高级英语(第三版)第一册第十一课-The-Way-to-Rainy-Mountain课件.ppt
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1、高级英语(第三版)第一册第十一课 The Way to Rainy MountainA Short Introduction “The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)” is a book by Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday. It is about the journey of Momadays Kiowa ancestors from their ancient beginnings in the Montana area to their final war and surrender to the
2、 United States Cavalry at Fort Sill, and subsequent resettlement near Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma. The book is divided into three main parts: The Setting Out, which consists of early Kiowa legends and anthropological studies on the Kiowa people. The second part, The Going On, continues with the theme o
3、f Kiowa mythology, and discusses the origins of Tai-me and the Sun Dance Ritual. The last section, The Closing In, describes the end of the Kiowa golden age has a lot to do with the death of the Kiowa culture.Teaching Objectives1. To understand the authors special racial identity 2. To learn the his
4、tory of his Kiowa, to widen our knowledge of the Native Americans. 3. To appreciate this prose. Structure of the TextPart I: Paras 1-3: introduction to the whole textPart III: Paras 11-14: the authors vivid memoryPart IV: Paras 15-16: the author reports his reflections on the exploration into the ch
5、erished memory of the Kiowa peoplePart II: Paras 4-10: the author explores the threestages of the Kiowa culture emergence, evolution and decline.Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 1 The topic sentence: The hardest weather in the world is there. In summer the prairie is an anvils edge In summer,
6、the earth of the prairie is extremely hot and hard. Anvil: a metaphor. An anvil is an iron on which metal objects are hammered into shape. The grass turns brittle and brown “brittle” and “brown” begin with the letter “b.” alliteration. great green-and-yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall g
7、rass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time. The grasshoppers on the plain are large and everywhere. When a grasshopper hops, it pops up like the growing corn in the fields, making a sudden, explosive movement to stin
8、g the flesh. Tortoises crawl about the red earth aimlessly in no hurry for they have all the time to themselves. Loneliness is an aspect of the land Loneliness is a major quality of this landscape. The author emphasizes loneliness, perhaps because this quality enables one to concentrate ones mind on
9、 the earth. There is no confusion of objects in the eye “eye” is used in the singular not to mean the concrete organ of the sight, but the power of seeing or observing. One hill or one tree or one man: The use of “one” instead of an indefinite article “a” emphasizes the fact that there is only one h
10、ill, only one tree or only one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. When you look upon the landscape in the early morning with the rising sun at your back, the objects you see may seem larger (or smaller) than they real
11、ly are. And the sense of proportion is about life, creation, and so it is a philosophical comment, not just about the physical. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation began. The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of
12、the whole universe was begun right here. Here the author capitalizes the word but omits the article “the,” perhaps to show that he is talking about the creating of the universe as a Kiowa imagines. Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 2 The author explains his purpose of his visit to Rainy Mountai
13、n: to be at his grandmothers grave. This paragraph serves as a transitional link between the description of the land in Paragraph 1 and the narration of his grandmothers and his peoples stories in the following paragraphs. I was told that in death her face was that of a child In death, she was peace
14、ful and free from all earthly worries and miseries. Her face looked like that of a child. Only in death can one return to childhood innocence and peacefulness. The word “child” is repeated in the next sentence of the next paragraph: I like to think of her as a child. Structurally the two paragraphs
15、are smoothly connected. In meaning, the author seems to say that life is but a cycleone begins as a child and ends like a child, and in death one returns to where one begins. Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 3 Paragraph 3 sums up the history of the Kiowa as a Plains Native tribethe golden time
16、 and the decline in their history. I like to think of her as a child. His grandmother was born (around 1880) at a time when the Kiowa were still living in their golden time or to be more exact, the last moment of their golden time. Starting from Paragraph 3, the author links his grandmother with the
17、 history of the Kiowa. Warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival. The Kiowa often fought just because they felt that war was sacred because it could demonstrate their courage and strength, because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit
18、, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. They never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry. The Kiowa never figured out why the U.S. Cavalry kept advancing toward them so cruelly and relentlessly. Wars we
19、re common among different Indian tribes. The cause of war was simple. They fought either for the simple necessity of survival or to display their bravery. When one side won a battle, they would typically stop advancing upon their defeated enemy but would celebrate their victory. Yet, the U.S. Cavalr
20、y seemed different. They never gave up advancing even when they won. This puzzled the Indians. The truth is that the U.S. Cavalry was sent to accompany and protect the non-Indian, mostly white, settlers. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but sh
21、e must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors. Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event. But she must have heard what had happened from her pa
22、rents and grandparents. Therefore she must have known the great pain and distress brought by defeat, and she must have seen how they had kept thinking about their defeat in a gloomy and hopeless way. Detailed Analysis of the TextParagraph 4 Paragraph 4 is mainly about how the Kiowa migrated from wes
23、tern Montana and how the migration transformed the Kiowa. Like Paragraph 3, this part uses the authors grandmothers story as a focal point, but quickly moves on to the story of the Kiowa people. The use of words like “she belonged to the last culture” and “her forebears” smoothes the transition. The
24、 last culture to evolve in North America Before the arrival of the Europeans, numerous native Indian cultures had existed for a long time in North America. Whose language has never been positively classifiedThe native Indian languages are classified mainly geographically, not linguistically. Perhaps
25、 because of the migration of the Kiowa, their language has never been definitely classified in any major group of the Native Indian languages. It was a long journey toward the dawn and it led to a golden age. They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new cul
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