英语专业 高级英语第11课 beauty .pptVIP

Outline --Warming up 1.about the author 2.brief introduction of text 3.appreciation of rhetorical devices 4.analysis of difficult sentences Notes on the text Lesson Eleven Beauty --By 侯霖 曹婧 郝涵娇 刘轩辰 邢琪 侯林彤 Introduction 1.Comment on the following sayings: Beauty is only skin deep. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 2. What’s your opinion about beauty? Try to give a definition, please. What is beauty? A Private History of Awe: the latest book of him, a coming-age memoir, love story, and spiritual testament, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing examined the human place in mature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path. Story “beauty” is a chapter in Scott Sanders’ book Hunting for Hope, published in 1998. In this essay, sanders makes a comparison of his daughter’s shinning beauty on her wedding day to the beauty of physics and cosmos. Through the comparison, the writer think that a universe so prodigal of beauty may need us to notice and respond, need our sharp eyes and brimming hearts and teeming minds, in order to close the circuit of Creation. Structure Part I ( Paras.1-13): the recollection of Eva’s wedding and the author’s feeling at that time Part II ( Paras.14-17): the recollection of the universe Part III ( Paras.18-21): is beauty a subjective or objective existence Part IV ( Para. 22-27): whether biology also plays a role in our pursuit of beauty : the importance of beauty Structure Part V ( Para. 28-31): the wedding scene again Part VI (Para. 32-35): the beauty of law of nature Part VII. (Para. 36): his special feelings about beauty Part VIII. (Para. 37-39): in order to perceive beauty, we need training Part IX. (Para. 40) conclusion Characters Scott sander –the writer and narrator of the text Eva— his daughter Ruth— his wife, to whom he has been married thirty years Matthew- Eva’s husband The good friend whom Eva and Scott know best, p