美国文学读书汇报三篇.docVIP

American Literature Book reports Life is a choice. Choose to be wise. Education does not owe anyone a living, but it does owe a student a vision, motivation and an expectation. ---teacher Wu Your Name:____________________________ Class:________________________ Province:_______________________ Male or Female:______________________ Required Readings and questions: A. Short stories: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway a.Find a word with the meaning “brother,or man, or buddy”in the text and speculate the possible locale for the story and justify it. b.Comment on the waiter’s monologue about “nada”in 200 words. c.Account for the old man’s deafness and drunkenness in 250 words. D.The story uses “dignity” twice, elaborate on it within 300 words. Death in the Woods by Sherwood Anderson a.State possible reasons for the woman’s death. b.How would you understand the fact that the woman was dead but her body was intact? c.How would you interpret the mysterious ritual like dance of the dogs? d.How would you understand the sentence “A thing so complete has its own beauty”? Diamond As Big As the Ritz by F. S. Fitzgerald a.Restore the life style of the times the short story tries to illustrate according to concrete descriptive paragraphs in 400 words. b.Find and interpret two apparent images/symbols that you think highlight the theme of disillusionment.(300 words) c.How would you interpret the relationship between John and Jasmine? (250 words) d.Can it be true of the existence of the diamond mountain? Why yes or why not? (400 words) A P by John Updike a.Find 20 words or phrases describing colors, designs of swimming suits and translate them. b.Justify why the author “let” these girls wear bathing suits to go shopping.(300 words) c.Find 30 words or phrases describing a supermarket and translate them. d.Write a different ending for the story in 400 words. Salvation by Langston Hughes a.Comment on the narrator.(300 words) b.Why were the boy’s unties cry when