Sujet national, juin 2005, séries ES et S, LV1: Minette Walters, The Shape Of Snakes, 2000.
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I dont think a better life necessarily means earning more money. Money is a means to hâve a pleasant life, but it is far from being the essential thing in life. Looking for a better life in a faraway country is often related to escaping économie woes or religious or political persécutions. It is often related to extreme poverty, as it is the case in many developing or deprived countries for the lower social classes, mainly situated in Africa. These reasons hâve always encouraged people to settle in another country. They leave their home country in order to find better living conditions abroad. If I had to suffer from discrimination or poverty, I think I would feel a strong desire to break away from my roots and my country and I would feel like starting anew in another country. I would certainly go and settle in a land where people share the same values as mine so it would be easier to fit in. I do not hâve a précisé country in mind but it would certainly be a western country. Of course I would miss a few things, and it would be painful to give up my way of living and to abandon my family, my relatives and friends... France is the place where I have my roots. Moreover, once in a new country, I would hâve to adapt to new customs. At first, I would certainly hâve difficulties in starting from scratch. I would be torn between two cultures, two diffèrent ways of thinking.
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Sujet 8
♦ Sujet national, juin 2005, séries ES et S, LVI
Sam landed a job 1 as overseas sales director for a shipping company which took us in turn to Hong
Kong, Australia and South Africa.
They were good rimes, and I came to understand why black
sheep are so often sent abroad by their families to start again.
lt does wonders for the character to
eut the emotional ries that bind you to places and people.
We produced two sons who grew like
s saplings in the never-ending sunshine and soon towered over their parents, and I could always find
teaching jobs in whichever school was educating them.
As one always does, we thought of oursdves as immortal, so Sam's coronary at the age of fifty-two
came like a boit from the blue.
With doctors warning of another one being imminent ifhe didn't
change a lifestyle which involved too much travdling, too much entertaining of clients and too
10 little exercise, we returned to England in the summer of '99 with no employment and a couple of
boys in their late teens who had never seen their homdand.
For no particular reason except that we'd spent our honeymoon in Dorset in '76, we decided to
rent an old farmhouse near Dorchester which I found among the property ads in the Sunday Times
before we left Cape Town.
The idea was to have an extended summer holiday while we looked
1s around for somewhere more permanent to settle.
Neither of us had connections with any particular part of England.
My husband's parents were
dead and my own parents had retired to the neighbouring county of Devon and the balmy climate
of Torquay.
We enrolled the boys at college for the autumn and set out to rediscover our roots.
We'd done well during our rime abroad and there was no immediate hurry for either of us to find
20 a job.
Or so we imagined.
The reality was rather different.
England had changed [ ...
] during the rime we'd been abroad,
strikes were almost unknown, the pace of life had quickened dramatically and there was a new
widespread affluence 2 that hadn't existed in the 70s.
We couldn't bdieve how expensive everything
was, how crowded the roads were, how diflicult it was to find a parking space now that "shopping"
2S had become the Brits' favourite pastime.
Hastily the boys abandoned us for their own age group.
Garden fetes and village cricket were for
old people.
Designer clothes and techno music were the order of the day, and clubs and theme
pubs were the places to be seen, particularly those that stayed open into the early hours to show
widescreen satellite feeds of world sporting fixtures.
30 "Do you get the feding we've been left behind?" Sam asked glumly at the end of our fust week
as we sat like a couple of pensioners on the patio of our rented farmhouse, watching some horses
graze in a nearby paddock.
1.
Land a job: succeed in getting a job.
2.
Affluence: money and a good standard of living..
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