Lesson 10 Before and after Sept 11[zhang] 现代大学英语精读课件.ppt

Para 1 If someone had slept through Sep. 11.., on an astonishing new landscape: If someone fell asleep before September 11, like the hero Rip Van Winkle in the story of Washington Irving, and then woke up after September 11, he would find that great changes had taken place in the United States. Para6 Kesey ventured that this was really a war---,things might begin to be. 1) How did Kesey analyze the nature of the war? He considered the war as a war between the traditional pattern of power politics and a way of the weak trying to strike back, an asymmetrical war. 2) the brutal, aggressively male way things had always been. What did Kesey mean by this? He meant the brutal, oppressive forces of the major powers in the world. In such a world, power, especially military power, had the final say. Reflection 1. What messages do---? What will Sept11 tell us? Poisonous flowers, nightmare, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Pompeii , poisonous gas, cries, pains, skins burning off, these scenes were terrible, but people remember them painfully, people couldn’t forget these things I order to understand why they happened. Human disaster, natural disaster, different. Reflection 2. What will 9/11 tell us? Why do they hate us? 1) Bush said they hate us for what we are or who we are. 2) American policy 3) Hiroshima, Babi Yar , etc. bombing, destroy city in one day, burn down the whole city , military sense; much psychological effect: bomb, kill thousands of thousands people, but effect in psychology is unimaginable. So 9/11 tells us that the incident is neither for military purpose nor for government purpose, but for psychological purpose. Why should Bush administration pursue this policy? Reflection 3.Why do you think the writer wants to have this section and entitle it Historys Lessons? When the writer writes this section, the writer may have the outcry of the Americans in mind. Traditionally, Americans put high value on the life of individual Ameri