中南大学读写译4unit5.ppt

Choose to Be Alone on PurposePara1-10  Book 4 Unit 5 ------made by 土木1308柏志鹏 Structure Analysis Main idea of the text ? The reading passage focuses on a social phenomenon — choosing to be alone on purpose. The passage mainly tells us: what living alone is, what people think of living alone, who prefer living alone, the author’s comments on living alone and what he advises for living in solitude. Structure Analysis We can know that this article can be divided into three parts: Part1: (para.1)Living alone – a common social phenomenon. Part2: (para.2)What do people think of living alone? Structure Analysis Part3: (para.3-10): The author mentions 3 famous literary giants who choose to be alone and tells us what message we can draw from the people who choose to be alone. The writing methods 1.List: Some of us liking it that way and some of us not. Some of us divorced, some windowed, some never yet committed.(Para1) Effect: The writing methods 2.Give an example: Thoreau, alone in his cabin on the pond, his back deliberately turned to the town. Now, that’s the character for you.(Para.2) Consider Dorothy Wordsworth, for instance, helping her brother William put on his coat, finding his notebook and pencil for him, and waving as he sets forth into the early spring sunlight to look at flowers all by himself.’ How graceful, how benign is solitude,’ he wrote.(Para.4) The writing methods 3.Associate Thoreau had his own self-importance for company. Perhaps there’s a message here. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest and humble we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.(Para.10) The writing methods 4.Details—description Actually, he lived in a mile, or 20 minutes’ walk, from his nearest neighbour, half a mile from the railroad; three hundred yards from a busy road. He had company in and out of the hut all day, asking him how he could possibly be so noble(Para,9)