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Half a Day Naguib Mahfouz Objectives Understand the structure and the general idea of the story Think about how to interpret the story Know something about the author Solve your own questions about the story Warm up First day of school … Warm Up First day at school … Warm Up First day at school … A five-minute writing task My First Day at BFSU Try to write as much as possible about your first impressions and feelings of BFSU Work in groups of 4 Compare your notes with your friends’ and find out the similar impressions and feelings that you all have Representatives from 2 groups will report to the whole class Is this a story about magic? Work in groups and discuss the meaning of the story at 2 levels: Superficial meaning Underlying implications Be prepared to summarize your main idea and present Superficial Meaning Underlying Implications Time? Life? Education? Change? Social reality? …(p.6) Naguib Mahfouz 1911-2006 His Works His Influence The first Arab Writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – 1988, The Cairo Trilogy Depicts realistically the social and political life in Egypt His classical and lucid style rejuvenated literary Arabic without recourse to colloquialisms Underlying Implications Do you think the sudden change of the boy’s age symbolizes something? Do you think the boy’s first day at school symbolizes something? Allegory A literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense. (寓言，讽喻一种文学、戏剧或绘画的艺术手法，其中人物和事件代表抽象的观点、原则或支配力，从而使表面含义含有或表达一种对等的，但更深刻的象征意义) A story, picture, or play in which this device is used. John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress and Herman Melvilles Moby Dick are allegories. (寓言体小说，寓意画，寓言剧运用这种寓言艺术手法而作的小说、绘画或戏剧。约翰·班扬的 《天路历程》和赫尔曼·麦尔维尔的 《白鲸记》都是寓言体作品) The question I most want to ask Write down one question that you most want to ask on a piece of paper. It can be a question ab