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Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage
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Lesson FourLesson Four
A Drink in the A Drink in the PassagePassage
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I. Video Show
II. Famous Lines from
Cry, the Beloved Country
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IV.IV. Famous Lines from Cry, the Famous Lines from Cry, the Beloved CountryBeloved Country
Cry, The Beloved Country is the famous African novel by Alan Paton. The story follows the journey a minister, who travels to the big city in search of his prodigal son. Cry, the Beloved Country is said to have been inspired (or influenced) by In a Province (1934). Alan Paton started the novel in 1946, and the book was finally published in 1948. Here are some famous lines from Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
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“One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 6 “In a land of fear this incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all that are in the house.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 22
IV.IV. Famous Lines from Cry, the Famous Lines from Cry, the Beloved CountryBeloved Country
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“I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 30 “But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 35 “Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 26
IV.IV. Famous Lines from Cry, the Famous Lines from Cry, the Beloved CountryBeloved Country
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“It is not permissible to add to one’s possessions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 20 “The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.”—Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, Chapter 21
IV.IV. Famous Lines from Cry, the Famous Lines from Cry, the Beloved CountryBeloved Country
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I. Author
II. His Works
III. Apartheid
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Alan Paton (1903-1988)
“I do not like to mention it
But there is a voice I cannot silence.”
—Paton
Paton, craggy old liberal, hater of and hated by aparthei
d, loved and unloved by the ANC, famous for Cry, the Bel
oved Country.
I.I. Author Author
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Alan Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He started his career by teaching at a school in Ixopo. The dramatic career change to director of a reformatory for black youths at Diepkloof, near Johannesburg, had a profound effect on his thinking. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) made him one of South Africa’s best known writers, and by the time he died, it had sold over 15 million copies. Following his non-racial ideals, he helped to found the South African Liberal Party and became its president.
I.I. Author Author
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II.II. His WorksHis WorksCry, the Beloved Country
Perhaps the most famous novel to come out of South Africa, Paton’s 1948 work brought to the notice of the world the dilemmas of ordinary South Africans living under an oppressive system, one which threatened to destroy their very humanity. Informed by Paton’s Christian and liberal beliefs, the novel tells of a rural Zulu parson’s heart-breaking search for his son, who has been drawn into the criminal underworld of the city. Cry, the Beloved Country has sold millions of copies around the world.
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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South Africa was colonized by the English and
Dutch in the 17th century. English domination of
the Dutch descendents (known as Boers or
Afrikaners) resulted in the Dutch establishing the
new colonies of Orange Free State and Transvaal.
The discovery of diamonds in these lands around
1900 resulted in an English invasion which sparked
the Boer War. Following independence from
England, an uneasy power-sharing between the two
groups held sway until the 1940’s, when the
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a strong
majority.
Strategists in the National Party invented
apartheid as a means to cement their control over
the economic and social system. Initially, aim of the
apartheid was to maintain white domination while
extending racial separation. Starting in the 1960s, a
plan of “Grand Apartheid” was executed,
emphasizing territorial separation and police
repression.
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning of “white-only” jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of mixed decent). The coloured category included
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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major subgroups of Indians and Asians.
Classification into these categories was based on
appearance, social acceptance, and descent. Non-
compliance with the race laws were dealt with
harshly. All blacks were required to carry “pass
books” containing fingerprints, photo and
information on access to non-black areas. In 1953,
the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law
Amendment Act were passed, which empowered the
government to declare stringent states of
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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emergency and increased penalties for protesting
against or supporting the repeal of a law. The
penalties included fines, imprisonment and
whippings. In 1960, a large group of blacks in
Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the
government declared a state of emergency. The
emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people
dead and 187 people wounded. Wielding the Public
Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act,
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the white regime had no intention of changing the
unjust laws of apartheid.
The penalties imposed on political protest, even
non-violent protest, were severe. During the states
of emergency which continued intermittently until
1989, anyone could be detained without a hearing
by a low-level police official for up to six months.
Thousands of individuals died in custody, frequently
after gruesome acts of torture. Those who were
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tried were sentenced to death, banished, or
imprisoned for life, like Nelson Mandela. The
apartheid policy was highly effective of
achieving its goal of preferential treatment for
whites, as is demonstrated by the statistics in
Figure 1.
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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III. ApartheidIII. Apartheid
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Plot: a well-educated black finds himself cordially
invited to split a bottle with a white man in
the passage of the latter’s apartment
building
Setting: social setting: Apartheid South Africa in
1960
story setting: in the passage
Protagonists: “I”—the black sculptor
Writing techniques: go to Writing Devices
Theme of the story: go to the next page
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Theme
The story tells us how racial prejudice can
prevent us reaching, touching and connecting
with each other. This invisible wall exists
between the white and the black and hampers
their free communication and full understanding.
It is not just a wall imposed by apartheid laws,
but a wall deeply rooted in their hearts.
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Part 1 (Paras. 1-6 ) about:
Part 2 (Paras. 7-76) about:
Structure
Against what
background and from
whom the story comes
How the story goes
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Now observe the following sentences carefully. What is the focus of narration? Then one night I was working late at the Herald, and when I came out there was hardly anyone in the streets, so I thought I’d go and see the window, and indulge certain pleasurable human feelings. I must have got a little lost in the contemplation of my own genius, because suddenly there was a young white man standing next to me. (Para. 9)
the first person point of view
Point of View
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Do you know what the other
types of narration are?What is point of view?
Point of view signifies the way a story gets
told—the mode (or modes) established by an
author by means of which the reader is
presented with the characters, dialogue, actions,
setting, and events which constitute the
narrative in a work of fiction.
Point of View
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This narrative mode limits the matter of the narrative to what the first-person narrator knows, experiences, infers, or can find out by talking to other characters. We distinguish between the narrative “I” who is only a fortuitous witness and auditor of the matters he relates (Marlow in Heart of Darkness); or who is a participant, but only a minor or peripheral one, in the story (Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby); or who is himself or herself the central character in the story (Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre).
The first person point of viewWhat is the first person
point of view?
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Now study the following paragraph. What is the
function of it?
He said to me. “This is the second cognac I’ve
had in my life. Would you like to hear the story of
how I had my first?” (Para. 6)
Do you know what flashback means?
This paragraph serves to introduce a flashback.
Flashback
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Can you come up with a story told in a flashback?
What is flashback?
Flashbacks are interpolated narratives or
scenes (often justified, or naturalized, as a
memory, a reverie, or a confession by one of the
characters) which represent events that
happened before the time at which the work
opened. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
(1949) and Ingmar Bergman’s film Wild
Strawberries make persistent and skillful use of
this device.
Flashback
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1. metaphor2. simile&
alliteration
3. simile
Now study the following sentences and tell us what figurative speech is used in each and how it contributes to the expressive effect of the language.1. It’s also the first time I’ve drunk a brandy so slowly. In Orlando you develop a throat of iron. (Para.5)2. He sat slumped in his seat, like a man with a burden of incomprehensible, insoluble grief. (Para. 75)3. What he was thinking, God knows, but I was thinking he was like a man trying to run a race in iron shoes, and not understanding why he cannot move. (Para. 75)
Figurative Language
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abreastabreast
ablaze
abreast
abroad
ahead
aside
着火,燃烧
并肩,并排,并列
在国外,到国外
向前,在前头
在一边
prefix
a-: in, on, at, by, with, to
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expelexpel
prefix
root
exclude
expose
extract
excavate
expel
ex-: out
排斥,排外
展出,揭露
抽出,拔出
挖出,发掘
赶出,逐出
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incomprehensibleincomprehensible
prefix
incomprehensible
inarticulate
insoluble
indisputable
inhuman
inhospitable
inharmonious
in-: not
不能理解的,难懂的
说不出的,不能言喻的
(问题等)不能解决的
无可争辩的,无可置疑的
无人性的;非人的
不好客的,不殷勤的
不和谐的,不合调的
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expelexpel
prefix
root
compel
dispel
expel
impel
propel
propeller
repel
pel: to push, to drive
强迫,被迫,迫使消除,驱散,赶走开除,驱逐,赶走迫使,驱使推进,推动推进器,螺旋桨击退,使厌恶,抵制
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avertavert
prefix
root
avertrevertdivertconvertpervertinvertintrovertextrovertsubvert
vert: to turn
转移(目光,思想等),防止使颠倒,使回转,回复转移,转向变换,转变反常使颠倒,使转化,转化的使内向,内省,内向性格的人外向性格的人推翻,颠覆