文档介绍：英语专业大三上学期高级英语Lesson 4 Everyday Use For Your Grandmamma
By
Alice Walker
About the author
Walker, Alice (1944- ), American author and poet, most of whose writing portrays the lives of poor, oppressed African American women in the early 1900s.
Born Alice Malsenior Walker in ia, she was educated at Spelman and Sarah Lawrence colleges. Walker's experiences during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence, including undergoing an abortion and making a trip to Africa, provided many of the book's themes, such as love, suicide, civil rights, and Africa. Walker received many additional honors and awards. She was also active in the movements for civil and women's rights.
Walker's other works
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Meridian (1976)
The Color Purple (1982)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
The novel The Color Purple (1982), which was praised for its strong characterizations and the clear, musical quality of its colloquial language. The novel was made into a motion picture in 1985.
The novel won all the three major book awards in America---the Pulitzer prize, the National Book Award (美国图书奖), the National Book Critics Circle Award.
“Everyday Use” took place at a time and place when dramatic changes of racial relationships was happening.
Alice Walker is herself a strong civil right activist.
Unlike Alice Walker, the narrator and Maggie in the story didn’t rebel against discrimination and oppression, but tried to find their peace and satisfaction in the status quo.
“Every Use” can be seen as Walker’s tribe to similar women in that time who prevailed by enduring and affirming the best in their troubled heritage.
“Everyday Use: for your grandmamma”
Objectives of Teaching
prehend the whole story
To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions
To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences
To understand the structure of the text
To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.