10. to have one's eyes covered with cloth or bandage 11. to turn or balance on a central point 12. painful with a stinging pain 13. a coin of copper or bronze 14. (ArnE infml ) an American banknote printed in green ink on the back 15. function and duty 16. a particular type of product, made by one company


二、课后练习
I. Vocabulary A. Look up the following words and phrases. 1. someone who looks very strange or behaves in a very unusual way; sth. in nature, such as a strangely-shaped plant or animal, that is very unusual 2. sth. used to reduce or block light, usu. a piece of cloth or heavy paper on a spring roller, with a pull to lower and raise it 3. sth that causes trouble.

4. old-fashioned American English, meaning an informal social gathering only for men 5. a fight involving several or many contestants; a disorganized, violent fight 6. someone who is responsible for all the organizations that stop fires burning in a city or area 7. someone who is in charge of all the schools in a particular area in the US 8. a round roof on a base like a circle 9. to give sb. very strong emotions


For one thing, in this chapter, as Ellison himself said, "The boys are blindfolded and forced to fight each other for the amusement of the white observers. " The blacks were treated with utter contempt and hatred. The scene is symbolic of the place of all American black people in the whitedominated rst-person narration is used in this chapter. "I" is the narrator, not the author, of the story. This narrator is at the same time, the protagonist. This immediate and compelling quality of the firstperson narration enables the reader to follow the action of the story closely as if it were taking place before his eyes. It can also allow the reader to know what is going on in the mind of the narrator. The first-person narration helps to achieve the artistic effect in the description of the battle royal. In addition, this novel is an account of the boy' s journey from ignorance to enlightenment as he searches for his self-identity. Most of the activities inevitably become psychological, and therefore the first person narration creates authenticity.
第七课
一、课文短语
二、课后练习

一、课文短语




to be in the cards to seem likely to happen even if the two parties do sit down together, a stormy stalemate is in the cards. • to drop one's guard to forget to be careful seeing the goalkeeper dropping his guard. Jack seized the occasion and kicked a goal. to knock out to make unconscious the driver of the car was knocked out at the moment of impact and could remember nothing of the circumstances of the accident.


4. Both at the beginning and at the end of the story, the narrator talks about his grandfather. What he.said puzzles the narrator and it haunts him at every important moments in his life. He was guilty of treachery like his grandfather whenever things went well for him. In addition, as an ancestor, the grandfather was like any ancestor in black American writers ' novels. As Toni Morrison once put "there is always an elder there. And these ancestors are not just parents? they are sort of timeless people whose relationship to the characters are benevolent, instructive, and protective, and they provide a certain kind of wisdom. " It is valid that the narrator came to his realization with the gradual understanding of what the grandfather said.
to leave off to desist from; to break off; to stop the rain left off at daybreak. to leave out to neglect; to put in Not a comma was left out. to pick up to catch sight of; to discover or receive by ear • The aircraft pilots picked up signals from a radio beacon.

IV. Questions (Appreciation) 1. The chapter begins with "it goes a long way back, some twenty years', showing the following parts are his reflection of the past. In the first paragraph, the main idea of searching for identity is conveyed by "I was looking for myself" and "I am nobody but myself. What happens in the battle royal is related to the central idea.

For a third, in this battle royal he i.s isolated from both the white and the black, and the reflection of his dilemma is recurring later in his search for identity.
2. The story begins with a flashback paragraph. By saying "it goes a long way back, some twenty years", the author tells the reader that the story took place in the past. It shows that the narrator has reached a certain stage of his life when he deems it necessary to look back at a past event that was meaningful to him. Moreover, it shows that his account of the past experience will be more mature and objective.