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1、Lesson 3 Blackmail,By group 2,Arthur Hailey 亚瑟 黑利 (1920-2004),Arthur Haileys life Arthur Haileys works Characteristics of his works Character,Arthur Hailey,Born 5th April 1920 Luton, Bedfordshire, England Died 24th November 2004 (aged 84) New Providence, The Bahamas巴哈马群岛,A British/Canadian/American/
2、Bahamian novelist,Arthur Hailey,1965-1969 California,till 2004 Bahamas,1947-1964 Canada,1939-1947 England,In England,Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England Educated in Britains free school system and quit at the age of 14 Worked as a clerk Served in RAF (British Royal Air Force英国皇家空军) as a Flight Lieu
3、tenant（空军上尉） from the start of World War II,In Canada &California,Became a Canadian citizen Worked in real estate and magazine publishing（房地产杂志出版） Began writing full time in 1956 Success of the CBC（Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 加拿大广播公司）television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zer
4、o Eight) Success of Hotel Moved to California in 1965,In the Bahamas巴哈马群岛,He had four sons and two daughters from two marriages, he made his home in Lyford Cay with his second wife Sheila(who wrote “I Married a Best-Seller” published in 1978). He also had four grandchildren. Devoted himself complete
5、ly to literature,Arthur Hailey,Hailey had suffered a stroke in September,2004 and died in his home on November 24th when he was 84. In the years before his death, he no longer published any novels.,BACK,Bibliography (书目),Runway Zero-Eight (1958) in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning
6、The Final Diagnosis (1959) hospital politics as seen from the pathology department In High Places (1960) Cold War Era politics in North America Hotel (1965) hotels Airport (1968) airport politics Wheels (1971) automobile industry The Moneychangers (1975) banks Overload (1979) power crisis in Califor
7、nia Strong Medicine (1984) pharmaceutical industry The Evening News (1990) newscasters Detective (1997) investigation politics,Best Sellers,BACK,Characteristics,Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researc
8、hed information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants.,BACK,Critics often dismissed（不屑一提） Haileys success as the result of a formulaic “potboiler” (粗制滥造 )style in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a c
9、risis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines. Arthur Hailey always tried to give his novels a realism that appealed to readers, even as some critics complained that he used it to disguise（掩盖） a lack of literary talent.,For much of his career, Hailey was either de
10、rided（嘲笑） or ignored by literary critics, who often felt his plots were contrived （不自然的）and his characters wooden. However, he was so popular with readers that his books were almost guaranteed to become best-sellers and two years before his death in 2004 many of his major books were reissued.,BACK,P
11、ersonality,Diligent Perseverant Ambitious Easygoing Clever,BACK,Hotel,Background Brief introduction Main character,Background,1.The article was created in 1965. 2.The United States of America was the United States for black civil rights into a new stage. .,3.the domestic anti war (Vietnam War) are g
12、rowing louder, the novel reflects the American capitalist society founded the drawbacks and problems of every hue: the hotel due to the jungle, blackmail and impose exactions on detective staff, hotel staff larceny, black racial prejudice, aristocratic mean and having no sense of shame, children of
13、the wealthy merchant girl corrupt, spiritual emptiness, habitual insatiably covetous and gluttonous hotelAll of this, can be said to be a microcosm of American capitalist society at that time decay.,About Blackmail,这个词起源于一个海盗部落的旧例，海盗们欺凌百姓横行乡里，他们向苏格兰的农夫们收取保护金，如果农夫们不给，他们就偷取他们的庄稼和牲畜。MAIL在古英语中有定金，保证金的意思
14、，BLACK或者表示这种做法的黑暗，或者表示这种保护费是以实物如牛等进行支付的，区别于银币也就是白色的钱。1552年这个词第一次出现，到1826年衍生为敲诈，勒索的意思 Hotel,Brief introduction,The novel hotel describes that in southern New Orleans of United States, a luxury hotel, because the boss Warren Trent who can not follow the beaten track, management, and can not keep up th
15、e development of the times, was forced to sell with outcome of debt a story. Hotel,Main character,Peter McDermott: He is a graduate from Cornell University in Hotel Management and then got a job in a hotel. However then he had been involved with a lady at time when he was supposed to be on duty. Thi
16、s gave Peters wife and the ladys husband a reason to ask for a divorce.,Getting involved was not a big thing for hotel to avoid but it had marked the headlines of newspaper so much, that he was dismissed from the job and was blacklisted. But Warren Trent, the head of St. Gregory Hotel, ignoring the past and considering the skill, hired him. The novel captures McDermott attempts to deal with several crises in the hotel which involve a range of other
