高级英语 everyday use课文赏析ppt

总结-Alice Walker
• The whole course of self-consciousness is a hard one. How to realize one’s value and keep the tradition? Abandoned by the long-term restrict of the white community and the men, black women have to realize their own value and keep their own spirit before they fight for the equal right in the society. Alice Walker believes that it is not long when all the black women began to realize their own value and tradition.
• From that, we can know that Maggie is not confident and she is afraid to speak.
• She can have them, mama……
• From that, we can know that Maggie doesn’t want to win something from her sister at all and she will not be angry with her sister. The most important one is that she doesn’t complain about her miserabt character
• — uneducated but sensible • — physically strong but spiritually weak, a sense of inferiority • — cherish “grandma’s everyday use” • — a symbol of the black working women: the majority of black women
• Maybe we can conclude that Dee represents some black young people who failed to realize the really meaning of the feminism and feminism movement. It is easy to find that her sense of value is formed by the education of the White community. While all people celebrate and emphasize • We can see that Dee is so sure of herself, “She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her”.
• He moves to hug Maggie, but she falls back right up against the back chairs…..
• From that, we can know that Maggie is very afraid of people.
• Aunt Dee’s first husband whittled the dash, said Maggie so low that you almost couldn’t hear you.
• However, Walker wants to show us that Dee actually has no self-identity of herself. She is eager to be involved into the white society, even the simple following of the “tradition” only aims to get the “nice things”. To judge her own tradition and culture by the value of some one else is what Walker worries about.The three changes after the conflict of the three heroines show that how to form the self-identity of all women.You need to make something of yourself.
Dee — a round character
• —fashionable, rebellious, strong-minded and ill-temped, a sense of vanity • — a symbol of the modern black women • — superficial love of black tradition
Maggie — a flat character
• — docile, timid, shy, good-temped, kindhearted and unselfish, a strong sense of inferiority • — inherence of black culture, genuine love of black tradition • — a symbol of the tradition black weak women
Characters in “Everyday Use”
Maggie
• She will stand hopelessly in corners, and homely after her sister goes. • From that, we can know that Maggie feels herself inferior than others, and she is very shy. She has no hope, and she just adores her sister.
Dee
• Dee is not appreciated by the author. At first, Dee wanted to get rid of her own culture. She hated her humble house and never wanted to take her friends to her family. She pursed the white culture and received good education of the white community. When the black movement began, she simply took her tradition that she once hated as a thing to show off. She carefully took pictures of her humble house, took the churn and dasher as something artistic, wore strange clothes and changed her name, which totally is a superficial imitation of the black tradition.