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1、现代大学英语精读6-第四课NettlesWriting styleMany of Munros stories are set in Huron County,Ontario.(Huron County is a county of the province of Ontario,Canada.)Her strong regional focus is one of the features of her fiction.Another is the omniscient 全知的全知的 narrator who serves to make sense of the world.see the
2、 world.literature can help a new awareness of the world.Nettles荨麻荨麻【英文名】Nettle【别名】蜇人草、咬人草、蝎子草,防盗草、无情草、植物猫、咬人猫【分类】荨麻科 Urticaceae,荨麻属 Urtica L.【习性】喜阴植物,生命旺盛,生长迅速,对土壤要求不严,喜温喜湿。【生境分布】广泛分布于亚欧大陆,在我国分布在云南中部、贵州、四川东南部、湖北和浙江。Nettle:a wild plant with rough leaves that sting people grasp the nettle:deal with an
3、 unpleasant situation firmly and without delay迎难而上,大胆抓棘手的问题Why is the story entitled“Nettles”?Do nettles have any symbolic meaning here?The subject of“Nettles”is about the problems of a middle-aged woman,the passions,confusions and dilemmas that any woman in a modern society might be confronted with
4、,regardless of race,colour or nationality.friendship and lovemarriage and divorceThemeLife is not always smooth;love is not always sweet.Nettles are here and there in the journey of peoples life.Character RelationsSunnyJohnstonBrianNarrators husbandMikeMikes wifeNarratorold frienddivorcedied sonfrie
5、ndfriend(through his work)couplecoupleabout the NettlesThe plot of story evolves around a middle-aged womans reunion with a childhood boy friend in 1979,but it moves back and forth between past and present.outlinePart 1(para.1-2):Meeting again by chance in 1979Part 2(para.3-15):Childhood memory,her
6、friend,Mike.Part 3(para.16-93):The detailed story that happened in 1979 Part 4(para 94-95):conclusion-a new perception of loveanimalspara3para6:skunk(臭鼬)How does the author begin the narration?Do you find this beginning interesting or peculiar?Why or why not?The plot of the story does not follow the
7、 normal time order.The author begins her story in a rather unusual way.She starts her narrations from 1979 in the brief beginning paragraph.But after that she switches to“years afterwards”in the second paragraph.part 1:para 1-2ketchupThe narrator remembers this usual habit of Mikes,so she recognized
8、 him at once when she saw him making a ketchup sandwich at her friends house after many years.Why does the author devote so much space to the narration of childhood memories?Is the narration vivid and interesting?Give your comments.From Para3 to Para 15 the writer gives a vivid description of her ch
9、ildhood,especially the memories of time she spent with mike.The puppy love(少男少女短暂的爱情少男少女短暂的爱情,早年初恋早年初恋)she had for mike is deeply rooted in her memory.Part 2:(para.3-15)there was a tin mug hanging on the pump.para3went to whatever school which is close at hand:near in space or timeMike Mccallum had
10、a son.,and who went to whatever school was at hand.(para5)Each of the trees on the place had an attitude and presence the elm looked serene and oak threatening,the maples friendly,the hawthorn old and crabby.para7translate it into chineseWhy did author describe those trees like this?In the eyes of t
11、he little girl,every tree existed like a person that had a distinct character.In the previous sentence the narrator says that the farm was small enough for her to have explored every part of it.She was familiar with everything on the farm including the trees.The use of personification of the trees r
12、eveals the close and harmonious relationship between nature and the narrator.WhyPlantsoakmaplehawthornelm.and plowing through mats of flat-leafed water lilies,trapping our legs in their distinct character.para8moving with difficulty through water lilies which had flat leaves,with their winding roots
13、 sucking our legs.to plow through:to move with difficultyThey played a game of war with each boys and girls.main word:war,boys and girls,tree,baseball,throwshow your a picturepara12-15Did the girl miss Mike after he left with his father?how and why does the author show this?We think that was the beg
14、inning of the complex emotion between them.The girls thought and action shows that she treasured their friendship but this kind of leave make she felt regret.This part mainly tells about the narrators life in Vancouver and her meeting Mike again.Para.16-para.68Divided into 5 sectionSection 1:Para 16
15、-385 sectionSection 2:Para 39-49Section 3:Para 50-68Section 4:Para 69-90Section 5:Para 91-93But sunny had moved with her husband and her children and her furniture,in the normal way for the usual reason her husband had got another job.And I had moved for the newfangled reason that was approved of on
16、ly in some special circles.(para.20)Opposite reason of leaving The narrators feelings:Great paindepressedseparated from her own children and unhappy marriage life I was happy with all this.it made me feel as if I had made a true change,a long necessary voyage from the house of marriage.(para.21)Rhet
17、orical deviceMetaphor,comparing marriage to a house,a place that provides shelter,living space,etc.on the other hand,such a house can bea sort of confinement,hindering ones freedom.It implies their unhappy marriage and the reason why shedevoiced with her husband.Para 22-24Let Mom think were happy.Or
18、 shell fell badBecause she hates DadWhy cant she just live at home?Whats wrong with the woman and her husband?About their divorcedivorcethe Modern Womens Self-consciousness independenceQuarrels Misunderstanding And other miseries-those connected with children-that I could not.(para.24)The narrator c
19、ould forget the pain that men The narrator could forget the pain that men brought to her.She could not forget her own brought to her.She could not forget her own children.She wanted to farewell absolutely to children.She wanted to farewell absolutely to the past and begin her new life.the past and b
20、egin her new life.She did not ask me-was it delicacy or disapproval?-about my new life.(para.29)the narrator guessed this was either because the narrator guessed this was either because Sunny thought this was a sensitive subject and Sunny thought this was a sensitive subject and there tried to avoid
21、 it or because she there tried to avoid it or because she disapproved of her friends new life and disapproved of her friends new life and therefore didnt want to hear abouttherefore didnt want to hear aboutI was full of happy energy.(para.38)The word“happy”is transferred epithet(The word“happy”is tr
22、ansferred epithet(移位修移位修辞法)辞法)Though used before the noun Though used before the noun“energy”,it actually modifies“I“.“energy”,it actually modifies“I“.What are the characteristics of the narration in paragraph 4549?It contains It contains a series of narration and questions a series of narration and
23、 questions the narrator asked herselfthe narrator asked herself by showing her by showing her arousing sexual desire and her intention to be arousing sexual desire and her intention to be intimate with Mike.intimate with Mike.Why did the narrator arouse desires both in seeing the stars and laying in
24、 the sheets that Mike had slept before?The narrator and Mike had a very happy time when they were both very young.The narrator had fantasies on Mike and imagined herself as Mikes wife.maybe they did that at their childhoodWhats the narrators referring to kids plays in the passage?(para55-para62)?The
25、 dialogue between Mike and the narrator refers to children in these parts.It paves the way for the kids being killed in the later paragraphs.I liked his saying“we”and I liked riding beside him,in the wifes seat.(para.54)the narrator,like a light-headed(轻浮)adolescent girl,was indulging herself in a w
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