Anthony Obando
Mrs Santos
English II

2 March 2014

                   

                

   My name is Anthony Obando and  I am a sophomore at Bloomfield High school. I am 16 years old and I'm in mrs santos and mrs Pettigrew 5th period, I enjoy being in our 5th period class becasue its funny and keeps me entertained. I am athletic and funny. I love to play soccer and basketball. I also like to spend time with my family and my friends. The thing I enjoyed most this year was reading "Through The Tunnel"


                Henrik Ibsen

         
              Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway.  In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany, where he wrote one of his most famous works: the play A Dolls house  . In 1890, he wrote Hedda Gabler, creating one of theater's most notorious characters. By 1891, Ibsen had returned to Norway a literary hero. He died on May 23, 1906, in Oslo, Norway.
   As a child, Henrik Ibsen showed little sign of the theatrical genius he would become. He grew up in the small Norwegian coastal town of Skien as the oldest of five children born to Knud and Marichen Ibsen. His father was a successful merchant and his mother painted, played the piano and loved to go to the theater. Ibsen himself expressed an interest in becoming an artist as well.

The family was through into poverty when Ibsen was 8 because of problems with his father's business. Nearly all traces of their previous affluence had to be sold off to cover debts, and the family moved to a rundown farm near town. There Ibsen spent much of his time reading, painting and performing magic tricks. At 15, Ibsen stopped school and went to work. He landed a position as an apprentice in an apothecary in Grimstad. Ibsen worked there for six years, using his limited free time to write poetry and paint. In 1849, he wrote his first play Catalina , a drama written in verse modeled after one of his great influences William Shakesphere 

I think "A dolls House" will be about a family who had money but then when bankrupt and had to eventually move. I think this because Ibsen's family was wealthy once and then they went through poverty because problems with his dads job.

http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014?page=1