【ppt课件】高级英语课件第九

The writer calls this the terrible justice of reality and the
people accept it. The whole material may be clearly
divided into five parts.Paragraphs 1, 4, 5, and 6 describe
happiness and on what it depends. She states her views
very clearly in one sentence: “Happiness is based on a just
discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither
people and their reactions to the child’s suffering .
Paragraph 14 describes the different attitude and reactions
of a few. Finally, there are many short paragraphs ( 2,7,11
we2r0e21/b6/1e8ing held. Here are a few examples: bright-tower3ed,
sparkled with flags, red roofs, painted walls, robes of mauve(紫红色) and grey, Green Fields,streamers of silver gold and green, burned with white-gold fire, sunlit air, dark blue sky, a shimmering of gong and tambourine(小手 鼓), a cheerful faint sweetness of the air, joyous clanging of bells, etc. Similarly she successfully paints a very vivid and poignant(辛辣的) picture of the misery and suffering of the child. There is also a variety of sentence structure to be found: long periodic or loose sentences with a string of participial phrase modifiers, varied with short powerful sentences, short elliptical sentences, rhetorical questions, absolute constructions, etc. Besides these, there are also many figures of speech to be found, such as, similes and metaphors.
describes emotionally and colorfully the city of O. In reality, however, she discourses on a
rather provocative (引起争论的)theme –the nature of
necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”. What
the citizens of Omelas do not have or do not wish to have
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may be classed as things, which the writer thinks, are
the colorful celebrations of the Festival of Summer.
describes the misery and suffering of the child .
Paragraphs 9, 10 and 12 describe the attitude of most
destructive of happiness. The most important thing on
which the happiness of the people of Omelas is based is
the misery and suffering of the child in the basement cellar.
Lesson Nine
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Detailed Study of the Text
1. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas may be called
a piece of allegorical(讽寓的)description.The writer
and 13) which serve to introduce new topics or ideas.
These short paragraphs are more effective and forceful
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than ordinary topic sentences. The writer further punctuates her points by using many rhetorical questions . For example, in paragraph 2 she uses the question, “How is one to tell about joy?” to prepare the reader for her provocative views on joy, happiness, pain, evil, etc. The second question states clearly she is going to describe the citizens of Omelas. The last paragraph, however, stands out sharply from among all the others . It is the most interesting and thought provoking paragraph. The writer puts forward the problem but does not supply the answers, thus allowing the readers to give free rein to their imagination. The writer uses a lot of specific words describing sound and color to paint a verbal picture of the city of Omelas and to describe the joyous celebrations that