Unit 8 Fourteen Steps Hal Manwaring.pptVIP

Unit 8Fourteen StepsHal Manwaring Pre-reading Questions Can an invalid lead a happy and successful life? Please explain. 2. How would you show your appreciation if somebody helps you when you are in trouble? Hal Manwaring was a crippled man who needed a crutch to get around. One dark rainy night, as he was driving home, a tire blew on his car and forced him off the road. Noticing a light on in a nearby house, he thumped slowly along the shoulder to see if someone there could help him. He was feeling sorry for himself that a crippled man should be so inconvenienced. when a little girl opened the door of the house. He called out that he had a flat tire and couldn’t change it because of his handicap. The little girl went back in the house and soon emerged with an old man who, with the little girl’s help, changed the tire in the pouring rain. Hal offered to pay the old man, but was refused. Nevertheless Hal held out a $20 bill, but the old man didn’t make any move to take it. The little girl came closer to the window and whispered, “he can’t see. Grandpa is blind,” she said. Hal said he was overcome with horror as the situation played over and over in his mind driving home. He had used his crutch as an excuse and the old man never gave a moments concern that he was blind. Structural Analysis The text is composed of four parts: Part I (Paragraph 1-2):about the author’s first life Part II (Paragraph 3-5):about the author’s second life Part III (Paragraph 6-8):about the incident that gave the author his third life Part IV (Paragraph 9-10): the author’s reflection on the help he got from the flat tire incident. Paragraphs 1-2 The two paragraphs are about the author’s first life which could be further divided into two phases: the first phase was a hard struggle to make a living because of the early death of his father and the support for his paralyzed mother, and the second phase was “a pleasant dream”, because the author had everything th