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Lvhong
English Department R-516
Lhong9904@yahoo.com
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Unit 9
? The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
?
? By Ursula Le Guin
Teaching Points
? I,Background knowledge
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text Analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions
I,Background Knowledge
? The Author
? Ursula K,Le Guin is one of the most
important and respected authors of science
fiction,
? --- 16 novels
? --- 4 collections of poetry
? --- 10 children's books
? --- several screenplays and more
Background Knowledge
? Ursula Kroeber,
? --- born on October 21,1929,
? --- Her father,Alfred Kroeber,was an
anthropologist,her mother,Theodora,a
writer of children's stories
? --- She has three children and two
grandchildren.
? ---She is considered a great author,but not a
particularly tall one
Background Knowledge
? She studied literature
? --- Bachelor of Arts degree at Radcliffe
? --- M.A,from Columbia university,in 1952,
? --- awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study in
France
? --- there she met Charles Le Guin,whom she
later married
? --- Mrs,Le Guin now lives in Portland,Oregon,
Background Knowledge
? The works:
? A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
? The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
? The Farthest Shore (1972)
? The Dispossessed (1974)
? The Beginning Place (1980)
Background Knowledge
? LeGuin said she has studied very little hard
science,"My science fiction tends to be
social science fiction," she said,"But I try
not to make mistakes."
Background Knowledge
? Her writing force us to re-examine many of
the things that we once took for granted.
? --- cities
? --- political structures
? --- social attitudes
? --- conventional ideas about life
Background Knowledge
? She uses science fiction to explore contemporary
issues.
? She explains why she likes the science fiction
form.
? She says:, Science fiction allows me to help
people get out of their cultural skins and into the
skins of other beings…in science fiction you are
often expected to get into the skin of another
person from another culture.”.
II,Introduction to the Passage
? Type of Writing:
? A piece of allegorical description
Introduction to the Passage
? The theme:
? What is the nature of happiness and on what
it depends?
Introduction to the Passage
? P.143
? Happiness is based on a just discrimination
of what is necessary,what is neither
necessary nor destructive,and what is
destructive.
Introduction to the Passage
? what is destructive?
? Monarchy
? Slavery
? Stock exchange
? Advertisement
? Secret police
? bomb
Introduction to the Passage
? what is neither necessary nor destructive?
? Central heating
? Subway trams
? Washing machines
? Beer
? Drug---drooz
? Devices not yet invented
Introduction to the Passage
? what is necessary?
? Beautiful city with avenues,green meadows
? Houses with red roofs gardens
? Citizens were not simple but happy
? Lives were not wretched
? Contentment of life
? Based on the suffering of the child
Introduction to the Passage
? --- The terrible justice of reality
? --- People accept it
Introduction to the Passage
? --- In the last para,The writer seems to have
some doubts about this.
? --- A few young boys and girls do not
accept Omelas and walk away from it.
Introduction to the Passage
? The last para.
? The writer puts forward the problem but
does not supply the answers.
Introduction to the Passage
? Why are they leaving Omelas?
? Who are these people?
? Where are they going?
? Are they frightened or dissatisfied with
Omelas?
? Are they going to found a new utopian city
not based on any misery or suffering?
Words and expressions
? a clamor of bells
? n.喧闹,叫嚷,大声的要求
? v.喧嚷,大声的要求
? clamorous
? adj,大喊大叫的
? clamorously
? adv.吵闹地,鼓躁地
Words and expressions
? swallow
? n.[鸟 ]燕子,吞咽,喉
? vt.咽,淹没,吞没,取消,忍受,轻信,压制,耗尽
? vi.吞下,咽下
? swallow-tail
? n,1.凤蝶 2.燕尾 3.燕尾服
? swallow-tailed coat
? n.燕尾服
Words and expressions
? swallow a camel
? 默忍难于置信 [容忍 ]的事
? swallow an insult
? 忍受侮辱,忍辱含垢
? swallow down
? 吞下
? swallow the bait
? v.上钩,上当
Words and expressions
? Puritanical [7pjuEri5tAnikEl]
? adj.清教徒的,严格的
? Puritan
? n.清教徒 adj.清教徒的
? puritanic
? adj.清教徒的,严格的
? Puritanism
? n.清教,清教徒主义
? puritanize
? v.(使 )成清教徒,象清教徒般地行动,(使 )举止严
谨
Words and expressions
? in communion with
? 与,..有联络,有共同利害关系
Words and expressions
? seep[si:p]
? v.渗出,渗漏
? seep in 渗入
Words and expressions
? Cobweb [5kCbweb]
? n.蜘蛛网,蛛丝
? cobwebbed
? 布满蛛网的； 蛛网状的
? cobwebbery
? n.蜘蛛网之形成,蜘蛛网之结构
? cobwebby
? adj,蛛网似的,蛛网密布的
Words and expressions
? imbecile[5imbisail,-si:l]
? adj.低能的,愚笨的,虚弱的
? n.低能者,痴呆,愚蠢的人
? imbecilic
? adj.低能的,愚笨的
? imbecility
? n.低能
III,Text Analysis
? 1,Uses of specific words
? --bright-towered,sparkled with flags,red
roofs,painted walls,burned with…
? 2,Variety of sentence structures
? 3,Using figurative language freely to make
ideas more vivid and forceful
IV,Rhetorical Devices
? 1,metaphor
? 2,analogies
? 3,repetition
? 4,balanced structures
? 5,ellipsis
? 6,rhetorical questions
Special Difficulties
? 1,Some terms
? 2,The use of topic sentences
? 3.The use of present tense and universal
statements
? 4,Paraphrasing some sentences
? 5,Identifying figures of speech
V,Questions
? 1,Describe the physical features of Omelas.
? 2,What are the people of Omelas like?
? 3,In what kind of a room is the child
imprisoned?
? 4,How do you understand happiness?
Lvhong
English Department R-516
Lhong9904@yahoo.com
82066873
Unit 9
? The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
?
? By Ursula Le Guin
Teaching Points
? I,Background knowledge
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text Analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions
I,Background Knowledge
? The Author
? Ursula K,Le Guin is one of the most
important and respected authors of science
fiction,
? --- 16 novels
? --- 4 collections of poetry
? --- 10 children's books
? --- several screenplays and more
Background Knowledge
? Ursula Kroeber,
? --- born on October 21,1929,
? --- Her father,Alfred Kroeber,was an
anthropologist,her mother,Theodora,a
writer of children's stories
? --- She has three children and two
grandchildren.
? ---She is considered a great author,but not a
particularly tall one
Background Knowledge
? She studied literature
? --- Bachelor of Arts degree at Radcliffe
? --- M.A,from Columbia university,in 1952,
? --- awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study in
France
? --- there she met Charles Le Guin,whom she
later married
? --- Mrs,Le Guin now lives in Portland,Oregon,
Background Knowledge
? The works:
? A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
? The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
? The Farthest Shore (1972)
? The Dispossessed (1974)
? The Beginning Place (1980)
Background Knowledge
? LeGuin said she has studied very little hard
science,"My science fiction tends to be
social science fiction," she said,"But I try
not to make mistakes."
Background Knowledge
? Her writing force us to re-examine many of
the things that we once took for granted.
? --- cities
? --- political structures
? --- social attitudes
? --- conventional ideas about life
Background Knowledge
? She uses science fiction to explore contemporary
issues.
? She explains why she likes the science fiction
form.
? She says:, Science fiction allows me to help
people get out of their cultural skins and into the
skins of other beings…in science fiction you are
often expected to get into the skin of another
person from another culture.”.
II,Introduction to the Passage
? Type of Writing:
? A piece of allegorical description
Introduction to the Passage
? The theme:
? What is the nature of happiness and on what
it depends?
Introduction to the Passage
? P.143
? Happiness is based on a just discrimination
of what is necessary,what is neither
necessary nor destructive,and what is
destructive.
Introduction to the Passage
? what is destructive?
? Monarchy
? Slavery
? Stock exchange
? Advertisement
? Secret police
? bomb
Introduction to the Passage
? what is neither necessary nor destructive?
? Central heating
? Subway trams
? Washing machines
? Beer
? Drug---drooz
? Devices not yet invented
Introduction to the Passage
? what is necessary?
? Beautiful city with avenues,green meadows
? Houses with red roofs gardens
? Citizens were not simple but happy
? Lives were not wretched
? Contentment of life
? Based on the suffering of the child
Introduction to the Passage
? --- The terrible justice of reality
? --- People accept it
Introduction to the Passage
? --- In the last para,The writer seems to have
some doubts about this.
? --- A few young boys and girls do not
accept Omelas and walk away from it.
Introduction to the Passage
? The last para.
? The writer puts forward the problem but
does not supply the answers.
Introduction to the Passage
? Why are they leaving Omelas?
? Who are these people?
? Where are they going?
? Are they frightened or dissatisfied with
Omelas?
? Are they going to found a new utopian city
not based on any misery or suffering?
Words and expressions
? a clamor of bells
? n.喧闹,叫嚷,大声的要求
? v.喧嚷,大声的要求
? clamorous
? adj,大喊大叫的
? clamorously
? adv.吵闹地,鼓躁地
Words and expressions
? swallow
? n.[鸟 ]燕子,吞咽,喉
? vt.咽,淹没,吞没,取消,忍受,轻信,压制,耗尽
? vi.吞下,咽下
? swallow-tail
? n,1.凤蝶 2.燕尾 3.燕尾服
? swallow-tailed coat
? n.燕尾服
Words and expressions
? swallow a camel
? 默忍难于置信 [容忍 ]的事
? swallow an insult
? 忍受侮辱,忍辱含垢
? swallow down
? 吞下
? swallow the bait
? v.上钩,上当
Words and expressions
? Puritanical [7pjuEri5tAnikEl]
? adj.清教徒的,严格的
? Puritan
? n.清教徒 adj.清教徒的
? puritanic
? adj.清教徒的,严格的
? Puritanism
? n.清教,清教徒主义
? puritanize
? v.(使 )成清教徒,象清教徒般地行动,(使 )举止严
谨
Words and expressions
? in communion with
? 与,..有联络,有共同利害关系
Words and expressions
? seep[si:p]
? v.渗出,渗漏
? seep in 渗入
Words and expressions
? Cobweb [5kCbweb]
? n.蜘蛛网,蛛丝
? cobwebbed
? 布满蛛网的； 蛛网状的
? cobwebbery
? n.蜘蛛网之形成,蜘蛛网之结构
? cobwebby
? adj,蛛网似的,蛛网密布的
Words and expressions
? imbecile[5imbisail,-si:l]
? adj.低能的,愚笨的,虚弱的
? n.低能者,痴呆,愚蠢的人
? imbecilic
? adj.低能的,愚笨的
? imbecility
? n.低能
III,Text Analysis
? 1,Uses of specific words
? --bright-towered,sparkled with flags,red
roofs,painted walls,burned with…
? 2,Variety of sentence structures
? 3,Using figurative language freely to make
ideas more vivid and forceful
IV,Rhetorical Devices
? 1,metaphor
? 2,analogies
? 3,repetition
? 4,balanced structures
? 5,ellipsis
? 6,rhetorical questions
Special Difficulties
? 1,Some terms
? 2,The use of topic sentences
? 3.The use of present tense and universal
statements
? 4,Paraphrasing some sentences
? 5,Identifying figures of speech
V,Questions
? 1,Describe the physical features of Omelas.
? 2,What are the people of Omelas like?
? 3,In what kind of a room is the child
imprisoned?
? 4,How do you understand happiness?
