Four weddings and a funeral

1. Can you summarize the book in two minutes?

The book is about the adventures of a group of friends. The character of, a single, elegant young man, who is in love with Carrie, an attractive American, whom Charles repeatedly meets at weddings and at a funeral. There are four weddings and one funeral.

The first wedding is that of Angus and Laura. At this wedding, Charles meets Carrie for the first time and spends the night with her, but he regards it as a one-night stand. She then goes back home to America, observing that they may have missed an opportunity.

The second wedding is that of Bernard and Lydia, a couple who got together at the previous wedding. The reception is not an enjoyable one for Charles. First, he meets Carrie, who introduces Charles to her fiancé, Sir Hamish Banks, a wealthy politician from Scotland. Charles and Carrie end up spending the night together again.

Charles receives an invitation to Carrie's wedding in Scotland; while shopping for a present he accidentally bumps into her in a shop and ends up helping choose her wedding dress.

He later tries to confess his love to her and hints that if her marriage is unsuccessful, he would like to have a relationship with her. However, he says it rather lamely, obviously too late.

The third wedding is that of Carrie and Hamish at a Scottish castle. Charles attends, depressed at the prospect of Carrie marrying Hamish. Charles watches Carrie and Hamish dance as husband and wife, he reveals his feelings about Carrie to his friend Fiona, who confesses that she has always loved Charles since they first met years ago.

Charles is surprised, but does not refuse her love. At the wedding Matthew's lover, Gareth, dies suddenly of a heart attack.

The funeral is that of Gareth.

The fourth wedding is that of Charles, who has decided to marry Henrietta out of desperation. However, moments before the ceremony, Carrie arrives at the church and reveals to Charles that she and Hamish are no longer together. Charles has a crisis of confidence, which he reveals to his deaf brother David .

At the altar, when the vicar asks if anyone knows a reason why the couple should not marry, David signals to Charles in sign language not to make the mistake of marrying somebody he doesn't love. Charles says no. Henrietta punches Charles and the wedding is stopped.

In the end, Carrie visits Charles. Charles makes a proposal of life-long-commitment out of wedlock to Carrie and responds by saying 'I do'.

2. Is there a mystery sentence or a turning point in the story?

Yes, in the fourth wedding between Charles and Henrietta, Charles’brother, David says with sign language that Charles translate in a loud voice: I suspect that the groom is having doubts.

3. When and where does the story take place?

In Scotland in nineties.

4. Who are the main characters in the story? What’s their role?

The role of Charles, is an attractive unmarried man who has had a lot of different Girlfriends. But he really loves Carrie.

And the role of Carrie is a girl that live the life because She has had a lot of boyfriends, when she was young and now she married to Hamish, and then separated and in the end she accepts a life-long-commitment with Charles.

5. Choose one character (main or secondary) and describe him/her.

Charles is a good looking, unmarried man, who always disheveled, badly dressed and with in a hurry because he always arrives late, one example of being badly dressed is the day of the wedding, without a tie and his trousers zip undone. He is also very absent-minded, because at the first wedding, he left the ring at home.

6. Can you identify with any character? Why?

Yes, with the the main charater Charles, because I am very ansent-minded, because I never remember where my things are or where I have left my books, for example this week I lost my notebook.

7. Choose your favourite moment in the story

At the second wedding, when to the priest speaks the bride and groom to repeat the wodrs after him. I Bernard Delaney – says Father Gerald “Do take you, Lydia Jane Hibbot, to be my awful wedded wife”. I can not imagine this situation because it would be very funny that a priest said the wrong words at the wedding.

8. Which new key words have you learnt to understand the story?

Priest, viciar

Ducface

Bride

Bridesmaid

Fiancè

9. Provide an alternative ending.

The other ending would be that Charles got married to Henrietta, but if you change the ending of the book it will be very bad, because the mains characters don’t get married.

10. Would you recommend this book? Why?

Yes, because this book is very funny, it is easy to read, it isn’t too long and to end it is very entertaining because you never know what is going to happen.