Adaptation for 10/6/14

We aren't going to watch a film this week. Instead, the entire class meeting will be devoted to discussing the literary and film versions of both A Room With a View and Being There. So you should bring both texts to class with the appropriate passages marked. Again, they are:
  1) A Room with a View: Three passages that highlight characters.
  2) Being There: Two passages that say something about television.

Also, here are some Talking Points for Being There:
  1) What is the final scene of this movie about? (When Chance walks on water.)
  2) What are the novella and movie about?
  3) What are they saying about television?
  4) What are they saying about politics?
  5) What does the title mean?