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,Say Yes,Tobias Wolff,R,einforcement,T,ext Analysis,B,ackground,W,arming up,Unit 2,Say Yes,Questions/Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,Warming up,Unit 2,Say Yes,Questions/Activities,Form groups of four,discuss the following two questions,and keep a record of your opinions to see whether they will change as the text is analyzed in detail.,Is the man a good husband?Cite textual evidence to support your view.,Is the man a racist?Cite textual evidence to support your view.,Warming up,Check-on Preview,Warming up,pitch in on,pinch,resort to,mop,spray,snap through,demonstrate,blur out,come up with,this trick,the housework,the silverware,the floor,her brows,her indifference,the pages,the right answer,the stars,Match the verbs with the nouns.,Mark the following statements T,for true and F for false.,The story is set in the 1960s in the US when racial issues were hot on everybodys mind and lips.,The story happened between two middle-aged people who had been married for about 30 years.,The man had never thought that he was a racist and felt greatly wronged by his wife who implied this.,The man was considerate,rational and forgiving while his wife was selfish,emotional and ridiculous.,The husband had known all along what his wife wanted from him,but simply didnt want to give in to her.,After the husband turned off the light,someone broke into their house and made some strange noise.,F,T,T,F,T,F,Check-on Preview,Warming up,Objectives,Know something about the author and his works.,Gather some background information about racism and sexism in the US.,Learn to appreciate the short story.,Master the language items listed.,Understand the story and appreciate its subtlety as much as possible.,Think about the themes of the story and form your own opinions.,Warming up,Background,Culture Tips,Author,Genre,Time,Unit 2,Say Yes,Background,His,Life,Tobias Wolff(1945-),Born in Alabama USA in 1945.,Parents divorced,when he was a boy;traveled widely with his mother;soon forced to endure life under his,strict and cruel stepfather,.,From 1964 to 1968,lieutenant,with the U.S.Army Special Forces(Green Berets),in Vietnam,.,B.A.(1972),and,M.A.(1975)from Oxford,University with First Class Honors in English,a second M.A.from Stanford.,A revered writer&teacher,of creative writing and literature in Stanford and elsewhere.,Background,His Works,Short stories(O Henry Award):,“In the Garden of the North American Martyrs”(1981),“Next Door”(1982),“Sister”(1985),Our Story Begins,(short story collection in 2003,The Story Prize in 2004,),Memoirs:,This Boys Life:A Memoir(1989),In Pharaohs Army:Memories of the Lost War(1994),Novels:,The Barracks Thief,(1984,PEN/Faukner Award for Fiction,),Old School(2003),This Boys Life,Film Poster,Background,His Style,A,direct,writing style,obeying the“show,dont tell”maxim,leaving much to the readers intuition,Non-dramatic,focusing more on the psychological dimensions of a character in dilemmas than on plot development,Often,understated,forcing readers to become engaged in the collection of strands that will result in the full comprehension of a story.,Exploring,alienation,the nature of lying,and the essential foundations of relationships,Hoping to,instruct and inspire,people to triumph over their situations through character change and development,Background,Time,The 1980s was a decade led by,Republican,policy.,Ronald Reagan,took office as president of the United States in 1980,served two terms,and then was succeeded by his vice president,George Bush.,Reagan held,conservative political beliefs,both on the domestic front and when it came to foreign policy.Although his economic programs brought the national inflation rate down,they also seemed to favor the wealthy.,By the 1980s,as the United States and the Soviet Union built up a stockpile of nuclear weapons,the cold war,had been ongoing for almost forty years.Reagan,an ardent opponent of communism,encouraged his administration to greatly increase military spending.,The Republican Years,Background,Culture Tips,Definition:,Racism is prejudice or discrimination based on the belief that race is the primary factor determining human traits and abilities.Racism includes the belief that genetic or inherited differences produce the inherent superiority or inferiority of one race over another.,Institutional racism,:e.g.the Jim Crow laws in the US from 1876 to 1965 mandating segregation in all public facilities in the southern states of the former Confederacy with a supposedly“separate but equal”status for the black Americans;officially overruled with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.,Overt and subtle racism:,The Civil Rights Movement did away much overt racism,but racism persists in many subtle forms,in many aspects and on many levels.,Racism,Background,Culture Tips,Race&Marriage,Despite the public opposition to interracial marriage,in,1948,the,California Supreme Court,became the first state high court to declare a,ban on interracial marriage unco
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