Marrachech课文总结.ppt

1、A,1,Marrakech,A,2,Outline,Background information,Types of writting,The analysis of text,Figures of speech,Writting techniques,Theme of this text,A,3,Marrakech,the third biggest city of Morocco and the political centre of south Morocco the city wall was made of red stones in the past the weather is w

2、arm the Pearl of South Morocco,A,4,George Orwell(19031950), British novelist and essayist, was born in India. He is famous for his ironic and political novels. Main Works: Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Burmese Days (1934) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938) Animal Farm

3、 (1946) Dickens, Dali and Others (1946) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Shooting an elephant (1950),A,5,Exposition: describing things or telling people principle three description orders ：time order, space order and logic order.,Argumentation: reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or pro

4、posal the methodical process of logical reasoning,Narration: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events,A,6,Type of writing : Exposition In this passage, the author sets six examples to desc

5、ribe Marrakechs peoples poor and unenlightened life situation. (1)The poor funeral . (2)A poor worker beg for a piece of bread. (3)Jews life situation in the city . (4)Simple and the crude way of farming. (5)A thin and short old woman overloaded firewood. (6)There were black infantry.,A,7,A,8,Scene

6、1: The burial of the poor inhabitants (Para. 1-3),Life is cheap. People are so poor that they can not afford proper burials.,supporting details,the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud but they came back in a few minutes later. shows the unsanitary conditions of the city, poor,the taxis and th

7、e camels modern transportation the old and backward transportation,wailing a short chant hack an oblong hole dump the bodyfling over it a little of the dried-up earth quick speed and simple burying procedure,Are they really? Do they ? Or are they ? rhetorical questions added force to authors denunci

8、ation(谴责),They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve sink back into the nameless showing the monotonous(乏味的) life,A,9,All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact. (Para. 3),What does it mean?,It is the colonial empires that make the people so poor. Empires are built up by treat

9、ing the people in the colonies like animals. (by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings).,exposes the evils of imperialism（帝国主义）,Question one,A,10,Question two,“What really appeals to the flies is that the corpses here are never put into coffins, they are merely wrapped in a piece o

10、f rag and carried on a rough wooden bier on the shoulders of four friends.”,What is the tense ？,Vividness and authenticity,The situation described still exists,Dramatic present,A,11,Scene 2: The begging of bread of an employee (Para. 4-7),Life is poor. People cant afford proper food,I could eat some

11、 of that bread. an indirect request and expresses a desire to eat some . The word “could” suggests politeness and uncertainty. I took off a piece and he stowed it gratefully in some secret place under his rags. The word “stow” and “secret” show that the navy looks at the piece of bread as something

12、precious. He is afraid of loosing it. This man is an employee of the municipality. “Even an employed laborer goes starving, so you can imagine the plight of the poorer people.,A,12,Scene 3:Jews condition in Marrakech (Para.8-15),1.sore-eyed children 2.clouds of flies 3.a little river of urine,1.long

13、 black robe 2.little skull-cap 3.dark fly- infested 4.like caves,Malnutrition, dirty, a large quantity,bad working condition,A,13,1.dark holes 2.clamoring for cigarettes 3.working more than 12 hours a day,Suffer exploitation,Invisible in the field,the same color as earth less interesting to look at,

14、Jew,Arab,European,A,14,Scene4: The way of ploughing in Morocco (Para.16-18),1.tear up weeds with their hands 2.a wretched wooden thing 3.plough with a cow and a donkey 4.no harrows,exotic,Camels ,castles, palm trees,backward ploughing,People in Morocco lived in a backward and hard life.,A,15,Scene5:

15、The old women carrying firewood (Para.19-21),mummified tiny,shrill wail scream violate a law of nature,hobbled following on foot carrying baggage,hard life situation,poverty get used to it,invisibility gender discrimination,1.the evil of exploitation 2.the crulty of colonists and imperialists,A,16,s

16、cene5 The old women carrying firewood,question 1 the firewood 2 the color of women 3 mummified,why are the women almost invisible?,A,17,Moroccan donkey,St.bernard dog,A,18,the contrast between donkey and Bernard dog,A,19,Scene6:The black infantry(Para.22-26),1.they slumped under the weight of packs

17、2.faces were glistening with weat,difficult life,the opression(压迫) of the colonies,A,20,Infantry,Storks (colonist),contrast,north white high,south black low,A,21,no hostility no sullen no inquisitiveness,they think the white rice are the master,wide-eyed Negro look profound respect,expose the fact t

18、hat colonists enslave the inhabitants,the look,on the contrary,A,22,.,while the great birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.,一切反动派都是纸老虎！,strongly against colonialism,A,23,Figures of speech (1),Alliteration: refers to the repetition of a particular sound i

19、n the first syllables of a series of words or phrases E.g.: they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into poor life,A,24,Figures of speech (2),Synecdoche: a part is used for the whole , the whole for a part , the specific for the general , the general for the specific , or the

20、material for the thing made from it . E.g. one day a poor creature who could not have been more than four feet tall human being,A,25,Figures of speech (3),Metonymy: one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. e.g. a white skin white people Simile :two essentially unlike things a