复旦大学：《英美短篇小说 British and American Short Stories》学生课堂报告_The End of the Party

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The end of the party

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Author Summary Analysis

English author Playwright Literary critic The Power and the glory d The Heart of the Matte The Confidentialagent Oxford University Journalist MI6 Spy bipolar disorder (2 October 1904-3 April 1991) 条染

(2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) English author Playwright Literary critic The Power and the Glory The Heart of the Matte The Confidential Agent ······ Oxford University Journalist MI6 Spy bipolar disorder

The End of The party

The End of The Party

main Content 1 A tragic story of a young boy named francis Morton who had an extreme phobia of darkness. x Hide and seek in darkness e All throughout the story, Francis tried to remind others of his terrible fear but failed e Peter could understand Francis' dread, kept trying to protect and comfort his brother, but g. there was little he could do 条染

Main Content 1: * A tragic story of a young boy named Francis Morton who had an extreme phobia of darkness. * Hide and seek in darkness * All throughout the story, Francis tried to remind others of his terrible fear but failed. * Peter could understand Francis’ dread, kept trying to protect and comfort his brother, but there was little he could do

main Contet 2 %. During the process of hiding in the darkness, in order to comfort his brother and release his terror Peter came to francis secretly x francis was scared literally to his death with Peters comforting touch BACK 条染

Main Content 2: * During the process of hiding in the darkness, in order to comfort his brother and release his terror, Peter came to Francis secretly. * Francis was scared literally to his death with Peter’s comforting touch. BACK

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Analysis I. Content II. Method of Narrating

Diead(71) Dread is something naturally exists in every one's mind In the early livelihood, people kept suffering from various kinds of fears that caused by the unknown outside world Francis' dread came out from his uneasiness and resistance to the unknown world around him. The uncertainty of the dark environment S just works as an origin of fear 条染

-------------------------------------------------------- Francis’ dread came out from his uneasiness and resistance to the unknown world around him. The uncertainty of the dark environment just works as an origin of fear. * Dread (1) Dread is something naturally exists in every one’s mind. In the early livelihood, people kept suffering from various kinds of fears that caused by the unknown outside world

Dread(2) Childrens fear will gradually be substituted by another kind of terror as they grow up which in essence also contains a sense of insecurity Yet the adult usually prefer to describe their terror as something mature and deep while they despise that of children as naive and ridiculous What Francis thought after his mothers replying just reveal the falsity of the opinion that the adult hold 条染

* Dread (2) Children’s fear will gradually be substituted by another kind of terror as they grow up which in essence also contains a sense of insecurity. Yet the adult usually prefer to describe their terror as something mature and deep while they despise that of children as naïve and ridiculous. -------------------------------------------------------- What Francis thought after his mother’s replying just reveal the falsity of the opinion that the adult hold

He knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how g. fearfully they avoided the idea of it. In another word, the adult have been taught for a lifelong time that there is nothing to be afraid of death while they still keeps worrying about it so much. So, apparently the adult also *A have their own dread. and their dread becomes quite ironic when it comes to their dismissive NE attitude towards children's dread feelings 条染

“He knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how fearfully they avoided the idea of it.” -------------------------------------------------------- In another word, the adult have been taught for a lifelong time that there is nothing to be afraid of death while they still keeps worrying about it so much. So, apparently the adult also have their own dread, and their dread becomes quite ironic when it comes to their dismissive attitude towards children’s dread feelings