高英精读6lesson9 the bluest eyeppt课件

1、.,Members: 华吉琰 陈冰静 吴海静 单玲红 莫颜琦 王玲玲,.,They come from Mobile, Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Meridian. And the sounds of these places in their mouth makes you think of love. All the places the author mentioned have one thing in common: they are all towns in deep south, where slavery and

2、 plantation existed before the civil war. The setting of the novel is an industrial town, which is in the Midwest and different from the deep south.,.,2.And the sounds of these places in their mouths make you think of love. When the brown girls pronounce the names of these places, they are full of a

3、ffection and make other people associate these places with love.,.,3. They say “Aiken” and you see a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing. 1)glance off: to hit a surface at an angle and then move away from it in another direction 斜飞，擦过 2)a white butterfly glance off a fence with a tor

4、n wing: Here the author uses a butterfly with a torn wing as a metaphor, meaning fragile beauty. 3)The implied meaning is that life in the Deep South seemed romantic and filled them with sentimental nostalgia, although life there was not easy.,.,but you love what happens to the air when they open th

5、eir lips and let the names ease out. That means they say those names in a very gentle and tender manner. They were proud of their origin.,.,Perhaps because they dont have home towns, just places where they were born. Why? (1)This perhaps because they only have places of birth, but not places they fe

6、el at home and which they identify themselves with. (2)America is a moving society in which people tend to move around instead of staying in one place.,.,hometown,America Hometown may not be a place where one is born, It is a place of personal experience. A place where one feels most at home and whi

7、ch one identifies with most.,China hometown is one place of birth or ones ancestral place with along with ones family and culture root.,VS,.,But these girls soak up the juice of their home towns, and it never leaves them. Juice: the essence of everything. (slang) power and influence Soak up: 吸收，摄取 B

8、ut these girls are strongly influenced by their hometown and the influence stays with them forever even they leave their hometown.,.,Hollyhock simile,.,They have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the color of the sky. 他们的眼睛可以根据天空的颜色判断是什么时间了。,.,They have put in the window the cardboa

9、rd sign that has a pound measure printed on each of three edges-10 1bs., 251bs., 50 1bs.-and No ICE on the fourth. In those days, when refrigerators were not available, icebox were used for keeping food cool. Every day, the iceman would come to sell or deliver ice.,.,These particular brown girls fro

10、m Mobile and Aiken are not like some of their sisters. In a small town, the black people usually live close together within a few blocks in a neighborhood. They have a strong sense of the neighborhood, or the community. The women call one another “sister.” The brown girls from places like Mobile and

11、 Aiken are different from and feel superior to the other girls of their own race.,.,They are not fretful, nervous, or shrill; they do not have lovely black necks that stretch as though against an invisible collar; their eyes do not bite. These sugar-brown Mobile girls move through the streets withou

12、t a stir. 她们既不烦躁，也不焦虑；她们也没有漂亮的黑脖子在无形的衣领里伸展；她们的眼神并不咄咄逼人。这些红糖肤色的女孩在街上行走时悄然无声。,.,They are as sweet and plain as a buttercake. Irony, Comparison batter cake: a plain cake made of flour,sugar and butter. The author compares these brown girls to a battercake, describing them as being sweet but plain and o

13、rdinary, lacking special qualities.,.,Lifebuoy soap, Cashmere Bouquet talc, Jergens Lotion, These are all toilet articles that cost more and represent prestige, and are used by the middle-class white people. These brown girls try to imitate the middle-class white people according the standards of be

14、auty set by the dominant culture.,.,.,Cashmere Bouquet talc Dixie Peach pomada(润发油),.,They straighten their hair with Dixie Peach, and part it on the side. Some black people try to alter their appearance and look more like white people because they are told that white is beautiful while black is ugl

15、y. So, they whiten the skin, or have surgery that makes the nose narrower and higher or straighten their hair and maybe dye it blond.,.,They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex “nookey.” Drinking, smoking and swearing are considered to be bad behavior. Therefore these brown girls

16、dont drink, smoke or swear. They still think sex is vulgar vlg a.粗野的，下流的；and indecent indi:snta.不适当的；猥亵的. This is another example showing how the brown girls try to meet the conventional puritanical codes of moral conduct.,.,They sing second soprano in the choir, and although their voices are clear

17、and steady, they are never picked to solo. A choir of a black church is quite different from a choir of a white church. The former is much more lively and sings with passion. Although voices are clear and steady, the brown girls in our story can only sing the second not the first soprano, not picked

18、 to perform a solo because the solo performer, who plays the leading role in the choir, should have not only a good voice, but also great passion. The brown girls may have the former but not the latter.,.,They go to land-grant colleges, normal schools, and learn how to do the white mans work with re

19、finement College: The body of faculty and students of a college An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university British slang for prison A complex of buildings in which a college is housed Normal School: To brown people , the normal school is sim

20、ilar to the vocational school where they learn the skills not the knowledge school . The history of education develoment of black people,Para.3,.,During the slavery , it is committing a crime when black people are reading and writing . After the civil war , there are some primary school in the sourt

21、h , but the white people take the action of racial segregation and persecute the black people . After the right movememt of black in 50s-60s , the racial segregation is canceled. In the law , every black people have the right to gain the education. Still now, there is no chance for black people to g

22、et education equally. In the public school, the equipment is worse . The teacher is worse . The enviroment is worse. Because most black students are here,.,Acrooding to a report, in America, there are 12.7 % black people, but only 2.7 %, 1.1 %, 1.8 % who had the master, professor and doctor are blac

23、k people . It seems that in the area of science and technology, black engineer and scientist is very few. Another report, in America, 84% youth have the diploma of secondary school, but in black people, 40% have not finish the primary school. The rate of illiterycy is up to 30%.,Racial prejudice mak

24、e the black and the mixed- blood stay in the original place, making those people who are stuggling hard lose the dream and moral . Thus the morbidity come into being in their heart. Thus they are in depression. When in depression, it is possible for everything to happen.,.,home economics to prepare

25、his food; teacher education to instruct black children in obedience; music to soothe the weary master and entertain his blunted soul,Parallel construction,ellipsis,Function *Strength the momentum and sense of rhythm of language *make the writing more logic *express the strong feelings,.,2)home econo

26、mics: a science and art of homemaking, including nutrition, clothing, budgeting, and child care As these brown girls are from relatively better-off families, they receive more education than the worse-off blacks. They usually go to land-grant colleges or normal schools where teachers are trained. Th

27、e purpose of their education is to prepare them to serve the white man with refinement. They major in home economics to do housekeeping for their masters. They are educated to be teachers so that they will teach the black children to be obedient. They are trained in music in order to entertain the w

28、hite masters.,.,她们就读于政府拨地建造的大学以及师范学院。他们学习如何把为白人服务的工作做得更细致：学家政是为了给他们烧饭做菜；学当老师是为了教育黑人孩子顺从；学音乐是为了让疲惫的主人身心放松，为他那已麻木的灵魂提供消遣。,.,Here they learn the rest of the lesson begun in those soft houses with porch swings and pots of bleeding heart: how to behave. The careful development of thrift, patience ,high m

29、orals, and good manners.,其余的课程是在摆放摇椅和盆栽荷包牡丹的温暖的家中完成的，即学习如何做到举止得当。她们认真培养节俭，耐心，高贵的道德品质和良好的礼貌举止。,Postposition attribute,ellipsis,The education they receive at home and at school helps them with a careful development of patience, high morals, and good manners.,Para.3,.,In short, how to get rid of the fu

30、nkiness. The dreadful funkiness of passion, the funkiness of nature, the funkiness of the wide range of human emotions.,In short, the whole purpose of their education is to get rid of the funkiness.,.,*funkiness: Funky has several meanings. It is associated with a jazz style having an earthy quality

31、 derived from early blues or gospel music. It may mean unconventional, emotional, informal, relaxed, casual, etc. Funk is associated with spontaneity and sensuality. A number of Chinese terms may be applied to describe funky:自然原始的，朴实的，本性的，感官的，非传统的，奇特的，无拘束的，非正式的，即兴的，随意的.,.,dreadful: in the eyes of th

32、e middle-class white people and in the eyes of the brown girls, the funkiness of passion, nature and a wide range of human emotions is dreadful. Therefore, “ wherever it erupts” they “wipe it away.”,.,question are the passion,nature and human emotion dreadful,.,It is not dreadful , in fact , it is n

33、ormal and beautiful as the charact er of human being s. Without that , black people are not human beings . More exactly, we can call them the mechine just like the robot without the expression such as happy and angry. It is the crafty plot made by white . The aim is to destroy the humanity of black

34、people to seveice them forever.,.,Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away; where it crusts, they dissolve it; wherever it drips, flowers, or clings, they find it and fight it until it dies.all the way to the grave. Funk: a state of nervous depression There is a anthropopathic effect, let re

35、ader consider it as the enemy who is real exist in the world . The brown girls try hard to repress their emotions and passions. However, these natural human emotions cannot be wiped out totally. Sometimes they will emerge and burst out. And they will develop, become stronger and stay with them. So w

36、henever and wherever this funk bursts out, the brown girls will do their best to stifle it. Then it emerges again, and they will kill it again. The brown girls have to fight the battle constantly all their lives because funkiness comes back naturally.,Para.4,.,无论这种低俗在哪里显现，她们都有去处它；无论在哪刚出现，她们都要将其化为乌有；

37、无论它在哪里显露、发展、依附，她们都会找到它并一直战斗到它不复存在。她们终身都要与之奋斗。,.,The laugh that is too loud; the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous. They make sure that they dont laugh too loudly, dont speak with their mouths opened too round, and dont make too generous gestures. They hold their behin

38、d in for fear of a sway too free; 1)behind: (Informal) bottom, buttocks 2) for fear of a sway too free: If a woman walks with a free sway, moving her buttocks from side to side too much, she will be considered to be sexy.,.,when they wear lipstick, they never cover the entire mouth for fear of lips

39、too thick, and they worry, worry, worry about the edges of their hair. As they have thick lips, the brown girls try to make their lips appear not so thick by covering only part of their lips with lipstick. What worries them most is their hair, which curls up at the edges. In Paragraph 2, we see the

40、brown girls straighten their hair with Dixie Peach, and part it on the side like white girls.,.,笑声不能太大；说话时嘴不能张的太圆；举止不能太夸张；走路时要收紧臀部，以免过于招摇；涂口红时不能涂满整个嘴唇，以免显得过厚；她们还要非常非常担心自己的发际。,.,From this picture, we can see this dress obviously limited the freedom of movement . The hair require you to stay quite . I

41、n fact, this is also the standard for chinese lady in ancient. They are beautiful vase to dress the whole house and show the wealth of man , such as her father or husband . In some degree, they are same. The brown girl is just the beautiful equipment for white to control the black people. They are n

42、ot exsiting for themselves.,.,This paragraph tells us although these brown girls never seem to have boy friends; they always marry and become good housewives. Several examples are given to show that these women are good at housekeeping. Note that the author begins to shift the plural “they”to the si

43、ngular “she“ in this paragraph, preparing for talking about one of such girls named Geraldine from Paragraph 10.,Para 5 .,.,There will be pretty paper flowers decorating the picture of his mother. The paper flowers imply that these girls way of life is not natural but artificial, in contrast to the

44、funk.,.,. that their Sunday shirts will billow on hangers from the door jamb, stiffly starched and white. On Sundays, people go to church in their Sunday best. Men usually wear white shirts. In the morning, the wife gets the husbands white shirt ready. She has starched it stiff and put it on hangers

45、 on the door jamb for the husband to put on before going to church.,.,她们似乎从交过男朋友，但总是要结婚的。有些人关注这些女孩，因为他们知道，如果把这样的女孩娶回家，他们会睡在雪白的床单上，这些床单会拿到室外杜松灌木丛上晾干并且用大熨斗熨平。他们母亲的相片会用漂亮的纸花来装饰，前厅会放一本大开的本的圣经。这些会让他们感到安全舒心。他们知道他们的工作服会在星期一补好，洗净，熨平，他们星期日所穿的衬衫会在门框上的衣挂上迎风招展，洗的洁白而且已经浆过。他们看着她们的手便知道她们要做什么样的饼干，他们能够闻到咖啡香和烤火腿的味道，上

46、面还有裹着少量的白色熏谷粒。她的臀部使他们确信她可以让孩子顺利出生。他们是对的。,paragraph 6,What does the author tell us in Paragraphs 6,What men do not know is that the brown girl will make her home her own inviolable world against any outsider, even against her husband. She runs the house in her own way. Although she keeps the house cl

47、ean and tidy, she does not give it any warmth,Para.6,Para.6,1.What they do not know is that this plain brown girl will build her nest stick by stick, - and stand guard over its every plant, weed, and doily, even against him.,Visible,Invisible,The brown girl can keep the house clean and tidy and bear

48、 children easily.,The brown girl will build her nest bit by bit and defend it as her own fortress world without any warmth.,(1) What they do not know is linked with the last senten-ce of the previous paragraph. Although they are right in thi-nking that the brown girl can keep the house well and bear

49、 children easily, they do not know the brown girl will build her nest bit by bit and defend it as her own fortress world.,(2) 他们有所不知的是,这个相貌平常,褐色皮肤的女孩将一点一点地筑起她的小巢,把家变成她自己的,不可侵犯的小天地. 她守护着家里的一草一木,甚至对她的丈夫都有所防范.,Para.6,A sidelong look will be enough to tell him to smoke on the back porch ,(1) She loves c

50、leanness and does not allow smoking in her house. She has so much authority in the home that a sideways look will be enough to tell him to smoke on the back porch,(2) 她只需斜眼看他一下,他就知道该到房后的走廊上去抽烟.,Para.6,2.Nor do they know that she will give her body sparingly and partially. Cause and effect,Define sex

51、 as vulgar and indecent.,Not enjoy normal sexual life thoroughly and wholly but restrain herself in making love with her husband.,Cause,Effect,.,Para.7 In this paragraph, the author describes how a cat engages the girls affection. In her womanhood, she rejects herself as normal sensual experience. S

52、o she only can find occasional sensual delight in a cat.,.,Occasionally some living thing will engage her affections occasionally:brutal word living: In Paragraphs 5 and 6 we see the brown girl takes good care of everything in the house. She stands guard over its every plant, weed, and doily. But no

53、ne of them are warm and alive. Occasionally some living thing, a cat, will engage her affections engage:occupy,.,A cat, perhaps, who will love her order, precision, and constancy; who will be as clean ans quiet as she is. precision: the quality or state of being precise,exactness constancy: a state

54、of being constant or unchanging feminist (not only pertinent with confliction between Black and White) the angle in the house :be sympothetic;be tender. never has a mind or wish of her own a sympathetic lady order ;precision;constancy : what the life requirs she to be clean quiet; Life compels her to be a fine lady with decent behaviors in that way they may get ideal position which seems only to be an illusion .,.,The cat will settle quietly on the windowsill and caress her with his eyes. caress:treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or