美國文學week5

Week5

·         I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

·         Paramount pictures/ Walden media/ TKEC/ Nickelodeon Movies (youtube)

·         Could you spare some minutes for me?

·         P933.

The life in us is like the water in the river.

·         Herbivore <-> omnivore

Omni-power

carnivore

omnipotent

Omniscient

·         Theme/ motifs

·         Symbols:

·         Seclude

Conclude

Include

Separate

Select

Seclusive

·         St. Francis of Assis (picture)

·         St. Christoopher (picture)

Venerated

worship

Walden pond (symbol)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

·         Important quotation (sparknote)

3.

5.

Zanzibar

The great Gatsby

“ so we beat on boats against the current borne ceaselessly into the past.”

Segregate <-> interrogate

   Could you text me?

Pro- in favor of

Prolific

Protagonist

Propaganda (不算文學)

·         Accurately

Wrangling, twist

Exploit (n.)

Exportations

People(s) 種族

The biblical job “ whirlwind”

Job (the most righteous person on earth)

“ Angel in the whirlwind”

reconcile

reconciliation

rational

rattle

predesting

enable

diverse <-> universe

immigrant

accountant

competent

enlighten

conviction

belief

bene-good

male/ mli- bad

benevolent

malicious

maleficence (movie)

English Eliet Geroge

Periodical

advantage

adventure

advance

manufactory

manual

manipulate

manicure

manifest destiny

Time is money! (youtube)

The penny saved, the penny earned.

Deists

Destined to

Andrew Jackson

Territorial expansion

P169. Transcendentalism