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总复习【第三辑】 《英文小说文体风格鉴赏》课程11-13讲 作业解析参考（Interpretation Commentary） Compiled by Dr-SUO Lecture 11 The Place of the Skull [Assignments] 【1】Directions: After reading the ending section of Aitmatov’s The Place of the Skull, you are required to write a critical essay in no less than 150 words. Your essay has to discuss this topic: What function does the imagery (意象) of ‘she-wolf’ play in a novel of symbolism? Give a couple of examples of figurative language. Extract (参见《英文小说风格鉴赏教程》第94－95页) 1）Meanwhile the mother hen led her chicks away from the house and round the corner, where they could scratch undisturbed in the ground. The boy pursued the chickens and, unnoticed by the adults, they ended up behind the windowless wall of the barn. Here, in among the burdock and sorrel plants, it was quiet and summery. The chicks cheeped noisily as they pecked in the rubbish and Kenjesh laughed softly as he chatted to the chickens and tried to stroke them. The hen was not in the least afraid of Kenjesh, but when a large grey dog suddenly appeared close at hand, stalking quietly towards them, she squawked angrily and led her chicks away. Kenjesh, however, showed no fear of the big grey dog with its funny dark blue eyes. She gazed meekly at the small boy, wagging her tail in friendly greeting. It was Akbara, who had been prowling round Boston’s camp for some time that morning. 2）The wolf had dared to approach so close to human habitation because since the previous night the yard had been deserted, with no sight or sound of humans or dogs. Propelled forward by her unabating maternal grief and undying hope, she cautiously made the rounds of all the sheds, stalls and feeding pens, and finding no trace of her lost cubs she stalked right up to the humans huts. Now Akbara stood face to face with the child. We cannot know what told her that this too was a child, a man cub, just like any of her own cubs, but born of man. When he