高级英语第三单元blackmail

About the Author (1-4)
Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 –
November 24, 2004) was a British/Canadian/American/Bahamian novelist. Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II in 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a full-time writer in 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight). Following the success of Hotel in 1965, he moved to California.
Driving on the way back to the hotel the Duke and Duchess of Croydon ran over a mother and her child and fled. The house detective Ogilvie found the evidence of hit-and-run. Instead of reporting the police headquarter, he went to Croydons to blackmail, asking for ten thousand dollawenku.baidu.coms for keeping quiet about what he saw. The Duchess was irritated at first by the rascal behavior but yield to the blackmailer when she learned their mess. She bet on Ogilvie’s greed by offering Ogilvie twenty-five thousand dollars on one condition: Ogilvie must drive the car secretly to Chicago for repair. She made the deal.
Advanced English I Lesson 3
Black Mail
Arthur Hailey
sanax.diinoweb.com
Preview
As an integrated one of the narrative events in Arthur Hailey’s novel Hotel (1967), “Black Mail” depicts a full process of how a blackmailer extorts the Duke and Duchess of Croydon and how he is subdued to help the couple to dispose the evidence of crime.
www.thebahamasnews.com
Arthur Hailey holds The Moneychangers
About the Author (3-4)
Arthur and Sheila
"It’s not been easy," Sheila confides, "but our life together has never been dull." Says Arthur: "We have very disparate talents; we fill in each other’s blanks." For the first 14 years of their marriage, the Haileys lived in Toronto and they both, to this day, retain Canadian and British citizenship. Then, on a research trip to California for his novel Airport he found himself in the beautiful Napa Valley and, impulsively, decided this is where the Hailey family should live. He bought a hillside lot within 24 hours of his arrival, then wired Sheila the good news.
Arthur and Sheila
About the Author (4-4)
Last Days
Arthur Hailey died in his sleep at Lyford Cay where he and his wife had made their home in Nassau. He died on Wednesday 24th November. Mr. Hailey was 84 and had been suffering from dementia for about three years. He had had a stroke about two months ago, and it appears that he suffered another stroke in his sleep. His wife Sheila pronounced herself satisfied with the way he lived his life. He was married to his wife Shelia for over 50 years. When they moved to The Bahamas in the 1970s, the couple was the toast of the town. Mrs. Hailey told that her husband was not a religious man and that there would be no funeral. www.bahamasuncensored.com
Style
Genre:
Novel.
Structure:
“Black Mail” as an integrated story (side story) in Hotel, retains the feature of Freytag's pyramid for dramatic structures, which often consists of five acts as the following: 1. exposition (inciting incident). 2. rising action. 3. climax (or turning point). 4. falling action. 5. dé nouement or catastrophe (resolution).
Style
Mode:
1. Informal. 2. Satire.
Literary Techniques:
1. Framing device: the single scene in the Croydon’s suite. 2. Sensory detail or imagery : depiction of roles’ characters according to narrator’s vision, auditory sensation and perception. 3. Dialogue : The contradiction and the climax of the story are revealed thought the exchanges of the dialogues between the roles. 3. Figure of speech: metaphor, simile, transferred epithet.
www.bahamasuncensored.com
Arthur Hailey’s Writings
Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environments and systems function and how these affect society and its inhabitants. He would spend about one year researching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book. That aggressive research — tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian jungle at age 67 for The Evening News (1990), or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel — gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers. He wrote 11 books, which were published in 40 countries and 38 languages, with about 170 million copies in print. Mr. Hailey's books might have been abused by the critics but no one questioned their popularity. Many of his books have reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and made into movies. Hotel was made into a long-running television series. Airport became a blockbuster movie with stunning visual effects.
About the Author
(2-4)
A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila who wrote: "I Married a Best-Seller" in 1978. Hailey's grandchildren include Paul Hailey and Emma Hailey and Charlotte Hailey who are students in Northern California. He also has another grandchild named Ryan Hailey, a talented young bass player and vocalist in a San Francisco band Erogenous Jones, a trio known for writing witty, sardonic lyrics.