Unit5_I_The_Company_Man_last资料.ppt

He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to hime o keep he man at home. Paraphrasing this sentence please. * It was the boy who made efforts to divert his fathers attention from work. * At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed and would be hard to replace. Explain had meant much in your own words * Had been very important * Part 4 (Paragraph 14-16) This is the end of the essay. After the cause of Phils death being restated, the author goes on to report the company presidents inquiry for his successor. * Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. What does mean by a heart-attack natural. * a person suited by nature for heart-attack * How many times is he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 a. m. Sunday morning repeated in the essay Why is it repeated? * Three times. By repeating this sentence, the author relates the two contradictory ideas-work and Sunday and thus reveals the personality of the man and suggests that the man is destined to be exhausted. * Why does the essay end with the question the company president asked? * This question is a bitter irony that strikes us as heavy-hearted. To find the replacemen of Phil, one who worked himself to death, the company president asked whos been working he hardest? This question shows that being hard-working is the deciding factor in determining whether one will be promoted. From this, we can learn that it was this social value of this competitive society that determined Phils attitude towards work and caused his death. * How is irony used in language and in juxtapositions of image? * By putting contradictory actions or ideas together such as worked himeself...at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office,...he (his son) went around the neighborhood researching his father, the auh