MrBoggis s SecretPPT学习教案

1、会计学1 MrBoggis s Secret Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Although Roald Dahls parents were Norwegian, he was born and brought up in Great Britain, and has always written in English. He has lived and travel

2、led in many different countries and began writing short stories in the United States, during the Second World War. As a writer, Dahl has concentrated on short stories and become a very distinguished craftsman able to write stories which are often very amusing but at the same time also involving an u

3、nexpected and bizarre twist of events. 第1页/共8页 Summary One day,Mr.Boggis drove to the country.His car broke down near a farmhouse in the middle of the journey.In order to fix the car,he asked for a jug of water from the woman of the building. When he was waiting for her to fetch it,he was attracted

4、by two chairs,which in his eyes were worth at least a thousand pounds.So he made up his mind to buy them and bargained with the woman.In the end Mr.Boggis bought the chairs for something less than a twentieth of their value.This lucky deal inspired Mr.Boggis.He came up with a good idea.If he could d

5、ress himself up like a parson,going out for a labor of love for making an inventory of antique for a local meseum,he would be able to search every English farmhouse around London for what he wanted. 第2页/共8页 Good God, he thought. This thing is late fifteenth century! He poked his head in further thro

6、ugh the door, and there, by heavens, was another of them on the other side of the fireplace! He couldnt be sure, And oh, what beauties they were! When the woman returned, Mr. Boggis introduced himself and straight away ask if she would like to sell her chairs. They werent really so very old, Mr. Bog

7、gis told her, and they wouldnt be at all easy to sell, 第3页/共8页 Parsons Pleasure The text is adapted from Parsons Pleasure.Parsons Pleasure is a short story written by Roald Dahl, first published in the April 1958 issue of Esquire. It is included in Dahls 1960 short story collection Kiss Kiss.In Pars

8、ons Pleasure there are very amusing and excellently written passages of prose, and gradually the reader becomes completely absorbed by the devious Mr Boggiss attempt to persuade the apparently ignorant farmers to part with their extremely valuable commode for almost nothing. 第4页/共8页 Plot summary Cyr

9、il Boggis is an antiques dealer based in a small shop in Chelsea, London. He manages to make a profit each year by buying valuable furniture cheaply from unsuspecting country people while posing as a clergyman, and president of the Society for the Preservation of Rare Furniture. In order to buy the

10、furniture for less than its worth he uses his knowledge and a plethora of tricks such as substituting genuine old screws for machine-made ones. One day,Mr.Boggis finds an original Chippendale commode surely worth ten thousands pounds!So he has to buy it as cheaply as possible to drive home and he wo

11、uld be rich.But thats not easy.He thinks the owners may be ignorant,but they are not stupid.He spares no effort to show the owners that this commode is a rather cheap reproduction and the owners become very fascinated.Finally,he manages to get the commode for twenty pounds.Very happy he walks to his

12、 car,which is some way off.Meanwhile,the three owners of the commode are discussing.They think it will not go into his car and are afraid that he will not buy it then.They remember that the parson told them that he only wants to use the legs and that the rest is only firewood.So they cut off the leg

13、s and finally attack the legless carcass of the commode with the axe. 第5页/共8页 Elements of irony: Elements of irony: This novel gives an unexpected ending at last.And the sentece these people may be ignorant, but they are not stupid! will become very true at the end of the story! It is ignorant that

14、the three owners sell the Commode for twenty pounds but they are not stupid although they dont realise it: They destroy it so that Boggis doesnt have any advantage either! There was no point in calling on the prosperous. This remark of Boggis is significant in the context of the story as a whole. He said it and now he has to do it. He wanted to become rich and now he isnt. Now he has to live without this prosperous. The novel reaches its climax in