The-Curious-Case-of-Benjamin-Button返老还童-英文介绍.ppt

By F. Scott Fitzgerald 2012/2/17 Summer Introduction of F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald F?司各特?菲茨杰拉德（1896-1940） was born in St.Paul(圣保罗), Minnesota(明尼苏达州) , in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he got married, and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera (里维埃拉), becoming a part of the American expatriate(流放) circle that included Gertrude Stein(格特鲁德·斯坦因), Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos(约翰·多斯·帕索斯). Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces(杰作) include The Beautiful and Damned(美丽与诅咒), The Great Gatsby(了不起的盖茨比), and Tender Is the Night(夜色温柔). He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty—four while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon(最后一个巨头). Character introduction Benjamin Button:main character, a man who have a back forward life. Roger Buttons:Benjamin’s parents Hildegarde Moncrief:Benjamin’s wife Roscoe Button: Benjamin’s son “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse: He is born a feeble(微弱的) 70-year-old and becomes younger as the years progress. This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Button‘s many adventures: He falls in love with a woman who ages normally (this causes complications), starts a family, and establishes a successful business. In his later years, he attends Harvard(哈佛) as a student and plays on their football team. By the time he is an old man, Benjamin Button resembles(像) a newborn baby. And then he remembered nothing.Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and darkness. Expanding And their also a movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” adapted from this book.The movie was directed by David Fincher(大卫·芬奇). In the movie, the director changed a lot of the book. He added the part of anti-w