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1.) What in your eyes makes a life worthwile?

Worth living, I think is anything. One reason for to live is to hasve fun in the life, have a healthy family and you’re your partner.

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What does the holidays mean to Maureen?

Interview Martin and Linda

Linda: Hi Martin, it’s nice to meet you. And it’s nice of you to answer my questions

Martin: Yeah, no problem. Ask me whatever you want to.

Interview Linda – JJ

L: So you are … JJ aren´t you?

JJ: Yes that ´s me! What do you want to know?

L: For the beginning and for my readers understanding: On New Year’s Eve you were on top of Toppers House together with four other people to commit suicide?

JJ: Yap.

L: Do you want to tell us why?

Casting Sheet Jess

Casting Sheet

“Jess” from Nick Hornby’s “A long Way Down”

Appearance

• female (of course)

• pretty small

• short dark colored hair

• rather young (18-25)

• thin

Clothing

• street style

• little bit muddy, dirty

• T-shirt and jeans

Body language

• withdrawn to herself

• but also trying to get attention

Language

• slangy

• a lot of cuss-word

• shrill voice

Keira Knightly would fit in perfectly.

Dialog between Linda and JJ

Dialog between JJ and Linda

Linda: Hello Mr. …?

JJ: Call me JJ.

Linda: Alright… Lets talk about the reasons why you were at Toppers house.

JJ: Eeer… I have this disease… CCR. Really bad… There hasn’t been any sense in my life. So I decided to end this whole mess.

Linda: Oh… I am sorry for that. Never heard of this illness.

JJ: Yes… eer it’s not very popular.

Linda: So lets talk about your “holy” experience on the roof.

JJ: … Sorry? I don’t really know what you mean…

Linda: Well your mate Jess told me about an angel…

JJ: Fuck… Eerr I mean… Of course! The Angel… Well, what do you want to know?

Linda: How did he look like?

JJ: Well you know… like an angel… and stuff.

Linda: Could you discribe him a bit more detailed…

JJ: Well this guy…

Linda: So it was a male?

JJ: Yes, I guess so.

Linda: Was he hovering?

JJ: Err… like probaly one feet above the ground.

Linda: Oh really? Well, thats interesting. Your friend Jess told me that he was flying five feet high.

JJ: Well, I don’t really know, doesn’t matter anyway, does it?

Linda: No, it’s OK. Just wondering. And he looked like Jesus??

JJ: Yep, indeed. Perfect portrait of jesus with the halo and the white coat.

Linda: And you instantly felt the holy power that Jess told me about, that prevented you from jumping off the house?

JJ: Oh yeah! It was pretty amazing to be honest. Like you would be totally just forced to get off the roof, without jumping of course.

Linda: Yes, I see… on last quesition: What exactly did you feel when the angel arrived on the roof?

JJ: Err… Like JESUS! You know: Angel – Jesus… Haha

Linda: Well… OK thank you for the interview.

Interview Linda-JJ

Linda: So you are JJ? And you were up Topper’s with Jess?

JJ: I believe so!

Linda: Did you want to jump as well?

Stefan Wagner’s Radio play

Mister Klemm gave us the task of recording a radio play about a dialogue between the characters after they have descended the stairs and are going with the taxi (pages 46 to 47). Martin sits in front, the three others in the back, so the dialogue as I spoke it could not really happen. But I think that it’s good to realize the feelings of the characters after this haunting event, standing on the top of a roof to jump down, and to describe their situation.

Dialogue in the car

Radioplay A long way down!

This is a radioplay we recorded in class.

Radioplay – AC/DC

After the decision to leave ‘Topper’s House’ and to help Jess to find Chas, the guys meet a taxi driver. During the drive they talk about their problems and realize that actually the taxi driver is the person who has the most miserable problems.