2. DAILY JOURNAL (20 Nov)
Discuss the results of your survey with your partner. What trends/tendencies did you discover in people’s answers to your question. Choose one question and journal about what you learned from surveying others about it.

3. Do you agree that this book is “anti-traveler?”
LITERATURE CIRCLE
In your group, share the notes you took for the 2nd part of The Beach Listen to others’ contributions & feel free to add ideas of your own
Add this question to your discussion:
“This book is anti-traveler in a lot of ways. That was absolutely my intention. The Beach was meant to be a criticism of this backpacker culture, not a celebration of it.” ~ Alex Garland
Do you agree that this book is “anti-traveler?”

4. THE BEACH: FILM CLIPS
As you watch the following clips, think about the phenomenon of ‘film tourism’.
Why do you think The Beach led to accelerated tourism to SE Asia (Thailand, esp.) while other movies set in ‘paradise’ did not have the same impact?
Mamma Mia! (Greece)
Eat, Pray, Love (Bali, Italy, India)
Midnight in Paris (Paris)
The Beach caught a zeitgeist: affluent young adults, affordable air travel, internet, ‘safe’ adventure

5. FILM AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON
The Beach had a significant impact on SE Asia (especially Thailand) through tourism (esp. low-budget backpacking)
POSITIVE: Economy, globalism
NEGATIVE: Ecology, traditional culture, local inflation, drugs, sex trade
Important drivers of ‘film tourism’:
The Lord of the Rings (New Zealand), Game of Thrones (N. Ireland), Harry Potter (Oxford, UK), Winter Sonata (겨울연가 – 남이섬), Reply 1988 (응답하라 1988 – 쌍문동)

6. FILM AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON
With your partner, discuss & list some other films (or novels) that affected (or reflected) society & had an impact beyond entertainment (and excluding tourism)
Here are some examples to get you started:

7. POLITICS & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

8. HEALTH & WELLNESS

9. ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTALISM

10. INTERIOR DESIGN: MINIMALISM

11. WRAP-UP Select a Lit Circle role from the following:
Summarizer
Discussion Director
Cartographer
Word Master
Connector
Read rest of book & journal according to your role
Next week (29 Nov): Film project storyboard (6 panels) & script due
Script by – storyboard hard copy or – can photo (A4 paper ok)
Coming soon (6 Dec) Assignment #3 (essay) due by