lessonfouradrinkinthepassage(编辑修改稿)

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e name? What do you think was the reason why van Rensburg decided to befriend this black stranger? (8)Then he said to me, “Are you educated?”I said unwillingly. “Yes.” Then I thought to myself, how stupid, for leaving the question open. (Para. 27)Question: 7 Why did he say that he was a fool to leave the question open? (9)Now I certainly had not expected that I would have drink in the passage. (Para. 30)Questions: How did Simelane feel when he realized that they were going to drink in the passage? Did he feel insulted and angry? Why do you think Simelane was not invited in? (10)On the other side were the doors, impersonal doors. (Para. 37) … I was thinking that one of the impersonal doors might open at any moment… (Para. 39 Question: Why did Simelane keep referring to the “impersonal doors”? Why impersonal? (11)… and van Rensburg, in a strained voice that suddenly came out of nowhere, said, “Our land is beautiful. But it breaks my heart.” (Para. 44) “You know,” he said, “about our land being beautiful?” (Para. 69)Question: What did van Rensburg mean when he said that he thought their land was beautiful but sometimes broke his heart? (12) What he was thinking, God knows, but I was thinking he was like a man trying to run a race in iron shoes, and not understanding why he cannot move. (Para. 75)Question: What did Simelane mean when he said that van Rensburg was like a man trying to run a race in iron shoes, and not understanding why he cannot move? Further Discussion Is the story told in the first person or third person? What do you think is the relationship between the author and the protagonist? Can you describe the occasion when the author heard Simelane relate the story? What did the author mean when he said that sculpture touched the conscience of white South Africa? Why did Simelane say that he didn’t feel like a drink at that time of night, with a white stranger and all? Do you think their discussion about what language they should use was idle talk? Did the white man want to touch and hug Simelane? Why didn’t he if he really felt that way? The sculptor also felt like hugging his white friend, didn’t he? Why didn’t he do that? 8 Why did Simelane’s wife weep when she heard the story that night? DevicesPoint of View: Now observe the following sentences carefully. What is the focus of narration? Then one night I was working late at the Herald, and when I came out there was hardly anyone in the streets, so I thought I’d go and see the window, and indulge certain pleasurable human feelings. I must have got a little lost in the contemplation of my own genius, because suddenly there was a young white man standing next to me. (Para. 9) What is point of view? Point of view signifies the way a story gets told—the mode (or modes) established by an author by means of which the reader is presented with the characters, dialogue, actions, setting, and events which constitute the narrative in a work of fiction. The first person point of viewThis narrative mode limits the matter of the narrative to what the firstperson narrator knows, experiences, infers, or can find out by talking to other characters. We distinguish between the narrative “I” who is only a fortuitous witness and auditor of the matters he relates (Marlow in Heart of Darkness)。 or who is a participant, but only a minor or peripheral one, in the story (Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby)。 or who is himself or herself the central character in the story (Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre). FlashbackNow study the following paragraph. What is the function of it? He said to me. “This is the second cognac I’ve had in my life. Would you like to hear the story of how I had my first?” (Para. 6) This paragraph serves to introduce a flashback. What is flashback? Flashbacks are interpolated narratives or scenes (often justified, or naturalized, as a memory, a reverie, or a confession by one of the characters) which represent events that happened before the time at which the work opened. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) and Ingmar Bergman’s film Wild Strawberries make persistent and skillful use of this device. Figurative LanguageNow study the following sentences and tell us what figurative speech is used in each and how it contributes to the expressive effect 9 of the language. 1. It’s also the first time I’ve drunk a brandy so slowly. In Orlando you develop a throat of iron. () 2. He sat slumped in his seat, like a man with a burden of inprehensible, insoluble grief. (Para. 75) 3. What he was thinking, God knows, but I was thinking he was like a man trying to run a race in iron shoes, and not understanding why he cannot move. (Para. 75) Paraphrase1. In the year 1960 the Union Africa celebrated its Golden Jubilee(50th anniversary), and there was a nationwide (throughout the nation)sensation (extreme excitement or interest) when the onethousandpound prize for the finest piece of sculpture was won by a black man, Edward Simelane. (Para. 1)In the year 1960, the Union of South Africa celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and there was a great excitement throughout the country when people heard that the prize for the finest piece of sculpture was won by a black man. 2. His work, African Mother and Child, not only excited the admiration, but touched the conscience or heart or whatever it was that responded, of white South Africa. (Para. 1) His sculpture, African Mother and Child, not only won the admiration of the white people for its artistic merit, but also deeply touched or moved their hearts and conscience because the work made them see the injustice of racial discrimination and the black people’s yearning for a better life for their children. 3. It was by an oversight (a mistake that you make by not noticing sth.。