[英语学习]Discoery of a Father.ppt

Warm-up Read the following story Exchange your understanding of the story with you classmates When God Created Fathers “Do you realize You just made a father without a lap? How is he going to pull a child close to him without the kid falling between his legs?” God smiled and said, “A mother needs a lap. A father needs strong shoulders to pull a sledge, balance a boy on a bicycle or hold a sleepy head on the way home from the circus.” How do you understand this story? About the author:Sherwood Anderson (1876~1941) A brief introduction on page 36. Sherwood Anderson did not become a writer until 1912, during his thirty-sixth year. His career as a writer was influenced by two important facts of his life: first, he was raised in a small town in Ohio; second, he was a highly successful businessman before turning to writing as his life’s work. His short stories and novels reflect these facts in their portrayal of characters whose talents and ambitions are stifled by a semi-rural environment, or whose monetary success renders them alienated and unfulfilled rather than happy. Today Anderson is best remembered for his masterpiece—Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and for his novel Dark Laughter (1925). And he also left three personal narratives: A Story-Teller’s Story (1924) Tar: A Midwest Childhood (1926) Sherwood Anderson’s Memoirs (1942) His writing style: Anderson wrote his stories that appeal not through careful fabrications of incidents or episodes, but by the sheer emotional force of the moments of revelation, or the Joycean epiphany that these stories describe. About the Stories This is a story about an interesting character told by his son who later became a well-known writer. With well-selected anecdotes and using the tone of a little boy, the author gives a vivid character sketch of his father whom he used to despite but gradually learns to understand and appreciate when he grows up. The Outline of the Passage The first part: ( paragraph1 ~ paragraph25 ) In t