3/19 Finding Forester
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Book:
Chekhov
The Temple of Dawn
The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)
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Finding- Coleridge, Kipling, and more
Fartheràfarther
should be used for physical distance
E.g. We walked farther than we planned.
Furtheràfurther means to a greater extent or degree.
E.g. Now we
live further away from the city center.
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"The
Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted
for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a
distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness.
Initiation
Initial
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Mark David Chapman is an American prison inmate
who pleaded guilty to murdering John
Lennon on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired at Lennon five times,
hitting him four times in his back. Chapman remained at the scene reading J. D. Salinger's novel The
Catcher in the Rye until
the police arrived and arrested him. Chapman repeatedly said that the novel was
his statement.
Almost broke
my neck
Red-hunting
hat
Symbol:
museum
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Connecting Henry David Thoreau &Holden’s
need for ESCAPE
Walden
à to front
only the essential facts of life
·
Chap. 1
Prep school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (also
known prep school) is a secondary school,
either public or private, designed to prepare students for a college or
university education.
Phony
(n.)(adj.)
If you describe something as phony, you disapprove of it because
it is false rather than genuine.
Chap. 2
“ Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays
according to the rules. ”
NYU New York university
CUNY The City University of New York
SUNY The State University of New
York
Chap.25
“Smoke Gets
in Yours Eyes” 眼睛泛起淚光
Chp26
“Don’t
ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
à Genuine act,
and not trust with others.
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The books which Holden had been read:
David
Copperfield/ Oliver Twist à Bildungsroman
Out of Africa
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Forester: Just remember that bitterly
disappointed teachers can be either very effective or dangerous.
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英國文學浪漫時期五大詩人
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
William Wordsworth
William Blake
John Keats
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98
and published in 1798 in
the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
· Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other
Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge,
first published in 1798 and generally considered to have
marked the beginning of the English Romantic
movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was
modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing
the course of English
literature and poetry.
Blasphemies: You can
describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
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James Madison
James Madison, Jr. was an American
statesman, political theorist, and the fourth President of the United States
(1809–17). He is hailed as the "Father of the
Constitution" for being instrumental in the drafting of the U.S.
Constitution and as the key champion and author of the Bill of Rights. He
served as a politician much of his adult life.