Note on Week 16

Vocabulary
imaginary  虛構中的；幻想的

High Fantasy  - a sub-genre of fantasy fiction, defined either by its taking place in an imaginary world distinct from our own or by the epic stature of its characters, themes and plot.

Dystopia  反烏托邦

Utopia  烏托邦

totalitarianism  極權主義

psychological manipulation  思想操弄 - a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.

fable  寓言；傳說

三大奇幻小說作家：
J. R. R. Tolkien  《The Lord of Rings》
C. S. Lewis《Narnia》
Ursula K. Le Guin《Earthsea》fantasy series

《The One Who Walks Away from Omela》

In the story, Omelas is a utopian city of happiness and delight, whose inhabitants are intelligent and cultured. Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the city's one atrocity: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery, and that all her citizens should be told of this upon coming of age.

After being exposed to the truth, most of the people of Omelas are initially shocked and disgusted, but are ultimately able to come to terms with the fact and resolve to live their lives in such a manner as to make the suffering of the unfortunate child worth it. However, a few of the citizens, young and old, silently walk away from the city, and no one knows where they go. The story ends with "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

Pleasantville  《歡樂谷》（Dystopian novel/film）

Two 1990's teenagers find themselves in a 1950's sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.

Note on Week 14

Vocabulary
portfolio  文件夾；投資組合
awkward  笨拙的，不靈巧的
smirk  嘻嘻笑
immature  不成熟的；粗糙的
stab  刺(偏暴力性的名詞)

de - down, away from
       avoid doing sth
deter  使延遲

reveal  顯現
psychopath  精神病患者
irrevocably  不能取消地，不能撤回地
       ↓
    voice
jalopy→Decrepit car  敞篷車
depreciation  跌價；貶值
convertible  可轉換的；有摺蓬的；有活動摺蓬的汽車
pound  碰碰地跳
horn  角；觸鬚；號角
shaggy  有粗毛的；頭髮蓬亂的
Usher  接待員
Usherette  女性接待員
folly  愚笨；蠢事
suspend  懸掛
collar  領子
dandy  紈褲子弟
peculiarly  古怪地

Extra
Willa Cather
擅長描寫女性及美國早期移民的拓荒開墾生活
重要的美國鄉土作者之一
《My Antonia》: "We come and go, but the land will always be here. Those people who love and understand it."
《One of Ours》→女性主義的書→獲得普立茲獎

Note on Week 13

Vocabulary

exclude  把...排除在外；逐出
seclude  使隔離，使孤立，使隱居
include   包含；算入

se-apart from
separate  分隔；分散；區別
segregate  分離；在...實行種族隔離；被隔離的

Eucharist  聖餐；聖體
Commencement speech - a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university
charlice - a goblet or footed cup intended to hold a drink. In general religious terms
chivalry  騎士精神

Note on Week 12

"Where are you going, Where have you been?"
is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch Magazine. It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4, 1966. Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she had been inspired to write it after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

-Vocabulary
iconic  畫像的；肖像的
porn grapher  情色小說家→多指責D. H. Lawrence
professor emeritus  退休教授
asthma  過敏氣喘
confidante  知心密友
in vain  徒勞地
bosom 乳房；胸襟
elope  私奔；逃走
find fault with  找碴
discreet  謹慎的，考慮周到的；樸素的

ann-
anniversary  周年紀念
annual fee  年費
annuity   年金

grinding sense  捉襟見肘

Note on Week 11

-Vocabulary
feast  盛宴，宴席
Oedipus Complex  伊底帕斯情節
enlightenment  啟蒙；教化；開明
forbid  禁止；不准

enlightenment forbidden fruit→基督教神話裡提起的禁果
temptation  誘惑，引誘
censorship  審查制度，檢查制度；審查員的職務
shire  郡(英國行政區)[原]祖先埋骨聚集之所
sexual orientation 性傾向
canonical  標準的，權威的；根據教育法的
obituary  訃告；死亡的

man-
manual  手工的；手作的
manufactory  製造廠，工廠
manipulate  操作，運用

pneumonia  肺炎

Note on Week6

-Vocabulary
phony  (口)矯情的賤人；假的，欺騙的

-Smoke gets in your eyes - Platters

-Mark David Chapman killing John Lenon. He said that he was caused from J. D Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye.


-Fiction
Rudyard Kipling "The ay through the woods"
原文：
THEY shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago. 
Weather and rain have undone it again, 
And now you would never know 
There was once a road through the woods 
Before they planted the trees. 
It is underneath the coppice and heath, 
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees 
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease, 
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods 
Of a summer evening late, 
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools 
Where the otter whistles his mate, 
(They fear not men in the woods, 
Because they see so few.) 
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, →from Finding Forrester
And the swish of a skirt in the dew, 
Steadily cantering through 
The misty solitudes, 
As though they perfectly knew 
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.

-Sentence from Finding Forrest

Where are you taking me?你到底在寫什麼？
I'm messing with you. 我在開玩笑啦/我在鬧你啦

Note on Week 5

Fiction
The Tell-Tale Heart
A short story by Edgar Allen Poe which was told by a unnamed narrator who insist he is sane but suffering from a disease which causes "over-acuteness of the senses".


A Psalm of life
A poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




Vocabulary
Cassandra - The daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba who has power for prophecy that Apollo grant her.
forshadowing  預示；成為...的前兆
kinship  親屬關係
furies  復仇女神三姊妹
patron goddess  守護女神
presume  擅自做；假定
innocent  無罪的，清白的；天真的
mockery  嘲笑，嘲弄
hideous  醜陋的；可怕的；駭人聽聞的；令人厭惡的
dissemble  掩飾
mort  通知獵物已死的號角聲→死亡之意味

Note on Week 3

-Vocabulary-
nostagically  懷鄉地；懷舊地；念舊地
cab  計程車
fetch a cab=call a taxi
(↑紐約道地說法)
lagoon  水塘；瀉湖
bizarre  荒誕的；奇異的
意混淆之詞→bazarre  大市集
record  黑膠唱片
pervert
(n.)
怪胎；行為反常者
(vt.)
1.使走上邪道，使變壞；腐蝕
2.歪曲，曲解
3.誤用，濫用
4.使違反常情，使反常
physician;medical doctor  醫生
psycho-analytic society  心理分析學家
pupil  學徒，弟子；小學生，學生

encounter
→put into...

-Phrase-
go one's way 找到自己的出路

make a pass at someone
to flirt or suggested sexual activity with someone

make a pass at something
to fly over or close by something

-The Catcher in the Rye-

You follow me? Are you still with me?
→Are you listening to me?

CH.24(P.188)
"The mark of immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
「一個不成熟男子的標記，是他願意為某種原因英勇地死去；一個成熟男子的標記，是他為了某種原因謙卑地活著。」



Given Name   +   Middle Name   +   Last Name
         ↓                          ↓
  不可更改         為紀念某人或其他涵義

EX:愛倫坡→Edgar Allan Poe
Allan是養父的姓氏，但他並與養父相處不睦，所以再自稱時會縮寫成Edgar A. Poe

Note on Week 2

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of theworld's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.

The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has beenfrequently challenged in the United States and other countries for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality.It also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation.

J. D. Salinger

Jerome David "J. D." Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer. Living reclusively after much-noticed publications early in his career, he last published an original work in 1965, and gave his last interview in 1980.

Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several in Story magazine in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his later work. In 1951, his novel The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel remains widely read and controversial, selling around 250,000 copies a year.

Note on Week 1

1.What is "Young-Adult Fiction" mean?

→Young-Adult fictions are stories about underages encouter some difficulties and tried to resolve it or run away from it.

2:What is "genre"?What is "period'?

→Genre is literate type. For instance, novel, poem, drama.

    Period is literate books at interval of time.

3: Name three of the major subgenres associated with Young-adult fiction.

→Growth, problem, fantasy and detective.

4:Name three problems about young-adult encounters to.

→School, sex, parents.

Words:

carrousel→merry go-around

young-adult = adolescent = juvenile = minor = underage

antihero [n.] → someone is a protagonist who lacks of heroic virtues or qualities.

antiheroic [adj.]

pro- many or much

prolific→productive ex:Shakespear is a prolific writer.

protagonist→the main character of a literary.