20世纪文学课件 Sister Imelda.pptVIP

Characters Sister Imelda — she was a young nun and teacher in the convent. After she spent the last four years at the university in Dublin then she chose to come back to the convent. She seemed always to keep out so mysterious to her background and life. Narrator — a teenage girl and a boarder or student in the convent. Baba — a boarder or student in the convent, too. She was narrator’s best friend. Mother Superior — she was rector in the convent. Relationship and Development Sister Imelda Narrator What kinds of emotion between Sister Imelda and narrator? Worship? Love? Only concern with each other? The emotion between teacher and student? Maternal love? Analysis The narrator seems to imitate Sister Imelda and take Sister Imelda an object of worship. The narrator’s curiosity makes her approach this special teacher. Afterward, the narrator describes her inner emotions to Sister Imelda but the emotion is still hidden. Therefore, the worship seems to become emotion or even love. Analysis Perhaps the emotion only was concern with each other. Maybe that was a kind of emotion between teacher and student. Or the narrator thought Sister Imelda could bring her special concern and made her obtain the love or concern, which her parents may never gave her. Therefore, narrator might think Sister Imelda could bring love as mother does. Example “About a month later Sister Imelda…I thought how supple she … I was happy in my prison… bowed to the senile nun.” (2749 par 2 “About”) Narrator started contact with Sister Imelda more familiar and she became happy in the convent as prison and liked to be near Sister Imelda or walk behind her etc. Sister Imelda brought her different feeling in the convent as prison. “I realized that I was getting nervous… I was fired by her ardour.” (2751 new par line 13 to 2752) “Baba could say that …powder adhering to me fingers.” (2752 par 2) Here expressed narrator and Sister Imelda that their relationship became more familiar than