[英语学习]Adance English6.ppt

Teaching Aims 1) To help students to learn narrative writing. To help students to appreciate the author’s the successful characterization. Arthur Hailey (1920-2004) ----- born in England; ---- began his writing career while an RAF（British Royal Air Force ） pilot during the Second World War; ----- became a Canadian citizen as well as British; -----Haileys novels have been published in thirty-nine languages. -----An estimated 160 million copies are in print worldwide. ---- Most of his books have been made into films or TV series.  Major works : Type of literature ? a piece of narration ---Character, plot , settings, conflicts, climax and theme Character: protagonist antagonist Settings: time / place Conflicts: between the rivals Climax: the summit of the confrontations Theme/ main idea Protagonist: Duchess Antagonist : Ogilvie Place: at Croydon’s suite Conflict: the competition between them Duchess tries to make full use of his greed Ogilvie tries to blackmail Synopsis (概要)/ Plot The Duke and the Duchess of Croydon occupy a luxury suite in St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans. On Monday evening, while driving back with his wife, the Duchess, from a gambling house, the Duke knocks down a woman and her child. Both of them are killed. They drive away. The hit-and-run becomes sensational news in the city. Ogilvie, the chief house detective of the hotel, the blackmailer in the story, notices the battered car when it drives back into the garage of the hotel. Instead of reporting this to the police, he goes to see the Duke and the Duchess. He blackmails them for a large sum of money as the price of his keeping silent. The Duchess does not admit the crime until the detective produces a