"In a way he was like the country he lived in; everything came too easily to him."
This was the first line of the character Hubble Gardner's book in the movie 'The Way We Were." (It's a great movie. Watch it if you have the time.)
The book was called "A Country Made of Ice-cream" but we never actually get to know what the book was about in the movie. We can only see the life two people from different social classes led during a politically polarised era and the clash of two utterly opposite outlooks towards life.
I took this paragraph off a random blog on the net:
"But it’s Hubbell’s book title that hooks us into his world. He imagines his one percent world as a privileged confection – cold, rich, sweet and creamy, with no nutritional value. It holds its form for a short while before it begins to get soft. It’s delicious for the first few scoops, then sugary and sickening after that."
This was the first line of the character Hubble Gardner's book in the movie 'The Way We Were." (It's a great movie. Watch it if you have the time.)
The book was called "A Country Made of Ice-cream" but we never actually get to know what the book was about in the movie. We can only see the life two people from different social classes led during a politically polarised era and the clash of two utterly opposite outlooks towards life.
I took this paragraph off a random blog on the net:
"But it’s Hubbell’s book title that hooks us into his world. He imagines his one percent world as a privileged confection – cold, rich, sweet and creamy, with no nutritional value. It holds its form for a short while before it begins to get soft. It’s delicious for the first few scoops, then sugary and sickening after that."
you can find the blog here.
But the task is as simple, or as complicated, as you want it. Write a short piece (fiction, poetry, argument wrapped in metaphor - anything goes.) with the title "A Country Made of Ice-cream". The choice of content/genre is up to you.