文档介绍：The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl
By Elizabeth Wong
Discussion of Paragraph 1
Why do you think the school was newly painted?
As the Chinese school is rather old, its outside must have been discolored and dirty. To make it look attractive, the school was newly painted as a kind of face-lift.
does the existence of the old school imply?
The Chinese school is still there, which implies that still there are many Chinese children attending Chinese lessons in the school. Although they live abroad, Chinese parents never forget their own culture and their own language and require that their children learn their mother tongue.
Language work in Paragraph 1
1. Despite the new coat of paint and the high wire fence, the school I knew 10 years ago remains remarkably, stoically the same.
Although covered with a new coat of paint and enclosed with a high wire fence, the school I knew 10 years ago continues to be the same, showing remarkable defiance of the vicissitudes of time.
fence n. structure of rails, stakes, wire, etc., esp. one put round a field or garden to mark a boundary or keep animals from straying.: (1) The backyard is enclosed with a high wire fence.(2) The field is surrounded with a stake fence.vt. surround, divide, or enclose a field, a garden, etc. with a fence.: (1) His land is fenced with barbed wire.(2) The grounds are fenced in to prevent trespassing.
stoically adv. with great self-control and a strong will to endure pain, fort, or misfortune plaining about it or showing signs of feeling it.(1) She behaved stoically during the final phase of her husband's illness.(2)They endured all kinds of hardships stoically.
Analysis of Paragraph 1
This paragraph, the beginning of the narrative text, provides the background of the story. From this we readers learn that the Chinese school on Yale Street, where the author and her brother used to go 10 years ago continues to exist there, remaining remarkably and stoically the sam