Young-adult fiction：week(2)

• 英文寫作技巧

1. 破題句  (topic sentences)
2. 分線論述  (key word)
3. 舉例說明 (for example)

• The Catcher in the  Rye中 Holden 所讀的書籍及作家：

1. 《Out of Africa》 by  Isak Dinesen
2. 《Of Human Bondage》by William  Maugham
3. 《The Return of Native》by  Hardy, Thomas
4.    Ring Lardner,1885~1933. an American short story writer.

•  ''The mark of the immature man is that he wants to  die nobly for a cause,while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.'' ──  The Catcher in the  Rye,  p.188 ──

         是Holden最喜歡的老師Mrs.Antolini引用Wilhelm Stekel的名言。 

•  Wilhelm Stekel (March 18, 1868 – June 25, 1940) was an Austrian physician and psychologist.

      然而Mrs.Antolini 卻「make a pass at him」 ，使Holden的幻想真正破滅。Mrs.Antolini是出自於對”youth''的欣賞與渴慕，如同Death in Venice (by Thomas Mann)中Gustav von Aschenbach對美少年Tadzio的感受。他們皆渴望青春，渴望自身已逝去的那段美麗時光。

 

•      Samuel Ullman (April 13, 1840 – March 21, 1924) was an American businessman, poet, humanitarian. He is best known today for his poem Youth which was a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur.

•      有關The Catcher in the Rye的額外引用，除了老師上課提到過槍殺John Lennon的Mark David Chapman在案發地點閱讀The Catcher in the Rye直到他被逮捕外，我還發現一篇相當有趣的文章，在解析動畫《攻殼機動隊：S. A. C.》與The Catcher in the Rye的關聯。

      (三個霍爾頓──從麥田捕手到攻殼機動隊 http://blog.roodo.com/wolfhsu/archives/5366613.html)

 

• 單字、片語解釋

1.  foul language
2. prolific
3. farther
4. further
5. prostitute
6. hemisphere
7. elaborate
8. half─assed
9. alienated
10. icon