英语泛读I_文学名著简介及选读_6_A Christmas Carol_Students1599 Paper_英语泛读advertising
英语泛读I_文学名著简介及选读_6_A Christmas Carol_Students1599 Paper由刀豆文库小编整理，希望给你工作、学习、生活带来方便，猜你可能喜欢“英语泛读advertising”。
English Reading I_Literary Masterpiece 1st Semester, 1st School Year Name______________
Cla______________
Student Number______________ English Reading I_Literary Masterpiece_A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Work title: Author: Year of publication: Background: A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 A Christmas Carol by English author Charles Dickens was written and published in early Victorian era Britain, a period when there was both strong nostalgia(怀旧)for old Christmas traditions and an initiation(开始)of new practices such as Christmas trees and greeting cards.Dickens’s sources for the tale appear to be many and varied but are principally the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.Characters in the novel include:
Ebenezer Scrooge: chief character, a miser(吝啬鬼);
Jacob Marley: Ebenezer Scrooge’s busine partner, dead for seven years;Fred: Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew, son of Ebenezer Scrooge’s sister Fan;Bob Cratchit: Ebenezer Scrooge’s clerk;Tiny Tim: Bob’s son;Ghost of Christmas Past;Ghost of Christmas Present;
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.The recording, including three episodes(断，集), is a simplified version of the original novel.Plot summary: The tale begins on a cold Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge’s busine partner, Jacob Marley.Scrooge hates Christmas, calling it “humbug”, refuses his nephew Fred’s dinner invitation, and rudely turns away two gentlemen who seek a donation from him to provide a Christmas dinner for the Poor.His only “Christmas gift” is allowing his overworked clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off with pay.Returning home that evening, Scrooge is visited by Marley’s ghost.Marley warns Scrooge to change his ways or he will undergo the same miserable afterlife as himself.Scrooge is then visited by three additional ghosts who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation(改变).The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of his boyhood and youth, which stir Scrooge’s gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent.They also show what made Scrooge the miser that he is, and why he dislikes Christmas.The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to the family feast of Scrooge’s impoverished(穷困的)clerk Bob Cratchit, introducing his youngest son, Tiny Tim, who is seriously ill English Reading I_Literary Masterpiece 1st Semester, 1st School Year Name______________
Cla______________
Student Number______________ but cannot receive treatment due to Scrooge’s unwillingne to pay Cratchit a good wage.The ghost also leads Scrooge to see his nephew’s party.The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, troubles Scrooge with sad visions of the future that may come to pa if he does not learn and act upon what he has seen.These visions include Tiny Tim’s death, and scenes related to Scrooge’s own death, including a conversation among busine aociates who will only attend the funeral if a lunch is provided.Scrooge’s own neglected and untended grave is then revealed, prompting the miser to decide that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these “shadows of what may be”.Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning with joy and love in his heart, then spends the day with his nephew’s family after anonymously sending a turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas dinner.Scrooge has become a different man overnight and now treats his fellow men with kindne, generosity and compaion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit of Christmas.The story closes with the narrator confirming the validity, completene and permanence(永久)of Scrooge’s transformation.(about 400 words)
Topic for discuion: what do you think is/are the theme(s)of the novel A Christmas Carol?
Reader’s task: write a summary for each of the episode in the recording.Episode 1:
Episode 2:
Episode 3:
