Summary: On Golden Pond was an award winning film starring Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn and Jane Fonda. In this scene, Norman goes strawberry picking, gets lost and comes home empty handed. Ethel realizes that he's having cognitive problems. You can use this to talk about how Norman feels embarrassed, angry and disappointed in himself. But you can also note how Ethel feels the loss but reassures him that he's still the same old crabby Norman and that she loves him. She uses humor and calls him her "knight in shining armor."
Page 9: Talking About Norman and Ethel
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Ethel comforts Norman
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What would you like to talk about.
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Being disoriented and lost, Finding your way home, Trying again (getting back on the horse), Being yourself, Being an "Old Poop", Being a knight in shining armor, Hating horses, Humor as coping strategy
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West Side Story was an acclaimed and popular Broadway musical about an ill-fated and impossible love between Tony and Maria. This story is about a recording of the Broadway score in 1984, 25 years later. Bernstein records the songs with a new generation of performing artists, renown singers who learned to act in the opera rather than Broadway actors who learned to sing in the theater. It's a remarkable documentary that captures the dynamic between the maestro and these superstars.
Perhaps because Bernstein is conducting his own piece as an old man, music that he composed many years earlier as a much younger man, you can talk about aging in this context. What does it mean to return to a work from your youth?
