Unit 2 Understanding ideas 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册.pptxVIP

新外研社高中英语选择性必修一Unit2 Onwards and Upwards Understanding Ideas We regret to inform you... These are the words that every writer dreads receiving, but words every writer knows well. The response from a publisher comes back and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence. You may have spent years giving up your weekends and free time to write your lifes work, yet still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced rejection. Take for example J.K.Rowling. When she received her first rejection letter, she decided that it meant she now had something in common with her favorite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall. Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing. When she finally finished her first book, she received comments from publishers along the lines of too difficult for children, too long, Children would not be interested in it. Nevertheless, she persevered. I wasnt going to give up until every single publisher turned me down, but I often feared that would happen, she later posted. After a total of twelve rejections, one publisher eventually agreed to print 500 copies of her first book, and as we know, Harry Potter became a global success, with over 400 million books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages. All too often writers of great works have had to face criticism along with rejection. J.D. Salinger started writing short stories in high school, but later struggled to get his works published. We feel that we dont know the central character well enough was the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers, J.D. Salinger refused to give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worke