hiroshima-the-liveliest-city-in-japan课件.ppt

Para 39 The expression of the people told me what the answer was. What happened to the old man? How did he face it? --a fisherman by trade. --was in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. --had no burns on his face or body (no injuries on the outside) --his hair began to fall out, his belly turned to water, felt sick --has been in hospital for more than 20 years --he gazed at the writer ..with interest. --has been making little lucky birds, congratulating himself. 2) What have you learned about Hiroshima, its people and Japanese customs from this section? it seems that the atomic bomb victims do not get sympathy from people but prejudice. The affected people commit suicide It is humiliating to survive… encounter prejudice People are afraid of genetic damage from the radiation making lucky birds 3) Was the writer ironical and humorous in this section? Was his tone different from that of the first section? Why? The tone changed into an objective one: telling what he heard and seen. Not ironical and humorous, but his sympathetic and sad. He got the truth although people have tried to mask all the time. 4) What questions do you think the reporter had wanted to ask beforehand? What answers did he get from people’s eyes? such as: do you think Hiroshima is the liveliest city in Japan? Writing Technique Contrast: description of the scenery and of his own emotion Psychology: sorrowful and repentant. Hiroshima symbolizes war crime, sin, death, terror, etc. Scenery: lively, happy, vigorous, cheerful, etc. Writing Technique Humour: serious looking men, bob up and down, the cab driver, the usher, meeting the mayor in his socks, spinal column flexible, Hiroshima---oysters, small man with very large eye-glasses, his eyes nearly closed behind their thick lenses, etc. Rhetoric-irony Irony:a figure of speech in which the meaning literally expressed is the opposite of the meaning intended and which aims at ridicule, humour or sarcasm. Irony Hiroshima---the Liveliest C