Young-adult fiction：week(13)

• Joyce Carol Oates  life and work 

• where are you going, where have you been?

• 採用 open end 
• is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates.  It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4, 1966. Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she had been inspired to write it after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

• Paul's Case(點入連結)  by Willa Cather

•  Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – , 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.

• O Pioneers! 

''We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.''  

                                                                          Part V, Ch. 3

• 女性主義 

       A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf.

• vocabulary 
  
  
  
  • high ─pitched 高調的
  
  
  • high ─portfolio 高調的
  
  
  
  • porfolio (n)講義夾；投資組合
  
  
  
  • deterred...from +V─ing 延遲...做某事
  
  
  
  • reveal (v.)顯現
  
  
  • suggest(v.)顯現
  
  
  
  • irrevocably(adv.) 不須言語地
  
  
  • jalopy(n.) a decrepit car is often old and  neglected and is in a barely functional state.