot Nana down, too.

Chapter 5

Hunter

After the talk with White Mike , Hunter walks home with his headfones on and listen soft music from James Taylor. When he comes home his father sits in front of the TV and dóesn´t react to the blood on Hunter´s shirt. His mother is in Europe at the moment so noeone cares about Hunter and his problems.

Chapter 4

The Plague

The Past:
In the past when White Mike has seen a young boy in Kast Avenue throwing a lit cigarrette into a garbage and the garbage can starts burning he think anout the Plague and what happend when the city shut down by the Plague.

Chapter 3

What happend?

As White Mike comes in the gym after the fight between Hunter and Nana he saw all the blood on the floor and wants to know what had happend and Hunter told him the story.In the Mc Donalds they talk together about the colege and their future, because they havn´t seen each other for for a long time. White MIke want the "OLd times" again and not got to college.

Chapter 2

At the Rec

It is teen night twenty blocks uptown at the Rec. All the kids who wants to play basketball are there, also Hunter McCulloch, the best freind of White Mike, a six feet tall boy with a lot of muscles. After a knock in the Basketball play Nana, one of the kids, gets in trouble with Hunter. Nana is pissed of and get´s up in Hunter´s face, then it comes to a fight between them and the fight went real.Blood smears all over the two of them as they thud to the ground when the fight was over. Aturo a young kid want´s to fight on and call Hunter a pussy so Hunter trows a ball on his head and then Nana walks out of the rec covered with blood.

Chapter 1

The main character

White Mike is a white skinned and really pale boy who lives in Newe York. He is out of school and taking a year off before college because he watched the film "American Beauty" which is about a young boy who is selling drugs an becoms rich. White Mike is a clean boy he never take drugs or drink alcohol. Two days after Christmas when the kids have money to blow he is waiting in Harlem to sell his drugs to the kids.

The Past:His career of dealing drugs he started with an experiment he tried to sta as long as possoble without sleeping. Hunter his best freindsaw him after three days as he runs after the kids, howling and barking, who called him "Madman".

In the Park Avenue he remembers one night when his mother was still alive what she told him about a Butterfly and the "chaos Theory".