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1、省级精品课程 高级英语第三版第一册制作人：徐李洁Lesson 3By By Arthur HaileyArthur HaileyTeaching Aims To enable students to appreciate the story. To help students analyze the plot, theme and characterization To help students enlarge vocabulary, esp.,colloquial English, slang and ungrammatical English.Arthur Hailey (1920-20
2、04)- born in England;- began his writing career while anRAF（British Royal Air Force ）pilot during the Second WorldWar; - became a Canadian citizen aswell as British; -Haileys novels have been published in thirty-nine languages.-An estimated 160 million copies are in print worldwide. - Most of his bo
3、oks have been madeinto films or TV series. Major works :Flight into Danger (with John Castle (1958) ) The Final Diagnosis (1959)In High Places (1960)Hotel (1965)Airport (1968)Wheels (1971) The Moneychangers (1975)Strong Medicine (1975)The Evening News (1990)Detective (1997)Pre-reading questions 1) W
4、hat happens in the story?2) When is the climax of the story?3) What is the theme of the story? 4) Who are the main characters? The story of Hotel: The setting: the St. Gregory Hotel, the largest in New Orleans, Louisiana. From Monday to Friday. The Hotel is experiencing a crisis of being forced to b
5、e sold to a chain hotel owner. The events: in the crisis, there are four knotty problems that face the Hotel managers: dealing with an attempted rape in a room; catching a thief operating in the hotel; several hundreds of dentists threatening to leave the hotel in protest against the hotel objection
6、 to serving a black dentist, and finally the case of the Duke of Croydon. The end: The novel ends with a pleasant surprise. A sick, old, eccentric man staying in the hotel turns out to be an extremely wealthy man from Montreal, Canada. Earlier, he fell seriously ill and was saved by Peter and his gi
7、rlfriend. To show his gratitude and to repay their kindness, he buys the hotel from its former owner and makes Peter the new executive vice-president, with complete authority to run the hotel as he thinks fit.Synopsis (概要)/ PlotThe Duke and the Duchess of Croydon occupy a luxury suite in St. Gregory
8、 Hotel in New Orleans. On Monday evening, while driving back with his wife, the Duchess, from a gambling house, the Duke knocks down a woman and her child. Both of them are killed. They drive away. The hit-and-run becomes sensational news in the city. Ogilvie, the chief house detective of the hotel,
9、 the blackmailer in the story, notices the battered car when it drives back into the garage of the hotel. Instead of reporting this to the police, he goes to see the Duke and the Duchess. He blackmails them for a large sum of money as the price of his keeping silent. The Duchess does not admit the c
10、rime until the detective produces a lot of evidences. Considering that only by removing the battered car can they be completely out of trouble, the Duchess offers to pay Ogilvie twice more than he has asked for and in return, he should drive the battered car to Chicago in the north. Ogilvie, under t
11、he lure of the large sum of money, takes the offer.Textual StructurePara 1 21 Were getting somewherePara 22 55 You came here to blackmail usPara 56 101 Twenty-five thousand dollarsPara 102 109 The rest of the textThe development of the storySection One (1-21): The Duchess denying the crimeSectionTwo
12、(22-55): Ogilvies presenting evidencesSection Three(56-101): NegotiatingSection Four(102-109): Making a dealClimax: But we will pay you twenty-five thousand dollars.Clue of appreciation of the story Striving for the dominance of the situationbetween the Duchess and Ogilvie The symbolic sign of Ogilv
13、ies cigar CharacterizationDramatic change of dominance of the situation 1. Before the evidence is shown: Duchess Ogilviesharp, firm, arrogant offensive, challenging dominant, controlling -balance-balance- 2. After the evidence is shown:surrendered, collapsed(gradually weak) -off-balance-off-balance-
14、 strong, dominantThe Duchess Ogilvie3. Negotiating calm, friendly calm, friendly-balance-balance-4. Making a dealpowerful, demanding submissive, obedient-off-balance- -off-balance-The symbolic sign of Ogilvies cigarPara 3, 5: -A wave of cigar smoke accompanied Ogilvie inWould you kindly put that out
15、-Taking his time, Ogilvie removed the offending cigar, knocked off the ash and flipped the butt toward an he ignored it. Para 16:-He took out a fresh cigar and bit off the end Para 21-23-he lit the fresh cigar-took his time, leisurely puffing a cloud of blue cigar smoke, his eyes sardonically onas if challenging her objection
