the last leaf.ppt.ppt
The Last LeafO.Henry,William Sydney Porter,O.Henry(1862-1910),Charged with embezzling funds from the bank in Texas,fled to Honduras When his wife was dying,he returned to Texas in 1897;he turned himself to the authorities and served three years in prisonhe began to write short stories used the pseudonym O.Henry.,the main characters,Im just a poor artist living with my best friend Johnsy.Its getting really cold,and Johnsy has come down with pneumonia.The doctor doesnt give Johnsy much hope of surviving.This breaks my heart.,I feel so sick and Im tired.I know I will die soon.I just want to hold on until the last leaf of the Ivy branch falls.Soon the last leaf wll fall,and I will die,too.,What is this nonsense?The little girl thinks she will die when a leaf falls from a vine?This is crazy i must do something to protect the poor little thing,A very quick preview of the fiction,Comments,Although O Henry certainly did not invent the short story,he mastered this form and perfected the technique of the surprise ending.O Henry became a master at doing this by laying the construction for these endings in the story itself.He gives hints to his readers of the endings to come by briefly including details that seem unimportant at first memories.But become immensely important when the surprise ending is revealed.An example of this is in the story the last Leafwhere reader sees clues of what the old artist living downtowns has done to save the life of the girl upstairs.,尽管短篇小说这种文学形式并非欧 亨利首创的，但他堪称这种文体的大师级人物，而且还将出人意料的结局这种技巧发扬至完美。在故事展开的过程中，他就开始为结局埋下伏笔，手法非常熟稔巧妙，通过那些 初看似乎无关紧要的细节，设置，他不断给读者以小小的暗示，然而，直到故事真相大白的那一刻，读者才会意识到当初那些细枝末节是多么重要。最后一片叶子就是一个典型例子。在这篇小说里，读者其实可以发现很多蛛丝马迹，揭示了楼下的那位老画家是如何挽救那位姑娘的生命的,We know the old man has been waiting his whole life to paint his masterpiece,but we dont expect hin to.Not until the very ending do we realize that the old artist has indeed fulfilled his dream while at the same time,fatally injuring himself in a selfless act of kindness.O.Herry is a master at leading the reader down one path of expectation,and then shattering these expectation,and than shattering these expectations at the surprising conclusion of the story.However,just as in“the last leaf”,these endings are rarely random acts of cruel fate.Instead,they are carefully constructed by the masterful author to show the reader the humanity of our frail and sometimes foolish,but also generous and kind nature.,我们都知道，那位老人终生都在等待创出一部经典画作，可我们觉得是白日做梦。直到小说结尾，我们才意识到，他确确实实实现了梦想，同时却因为自己善良无私的行为身染重病致死。在小说中，欧亨利非常善于引导读者满怀期望地开始阅读，却在故事结尾用出人意料的结局打碎这些切期望。然而，正如在最后一片叶子里一样，这些结尾大多并非命运残酷无常造成的，而是这位大师级的作者精心构造出来的，旨在向读者揭示我们那脆弱、有时愚蠢却亦慷慨而善良的本性。,Thank you,
