[英语学习]研究生英语阅读教程提高级 Lesson_18.ppt

The author Saul Bellow Dangling Man 1976 Nobel Prize for literature Malamud The Assistant Frank Morris Hellen * Lesson 18 A Summer’s Reading CATALOGUE About the Author Warm-up Activities Language Points Keys Oral Practice And Discussion text About the Author Bernard Malamud (1914-86) born: April 26, 1914, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.died: March 18, 1986, New York, N.Y. American novelist and short-story writer who made parables(寓言故事） out of Jewish immigrant life. A son of Russian Jews, Malamud was educated at the City College of New York (B.A., 1936) and Columbia University (M.A., 1942). He taught at high schools in New York City (1940-49), at Oregon State University (1949-61), and at Bennington College, Vt. (1961-66, 1968-86). About the Author His first novel, The Natural (1952), is a fable about a baseball hero who is gifted with miraculous powers. The Assistant (1957) is about a young Gentile hoodlum and an old Jewish grocer. The Fixer (1966) takes place in Russia. The story of a Jewish handyman（杂务工） unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Christian boy, it won Malamud a Pulitzer Prize. His other novels are A New Life (1961), Dubins Lives (1979), and Gods Grace (1982). Warm-up Activities 1. When and where did this story take place? 2. Who were the characters? 3. Could you talk about the conflict(s) in this story? Warm-up Activities George Stoyonovich: A nineteen-year-old high-school dropout living aimlessly in the working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. He considered registering in a night high school but he did not like the idea of the teachers always telling him what to do. He felt they had not respected him. Sophie Stoyonovich: Georges elder sister, a tall bony girl of twenty-three who works at a cafeteria in the Bronx. She has to take care of the house because their mother was dead. She sometimes reads good books. Major Characters Warm-up Activities Mr. Cattanzara: A stocky, bald-headed man who worked in a c