现代大学英语精读6（第二版）参考用书housewifelyarts文章结构.pdfVIP

Structure of the Text Part I (Paras. 1-11) The protagonist introduces herself and tells us that she is driving nine hours with her 7-year-old son so that she can hear her mother’s voice again. Part II (Paras. 12-22) The protagonist describes how she had to sell her mother’s house and how the house brought backmemories of her dead mother with her African parrot. Part III (Paras. 23-34) On their way to the Zoo, the protagonist and her son come to a rest stop and what she sees makesher think about her responsibilities as a mother. Part IV (Paras. 35-51) The protagonist reminisces about how she first saw the parrot at her mother’s home andhow theydeveloped a hostile relationship from the very beginning. Part V (Paras. 52-58) The protagonist tells her son where they are going and for what purpose. We learn from this section what kind of person her son’s father is and how she became a single parent. Part VI (Paras. 59-65) The protagonist’s son, Ike, tells her a story about his classmate Louis’ crazy mother and this once again makes her keenly aware of her desire to protect her son against even the knowledge that such people exist. Part VII (Paras. 66-97) This is a most revealing and touching part of the story in which we learn the reasons for the intense disagreements between the protagonist and her mother. She does not understand why hermother often appears harsh and cold, unlike her father, who was kind and did not judge her, norcan she understand why her mother gave so much of her care and attention to a bird s o soon afterher father’s death. Part VIII (Paras. 98-110) The protagonist and her son check into an inn and there she remembers how her mother cried overher grandmother’sdeath. She also hears in the news about a python strangling a toddler, whichreminds her of a video of a similar event Ike’s father showedher. The fear that this could reallyhappen to he