英语泛读教程2Unit 15

Family Background
• Father: doctor who interested Ernest in
sciences and objective reasoning • Mother: taught music and have her children well-educated in the arts • A rich environment of culture religion and the sciences
Work experience
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A cub reporter (1917 to 1918) An ambulance driver for the Red Cross (1918) Freelance (after the war) A correspondent in Spain (1937) Patrol the waters for German subs in Cuba (in WWII)
New words
Text (III) • sin 罪过 • dentuso 灰鲭鲨 • scavenger 食腐肉的动物 • tiller 舵柄 • oar 桨 • rudder 舵 • vertebrae 椎骨 • cartilage 软骨 • scent 气味 • club 棍棒、棍打 • gaff 大鱼叉 • galano 加拉诺鲨 Text (IV) • stern 船尾 • harpoon 鱼叉 • phosphorescence 微光 • lunge 刺进 • splintered butt 裂成碎 片的柄 • jagged 不整齐的 • carcass 牲畜的尸体 • shingle 小圆石
Birth பைடு நூலகம்nd Death
• Birth: July 21, 1899,
in Oak Park, Illinois, America • Death (suicide - gunshot) : July 2, 1961, at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (爱达荷州)
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Love affair: with a nurse The first marriage: 1921, Hadley Richardson The second marriage: 1927, Pauline The third marriage: 1940, Martha The fourth marriage: 1946, Mary Welsh
The Old Man And The Sea
• Language • Plots • Images • Theme
Questions • What do you think is most important for a
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fisherman? Why is there friendship between the old man and the boy? What is the old man like in the boy’s eyes? What is the boy like in the old man’s eyes? Did the old man love the big fish? Why did he kill the fish? How do you understand “You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him.”
Unit 15 The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Birth and Death Family Background Education Marriage Work experience Works Comment and Influence
Works
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1923, “Three Stories and Ten Poems” 1924-1925, “In Our Time” 1926, “The Sun Also Rises” (an international success) 1929, “A Farewell to Arms” 1932, “Death in the Afternoon” 1935, “The Green Hills of Africa” 1936, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” 1940, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” 1952, “The Old Man and the Sea” (the Pulitzer Prize in 1952, the Nobel prize in 1954)
Comment and Influence
• But there seemed to be a collective effort by Hemingway’s
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many writer-mentors to witness the birth of his first novel. Although Hemingway’s career was taking off, his personal life was showing cracks. I think Hemingway had some significant strengths as a writer and human being, but he also had profound weaknesses. One of his weaknesses is that he seems not to have been very good at feeling gratitude. He tended to turn his back on people who helped him. (Hemingway scholar Dr. James Nagel) I think he would not be the celebrity he is still today were it not for “The Old Man and the Sea” and the two prizes. (Hemingway scholar Dr. James Nagel) One centers on the idea that Hemingway was upset because he could no longer write well. Another claims, as Nagel says, that he was “depressed because he saw the black emptiness of human existence, or something philosophical.”
Education
• In school, Hemingway penned stories that are
now forgettable, but show raw talent. • He graduated from high school and then went to work.
Marriage
Questions
• Why didn’t the old man give up the fish when
the dentuso’s attack was foreseen? • If you were the old man, would you just kill yourself when you did not have families around, did not have enough food, did not take any fish in 84 days, living in a shabby shack? • How do you understand “A man can be destroyed but not defeated”? • Is the old man’s life a success or a failure? Is he a hero or a common fisherman?