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Text Text AppreciatiAppreciationon
I. Text analysis 1. General analysis 2. Theme 3. Further discussion
II. Writing devices Ellipsis
III. Sentence paraphrase
Lesson 6 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
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Plot of the story
Setting of the story
Protagonists of the story
Language style of the story
Theme of the story
I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisHave you
got the key elements in the story?
General analysis
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Plot: Chaos on Maple Street due to the suspicion of the attack of ETs as being called Monsters
Setting: Maple Street in a typical American town
Protagonists: Residents
Language style: go to Writing Devices
Theme of the story: go to the next page
I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis
For reference.
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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisTheme of the story
The theme is summed up at the very end.
The end of Theme.
In this play, the author seems to emphasize three fatal human weaknesses: our deep suspicion and distrust of one another, our eagerness to find a scapegoat, and our readiness to turn into a mob. It implies that if we human beings want to be really safe, we must kill those monsters in our hearts: we should try to understand and trust each other, to be less eager to assign blame, and to resist the kind of group (mob) mentality which too often results in
violence and tragedy.
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How do you understand the title of the text?
How did the story take place?
What were people’s first reactions to this?
Why did Tommy try to stop Steve from going away?
How did Goodman become the first suspect?
I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis
Further discussion about the story
The end of Further discussion.
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Ellipsis is common in speaking. Some
elements in a sentence are dropped.
Examples:
“Guess it was…” should be “I guess…”
“Came awful close…” should be “I came awful
close…”
II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices
Ellipsis
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III. Sentence III. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 11
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The title of the play: the “monsters” seem to refer to those ETs (extraterrestrial beings) who are out to destroy us human beings on earth (the earthlings or earth people). When we finish the play, however, we realize that monsters actually live in our own hearts. Because of our weaknesses or wicked ways, we tend to destroy each other or seek our own destruction. This, and not the ETs, is o
ur real enemy and real danger.
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III. Sentence III. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase
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The train is due in exactly 20 minutes.
He is due to arrive at 6:00.
The meeting is due to start in 10 minutes.
to be due: to be expected to happen or arrive at a particular time
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III. Sentence III. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 22
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It is Maple Street, a quiet, tree-lined, residential street in a typical American town. (Para. 1)
The sequence of adjectives:Opinion: beautiful, horrible, lovely, nice, etc. Shape: long, short, round, narrow, etc.Age: old, new, young, etc.Colour: red, black, orange, etc.Origin: British, Canadian, German, etc.Material: plastic, metal, aluminum, etc.
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III.III. Sentence Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 33
A Good Humor man (Para. 1)
A man who sells Good Humor products or
works for Good Humor Company
“Good Humor” is a brand of ice cream that is
sold in the United States.
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Another man waters his lawn. (Para. 1)
Like “water”, the following nouns can also be used as verbs:
land, screw, face, back, grade, store, question, fish, book, ship, paper, truck, bike, dust, etc.
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III.III. Sentence Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase
Examples:
The workers are landing goods from a ship.
She slowly backed the car into the garage.
Would you please book a ticket for me?
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III.III. Sentence Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 55
… looks up and listens to the sound of a
tremendous roar from overhead. (Para. 2)
a terrible continuous loud noise, especially
made by animals like lions, or by a man or a
machine
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A flash of light plays on his face, …( Para. 2) 译文 : 一道亮光划 过 他 的 脸 , ······
If light plays on something, it shines on it and moves about on it.
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III.III. Sentence Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 77
… the man who has been polishing his car,
stands there speechless, … ( Para. 2 )
Subject complement modifying “the man”. It is not used to modify the verb “stands”.
More examples
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III.III. Sentence Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase
Examples:
The sun was burning hot.
He was lying there, fast asleep.
Three months later, she came back home,
penniless.
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… the power is off. ( Para. 10)
… There is no power; power is no longer
connected. “Off” here indicates a state of not
working or operating (of a machine or electrical
appliance). Its opposite is “on”.
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I can’t get anybody on the phone, either.
(Para. 2)
I can’t get anybody to answer the phone.
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I’ll cut through the back yard… (Para. 16)
I’ll cut across/go right through the back yardrather than go around it in order to save time.
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Doesn’t make sense. (Para. 17)
to have a clear meaning and be easy to understand
A complete form of the sentence is: It doesn’t make sense.
“It doesn’t have any reason or explanation.” or “I can’t understand it.”
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Examples:
No matter how I tried to read it, the sentence didn’t make (any) sense (to me).
Why should he hate his own son like that? It doesn’t make sense.
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I can’t get a thing on the radio. Not even the portable. (Para. 20)
I even can’t get anything on the portable radio.
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译文:我的收音机什么也收不到,连手提收音机也是这样。
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A little power failure and right away we get all excited. (Para. 21)
Here “and” functions as “then”, indicating the result.
More Examples:
Water the seeds and they will grow.
A few nice words, and he will do anything for you.
One more mistake, and you are fired!
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It’s just as if… as if everything had stopped. (Para. 28)
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Here “as if” introduces an adverbial clause of manner in which the subjunctive mood is required if it is an unreal condition.
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It couldn’t be the meteor. (Para. 29)
It wasn’t likely to be the meteor.
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They raise Cain with radio reception all over the world. (Para. 46)
III. Sentence III. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 1616
该隐种田,亚伯牧羊,上帝接受亚伯的贡物而不选该隐的供物,该隐发怒而杀亚伯于是上帝将该隐从定居地赶走。该隐害怕在流离飘荡中被人杀害,因此上帝给他身上留下记号以保护他,并说凡杀该隐的必遭报应,这段圣经故事可能说明,一个名叫该隐的部族实行纹身,为被害的本部族成员报仇,也可能是要说明该隐部族从事游牧生活的原因。有些《圣经》考证家认为该隐指基尼
族人。
“raise Cain” colloq. make a disturbance; create trouble. Cain, eldest son of Adam, who murdered his brother.
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And this thing, being so close - why, there’s no telling the sort of stuff it can do. (Para. 46)
As it was so close, it’s impossible to know what has happened or what will happen next.
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译文,与我们距离——那么近的东西
唉,人们却难以预料它有什么能耐。
it is impossible to know
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Examples:
There’s no telling what may happen.
As to his plans, there’s simply no telling.
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There’s a murmur in the crowd, a murmur
of irritation and concern. (Para. 48)
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A murmur of irritation and concern is in apposition to murmur.
More examples:
His mother, a well-known actress, died last month.
The marvel of the machine age, the electronic
computer has been in use only since 1946.
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… the sound of a car’s engine starting to turn over.
(Para. 56)
The object of the proposition “of” is the noun “engine” and the verb “start” in its –ing form. They form what is called a compl
ex object.
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How come his car just started like that?
(Para. 60)
“How come” is used to ask somebody why something has happened.
Examples:
How come he got the job when she was the best-qualified person?
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… the general impression holds that maybe the people in one family aren’t what we think they are. (Para. 70)
“Hold” takes a that clause as its object. It is formal and usually used in the passive.
It is widely held that maybe the people in one family aren’t what we think they are.
to believe sth. to be true
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You know anybody that might fit that
description around here on Maple Street?
(Para. 70)
sb. fits the description: he/she is just the person we are looking for
Examples:
He doesn’t fit the description; he is much too thin.
This is not the house we are looking for. It doesn’t fit the description.
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I just don’t understand it… any more than any of you do! (Para. 72)
Here “no (not any) more than” is used to emphasize that someone or something does not have a particular quality or would not do something.
Examples:
I could no more do that than you.
I could not do that any more than you.
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