文档介绍：Lesson 9
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
班级:英语0903班
成员:温欣郭宇张宇
徐乐孙卓王旭东
时间:2012-06-27
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
I. Background information(郭宇)
1. About the text
The genre and the writing characteristics of this work
Allegory
This text is taken from The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. This writing may be called a piece of allegorical description. And this is the most important and outstanding writing characteristics of the article. Then I will introduce the allegorical description.
Allegory in literature is a symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. The characters in an allegory often have no individual personality, but are embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions. The allegory is closely related to parable religious teaching story, fable, animal story, and metaphor, differing from them largely in intricacy and length. Although allegory is still used by some authors, its popularity as a literary form has declined in favor of a more personal form of symbolic expression. Allegory application to the part of the book is a kind of rhetoric. But for total, it es essential conception of the method. The literal meaning of the direct expression and the real meaning of the author pletely different or opposite.
Two prominent characteristics of the allegory
One is the symbolic. Another one is twofold. The allegorical symbolic mainly reflects in structure rather than the details of the text, it will be an abstract concept materialization. The dualism of the allegorical refers to the author said this means hat, its surface meaning is not real meaning, that is the allegorical has surface meaning and deep significance.
Allegory use in the text
From The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a story about the allegorical, we can analyze the text from its surface meaning and deep significance while reading it. The author fi
rst from a vision of the city