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1、Runaway-by-Alice-Munro 爱丽丝门罗 Runaway by Alice Munro _ About the author:Born in Wingham,Ontario in 1931,Alice Munro has been hailed as a writer in the tradition of Chekhov.She has won many awards and prizes all over the English-speaking world.She and her husband divide their time between Clinton,Onta
2、rio,and Comox,British Columbia.Source:Random House of Canada(http:/www.randomhouse.ca)About this book:“Runaway”is the first story in this stunning collection,sure to be a runaway success.All of the eight stories here are new,published in book form for the first time.Two of the eight have never appea
3、red anywhere,so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro fans around the world.Miraculously,these stories seem to have been written by a young writer at the peak of her powers.Alice Munros central characters range from 14-year-old Lauren in“Trespass,”through the young couple in“Runaway
4、,”whose helpful older neighbour intervenes to help the wife escape,all the way to a 70-year-old woman meeting a friend of her youth on a Vancouver street and sitting with him to recall their tangled lives fifty years earlier,through a web of cheerful lies.Three of the stories,“Chance,”“Soon,”and“Sil
5、ence,”are linked,showing us how the young teacher Juliet meets her fisherman lover on a train(and,by terrible chance,visits his B.C.home on the day after his wifes funeral);how,years later,she brings baby Penelope back east to show her parents and learns sad secrets about their marriage;and how,twen
6、ty years on,she visits the estranged Penelope in her cult-like B.C.community.The result is more powerful than most novels,a quality in Alice Munros stories that has been noted by many reviewers.The final story,“Powers,”spans 50 years and runs from Goderich to Vancouver and involves a cast of four ch
7、aracters,each of whom steps forward to dominate the scene,not least Tessa,the plain girl whose psychic powers take her on the vaudeville circuit.But it is Alice Munros own powers that dominate this collection and that will amaze reviewers and readers.How can she keep getting better?How can any one p
8、erson know so much about the heads and hearts of so many different people?And how can she weave them together in stories that delight academics and ordinary readers alike,making each new Alice Munro book a runaway bestseller?Source:Random House of Canada(http:/www.randomhouse.ca)Discussion Questions
9、:“Runaway”1.Why is Sylvia so fond of Carla?Is Sylvia right,given the circumstances,to suggest that Carla leave her husband and give her the means to do so?2.When Carla tells her parents she wants a“more authentic”life,what does she mean by this p.33?How much does Carla know about authenticity or abo
10、ut life?3.What is Clarks appeal for Carla?What darker suggestions does the story make about Clarks character?It seems that Clark has wanted to get rid of Carlas beloved pet goat:why?What resonance does Carlas vision of the goats bones lying in a nearby field have for the readers understanding of her
11、 future?“Chance”4.Why does Juliet decide to pursue Eric,a man she has met briefly only once?Is this a haphazard adventure,or does she go to Whale Bay with a determination about what she wants?She has told Eric about her studies in Greek and Latin,“I love all that stuff.I really do”p.71.Later,she thi
12、nks of her love of the classical languages as her“treasure”p.83.Why does she choose a man whose reading includes only National Geographic and Popular Mechanics p.82?5.Consider the end of the story:“She can tell by his voice that he is claiming her.She stands up,quite numb,and sees that he is older,h
13、eavier,more impetuous than she has remembered.He advances on her and she feels herself ransacked from top to bottom,flooded with relief,assaulted by happiness.How astonishing this is.How close to dismay”p.85.What does this passage express about Juliets situation and her feelings?“Soon”6.When Juliet
14、finds the print of Chagalls I and the Village and buys it for her parents,she tells Christa,“It makes me think of their life.I dont know why,but it does”p.88.What is the significance of this painting as a gift and that Juliet later finds it hidden away in their attic?What does Juliet come to underst
15、and about her parents marriage?7.Sara tells Juliet,“When it gets really bad for mewhen it gets so bad Iyou know what I think then?I think,all right,I thinkSoon.Soon Ill see Juliet”p.124.Why does Juliet refuse to acknowledge this statement from her dying mother?What makes the final paragraph of the s
16、tory so effective in conveying the moments cold emotion?“Silence”8.Like Carla in“Runaway,”Juliet seems to take pride in her choice of an unconventional life.Does Penelope punish her mother for denying her the comfortable,conventional life she experiences with her friend Heathers family p.144?Is Juli
17、et right or wrong to share with Penelope,just after Erics death,tales of their arguments and his infidelity and to describe the burning of his body on the beach p.149?Is it possible that Juliet says something during this time that is,for Penelope,unforgivable?To what extent does the story repeat the
18、 pattern of“Soon”and Juliets rejection of her own mother?9.What does Juliet not see about herself that is clear to the reader?What aspects of her character are problemat ic?Is she admirable?Is she a narcissist?Is she“lacking in motherly inhibitions and propriety and self-control”p.156?How does she h
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