*News：黑人青年被槍殺→但是白人無罪？
-basic problem: GDP、失業率(unemployment)、黑人的剝奪感很重
*莎莎經典名句：
-先求有→再求好
-讀書是必要的→放進腦子裡的不會爛 (rationale)
-‘If they simply do not have intention to be a better people.’
-An American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
-短篇小說之父 (handout p.168~169)
-死於Baltimore
→ “The Philosophy of Composition” (unity and effect)
>An 1846 essay written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. He concludes that length, "unity of effect" and a logical method are important considerations for good writing.
→ “The Raven” (p.688)
>A narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.
*movie: The Blind Side攻其不備→Baltimore Ravens
*psychological abnormalities
*第一人稱
* “Art is long and times is fleeting, and our heart.”
(*短篇小說用→ “ ”)
→An American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Considered an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.
→An American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
4. John Steinbeck (p.2229)
→An American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), widely attributed to be part of the American literary canon, is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece.
5. Works of Edgar Allan Poe
*(p.691) Annabel Lee
→ The last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious. He retains his love for her even after her death.
*(p.692) Ligeia
→An early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines attributed to Joseph Glanvill (which suggest that life is sustainable only through willpower) shortly before dying. After her death, the narrator marries the Lady Rowena.
*(p.702) The Fall of the house of Usher
→A short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the lake.
→第一人稱
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