奇想英文书世界|美国少年的书‪单‬ 燕語晴川

这是一本写给成年人的书，很多大道理，只有做过孩子又在成年人游戏规则里打拼过的人回望过去才真的明白。那么读一下名句，体会一下又纯真又深邃的名作魅力。小王子的名句选读。

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have
no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore. If you want a friend, tame me. .

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
For to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
Growing up is not the problem, forgetting is.

高居纽约时报畅销榜5年，连续140周排第一！2015年时代杂志推荐给未成年人的最优秀百部小说之一。硬心肠的我在飞机上看电影不顾形象眼泪涟涟。必须推荐。


Wonder is a book by RJ Palacio centered around the story of a boy named August Pullman. August, or Auggie as everyone calls him, is ten years old。 He is ordinary in every way, enjoying ordinary things, talking like an ordinary kid. But he doesn’t look ordinary. He was born with distorted facial features that either scared or disgusted by people around him. Because of this, he can’t go to regular school and has been homeschooled by his mom. The story starts when he is about to join middle school, as he has to blend into society as a grown-up boy, and his mom has to go back to her own career.

Aussie生来脸部变形，人人见了他都害怕，从小只在家里跟妈妈一起学习，现在就要去上中学了，他的家庭和他自己都非常紧张，故事就是从这里展开的。


As expected, when he goes to school, he causes a stir. Kids and teachers alike stare at him, and one boy, Julian, goes so far to start leaving mean notes in his locker and to spread a nasty game where anyone who touches him has to wash their hands, otherwise they’ll end up looking like him. Auggie is very upset. But he is smart, and a tough boy, and he tries to make friends.

一个有生理缺陷的男孩子在中学里受到了来自方方面面的好奇和惧怕不说，还被其他男孩子欺负。在这样的环境里你是躲起来，还是勇敢做你自己，小英雄Aussie有自己的办法。

Thankfully, Auggie wins friendship from his new found friends Jack and Summer in school. And he gradually wins more respect from other kids as he has a big heart internally and they begin to see his personality, not just his looks. Luckily, he has his family to stand by him as always whenever he feels lost and sad.  They encourage him to be brave and stand tall, and Auggie does.

听上去，这是一个线索简单，有关突破自我的励志故事，但是，绝不仅仅如此。能够把我这么硬心肠的都弄哭了的一定另有原因。Aussie 经历的只是这本小说的主要线索。

Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include the perspectives of his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. As a community, everybody lives in and has his or her own struggle that others probably cannot see from outside. We only see a fragment of a whole person.

这才是这篇小说感人置身的原因。每个人都有自己的挣扎，自己的故事，和自己看到的事实，那并非全部。所以由此，引出了这篇小说真正想说的。

This book’s message is to always be kind. Kindness can help people get through so much. The kindness shown to Auggie, to his family, has helped him get through so much. Wonder emphasizes the fact that one small act of kindness can make a big difference in the lives of others, and that we always have the ability to choose kind.

Very well said, this book teaches us what is empathy, compassion, friendship, and ultimately, what is kindness.

介绍一本主题深刻复杂的短篇小说，1962年诺贝尔文学奖获得者美国作家John Steinbeck的是这样说的，In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme（主题）. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love。。。。Try to understand each other.这是作者的写作思想，每一个人都值得理解。那么我们来看看小说是怎样来表达这些。今天介绍小说的是高中生Stella，这部小说是9年级时候的学校英文课指定阅读书。


Set during the Great Depression（大萧条） in America, two men, George and Lennie, are in search of a job. Lennie suffers from some kind of mental disorder （精神错乱）and has a childlike disposition（孩童一样） which contrasts（对比） with his physical strength（身体强壮）. He likes soft things like bunnies（兔子）. Although George complains about having to take care of Lennie, he genuinely cares for his friend.Their dream is to own their own farm.
They finally find a farm job in California, where they meet Curley, a jealous and violent man who declares that no man may set eyes on his wife. His wife, however, is flirtatious. This woman has no name in the novel, in fact, her only role was to portray 描画 the symbol of danger towards Lennie. Towards the end of novel, Lennie accidentally kills her and runs off.
George understands that Lennie would suffer from a horrible torture 折磨 before his death by Curley and his men. Out of mercy出于仁慈, he kills his best friend Lennie by shooting him in the back of his head.
Wow, what a sad and dramatic 戏剧化 ending 结局! 
The world is tough; people like Lennie would have an especially hard time with life. He would have a hard time finding a job, and  he also loses jobs quickly. He harms and angers people without meaning to. He kills a woman tragically and he has no place to escape 逃脱 his destiny命运. His life is a tragedy  even though he holds such a nice and simple dream in his heart. George cared greatly for Lennie, but he had to live with the terrible burden 沉重的负担of killing his best friend. There was no happy ending and George understood that there was no better choice, that things would not get better and he only spared Lennie from a worse fate. Even so, the fact that he killed Lennie by his own hand makes George feel very sad.

猫战士系列书适合10岁左右孩子性格特点。奇幻，想象，历险，友谊，忠诚，了解宠物猫世界以外的野生猫世界。 

Warrior Cats is the series we will talk about today. Warrior Cats is actually multiple series in the same fictional fantasy （想象）world with slight connections to each other. The original series （原系列）is called “The Prophecies（预言） Begin” and introduces us to the main character Rusty, who is a pet cat. Then we meet the clans（族）, the wild cats who live in the forest and have their own way of life. He joins them and many adventures begin, starting with Rusty taking on a new “warrior” name. Warriors are the cats in the clans who fight against the other clans, hunt, and generally keep the other cats safe and healthy. This main character, Rusty, or Fireheart as he is later called when he receives his warrior name, shows up a few more times as well in the later series’. The Warrior Cats are a very imaginative group of books and teaches us the importance of friendship, loyalty忠诚, love, and adventure历险. Mainly though it is a children’s book series, enjoyable to read about and imagine wild cats having their own lifestyles 生活方式far away from humankind人类. This series contains 16 books, and you could start from any of them.

小说主题：守望纯真，拒绝成长，疏离于虚伪成年世界。
“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”


“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. ” 

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.

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塞林格的小说是天才性的小说，开辟了一种新的小说语言和写法。今天讲讲语言，下次说主题很内容。


Quote1: 
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”


Quote2: 
“In my mind, I’m probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. Sometimes I can think of very crumby stuff I wouldn’t mind doing if the opportunity came up. I can even see how it might be quite a lot of fun, in a crumby way. . . . The thing is, though, I don’t like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it. 

Quote3: 
He started going into this nodding routine. You never saw anybody nod as much in your life as old Spencer did. You never knew if he was nodding a lot because he was thinking and all, or just because he was a nice old guy that didn’t know his ass from his elbow.


Stream of consciousness: 意识流
First Person Narrative 第一人称叙事
Crap：廉价垃圾废物
Cultivated taste：被培养的品味