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Theme
• The story praises the simplicity of Maggie and her mother, along with their allegiance (忠诚) to their specific family identity (身份) and folk heritage (民族传统) as well as their refusal to change at the whim (一时的 兴致) of an outside world that doesn’t really have much to do with them.
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Homework
• (2-2) Words and Expressions: • Ex IV (Word replacement) • Ex IX (crop, put, keep, bring, hang, hand,
style, stick, carry) • Ex XII (C-E translation)
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Homework
• (1) Reading Comprehension: • Ex I (Questions) • Ex II (Paraphrase) • Ex III (E-C translation)
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Homework
• (2-1) Words and Expressions: • Refer to “word list.doc”
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Theme
• “Everyday Use”, a story addresses itself to (针对…而写) the dilemma of African Americans who,
作赏析,2000(2
• Theme: • 赵莉华.逃避伤痛文化，寻根非洲文化：从
艾利斯·沃克的《外婆的日用家当》看美国 黑人文化认同.西华师范大学学报（哲学社 会科学版）.2005(4).
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Reading List for “Everyday Use”
• （1）刘英.被子与“遗产”：《日用家当》赏析.名作赏析,2000(2). • （2）赵莉华.逃避伤痛文化，寻根非洲文化：从艾利斯·沃克的《外婆
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Everyday Use (1973) A collection of stories by Alice Walker
A casebook (个案记录簿) devoted to tracing the derivation (来历) and elaborating the importance of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy (遗产) inherited by black Americans from their material (physical) ancestors.
(a) using languages (choice of words,
sentence structure, grammar) (Ex. XI) which
suit the background of characters (using many
elliptical and short, simple sentences (Ex. V) to
achieve certain effects),
(b) using animal image (Ex. X)
(c) through contrast (Maggie vs. Dee);
(2) shift of tense between past and present
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Requirement
的日用家当》看美国黑人文化认同.西华师范大学学报（哲学社会科学 版）.2005(4). • （3）Whitsitt, Sam. In Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”. African American Review. 2000, 34(3). • （4）Farrell, Susan. Fight vs. Flight: A Re-evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”. Studies in Short Fiction, 1998 (35). • （5）Tuten, Nancy. Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”. The Explicator, 1993. • （6）A Book Review on Critical Essays on Alice Walker.
Advanced English
Lesson Four
Everyday Use
for your grandmama
Alice Walker
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Requirement
• Learn to grasp the effective writing skills of a
short story:
(1) successful portrayal of characters,
• Understand the theme of the text • Get to know the author (Alice Walker) • Get to know some cultural
background of American blacks (history, tradition, religion, literature, art and music, politics, language)
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Homework
• (3) Character Analysis and Theme: • Assigned reading
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Assigned Reading
• Analysis of characters: • 划出描写三个女性人物的语句 • Mother (+Ex XI) • 刘英.被子与“遗产”:《日用家当》赏析.名