How to Be Good
Virtue is its own reward – that warm feeling of having done the right thing! But what if you are set on that path against your will? Exactly who gains the reward then – and who pays the price? The novel How to Be Good by British novelist Nick Hornby investigates just such questions. In the excerpt we look through the eyes of a long-suffering wife, whose husband has found the path of virtue and happiness and is herding his family down it.
Read more in Access to English: Social Studies, pp. 265-269. Then do the tasks in the textbook and on this website.
Extra Tasks
Going Further
Web resources
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Arguments against charity (BBC - Ethics)
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A duty to give (BBC - Ethics)
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Nick Hornby - official website
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