高级英语Unit4课文导入.pptVIP

;;About the author; The novel The Color Purple (1982), which was praised for its strong characterizations and the clear, musical quality of its colloquial language. The novel was made into a motion picture in 1985. The novel won all the three major book awards in America---the Pulitzer prize, the National Book Award （美国图书奖）, the National Book Critics Circle Award.;Alice Walker is at her best when portraying people living in the rural areas where she was born and grew up. As a black writer, Walker is particularly interested in examining relations among the black themselves. Everyday Use for your Grandmamma is just one of the good examples. In this short story, Walker chiefly uses similes, metaphors, rhetorical questions, contrasts and symbols to illustrate her theme: black people should inherit their good traditional culture with heartfelt sincerity. ;“Everyday Use” took place at a time when dramatic changes of racial relationships was happening. Alice Walker is herself a strong civil right activist. Unlike Alice Walker, the narrator and Maggie in the story didn’t rebel against discrimination and oppression, but tried to find their peace and satisfaction in the present status. ;;;;1. wavy: having regular curves波状的，有起伏的1.2 2. groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface, esp. to guide the movement of sth.纹道，纹槽1.7;3. homely: simple, not grand, (of people, faces, etc.,) not good-looking, ugly2.10 If someone is homely, they are not very attractive to look at; used in Am.E.;4. awe: Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with sth. wonderful, frightening or completely unknown.2.12敬畏 ;5. confront: to face boldly, encounter面对，遭遇3.15 If a problem, task, or difficulty confronts you, or you are confronted with it, it is sth. that you cannot avoid and must deal with I was confronted with the task of designing and building the new system.; totter: to move in an unsteady way from side to side as if about to fall, to walk with weak u