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1、1 What is your dream 2 Has it come true 3 Are you still holding on to this dream Homeless to HarvardHomeless to Harvard Speaker Wang ShuiyanSpeaker Wang Shuiyan An Autobiography by Liz MurrayAn Autobiography by Liz Murray PREFACE1 Characters Introduction2 THEMES3 PLOTS4 CONTENTSCONTENTS 4 Classical
2、Quatations5 Homeless to Harvard is Liz Murray s autobiography It is a true story that takes place in a real person Liz was born in a slum in New York Her parents are both drug addicts 瘾君子 Worse still her mom had schizophrenia 精神分裂症 and later died of AIDS Her father went to the homeless shelter becau
3、se he was drunk and had no job It was not until her mother s death that Liz known that there was a bright world outside of her own life Then she decided to change her present terrible situation After a long struggle with tough life She was finally admitted to Harvard University the highest academic
4、institution 风雨哈佛路 主人公丽丝出生在纽约的贫民窟 尽管父母吸毒 但莉丝仍然深爱着他们 她在毒品 艾滋 饥饿充斥的环境中度过童年 PREFACEPREFACE 2 2 CHARACTERS INTRODUCTION QUATATIONS Jean Murray Mother Jean Murray She was a drug addict 瘾君子 She was an alcoholic 酒鬼 She was legally blind 基本失明 She was a schizophrenic 患有精神分裂 But she loved Liz Liz s father scra
5、ped into 勉强挤进 a college psychology school in downtown New York But in less than two years he dropped out of school He later became a street muck Peter is the most intereting and humerous person in Liz s childhood in Liz world He always had ideas It was because of him that Liz know there s another wa
6、y of being 生存之路 Peter Father Peter QUATATIONS Lisa Murray Sister Lisa Murray She is Liz s sister the girl with the same fate as Liz She had been raped 强奸 by her grandfather She is Liz s friend The girl who had the same experience as Liz was also sent to a domestic group home 教养所 She had a painful ex
7、perience of being raped by her father Chris Friend Chris QUATATIONS Liz Murray Piogonist Liz Murray Liz Murray was born in 1980 in the Bronx New York City At 15 Liz was homeless She spent two years of her senior high school years in the homeless street and she was admitted to harvard with an excelle
8、nt score and won the first class scholarship of the New York times She is Liz s teacher It was him who gave Liz the chance to be born again climbing out of the bad situation He appreciated Liz very much and helped her a lot David Teacher David THEMES 3 3 QUATATIONS THEMES A Dream C Jump out of comfo
9、rt zone B Efforts D LOVE PLOTS 4 4 POLT 1 Childhood Both her father and her mother took drugs Because of drug addiction they have no ability to work and earn money As a result they have no money to pay house rent and no money to buy food and water They lived in an abandoned house without money What
10、they drank is tap water Liz and her sister often felt hungry When Liz was 8 years old she started going out to beg and sometimes when she was too hungry to bear it she would pick up food from the garbage can What s worse her mother would earn money by prostitution if she had no money to buy drugs an
11、d felt herself out of control to go crazy POLT 1 Childhood She s full of lice 虱子 wearing very dirty underwere She was disliked by others Therefore she was unwilling to go to school As a result she was sent to group home People there had the tendency to be violent They bullied her and others Even som
12、e people poured sulfuric acid into other people s body wash 沐浴露 causing disfigureation 毁 容 POLT 2 15 YEARS OLD She grew up gratually And then she met Chris They became good friends They both didn t like the environment at school or home They decided to go vagabonding 流浪 They were homeless sleeping o
13、n the subway begging stealing It was not until her mother s death of AIDS that Liz awoke 觉悟 POLT 3 17 YEARS OLD She was the last person to leave school and the first to come to school She has ten courses in one semester the regular 5 and the saturday programming the night school franch and the after
14、 school science You ll kill yourself you know She studied as well as worked She works part time while she studies She slept in the subway for hours at night The B train took 70 minutes to do its entire run she would be back 4 times everyday POLT 4 IN 1996 The ending At last she was sent to visit har
15、vard with excellent grades The people here were so good and different that she wants to be equal to them and not under them She used every bit of her potential to do it In the end she got excellent marks in the school She earned a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored
16、by the New York Times 5 5 CLASSICAL QUATATIONS QUATATIONS 1 如果我不顾一切发挥每一点潜能去做会怎样 我必须做到 我别无选择 I will use my every potential to do that I just always knew that I need to get out I have to do it I have no choice 2 世界在转动 你只是一粒尘埃 没有你地球照样在转 现实是不会按照你 的意志去改变的 The world is changing while you re just a stardust The earth turns arround with or without you Reality doesn t change according to your will 3 有些人的需求 有些人的信念会比你的更强烈 Someone else s needs someone else s plate is going to be stronger than yours is 4 生活的
