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1、无声告白语录篇一：Everything I Never Told You无声告白简析 Good afternoon everyone! Im standing here to give my groups presentation. The book we read is Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. During the following time I will introduce this book from mainly 4 aspects and we will see what these four aspects are l
2、ater. Introduction (author book) I guess almost all of you dont know this author because I did not know her at all until we chose her book. I will tell you some specific information about her. Celeste Ng (Chinese Name: 伍綺詩) is an Chinese American writer and novelist. She has released many short stor
3、ies that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ngs first novel, Everything I Never Told You: A Novel, was released on June 26, 2021 and has won many awards such as Amazon Book of the year as wells as praise from critics. Celeste Ngs parents moved from Hong Kong, China in the late 60
4、s. Her father was a physicist at NASA in the John H Glenn Research Center. Celestes mother was a chemist who taught at Cleveland State University.Ng studied English at Harvard. She then attended graduate school at University of Michigan where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in writing. (From Wiki
5、pedia) Main characters James Lee: Lydias father. Professor in Middlewood University. He is aChinese American, whose parents were the first generation immigrated to America. Growing up in a “racial discrimination” environment and always being totally different with everyone, he always tries to blend
6、inthem and be the same with them.Maybe thats why he chose to marry Marilyn. This makes him coward and self-abased. He never faces the reality, on contrary, he always escapes from it. Marilyn: Lydias mother.A housewife.She is a white woman, growing up in a single parent family. Unlike James, she want
7、s to be different all the time.And that is partly why she fights against gender inequality and fell in love with James. Because she didntrealize her own dream, she pushes her wishes on her little daughter, Lydia, and gives her much pressure. She is very controlling and adventurous. Nathan: Lydias ol
8、der brother. Nath is the first child of Marilyn and James. He holds on to his dream and finally makes it come true-enter Harvard to study astronantics. He is a quite sensitive boy and he is dissatisfied with his parents preference for Lydia. But at the same time, he likes her sister very much. Hanna
9、h:Lydias younger sister. Hannah is the youngest child but she is the most watchful one. She is always ignored by the whole family, so she longs for love and she is sensitive to love. She knows everything but she just keeps secrets for everyone. Jack:Lydias companion. Jack is the Lees neighbor. He pr
10、etends to bedandiacal but thats only his way to hide himself and his feelings towards Nath. He is actually a kind and sensitive boy. Louisa:Assistant of Lydias father. She is a Chinese American. She is studying at graduate school. She has a crush on James and they have an affair for about 2 months a
11、fter Lydias death. Causes of death: Family influence(life experience) 1957 James, the academically gifted child of Chinese immigrants spent his entire life yearning to belong and went on to become a university professor, where he met Marilyn in 1957 in a class he was teaching on American culture at
12、Harvard. Meanwhile, Marilyn grew up disgusted by her homemaker mother and longed to become a doctor. When she met James and recognized the racist treatment he had been receiving, Marilyn immediately felt a kinship with him and the two began an affair. Discovering she was pregnant, she arranged for a
13、 quick marriage to James and was disgusted when her mother tried to stop the wedding after seeing that James was of Asian descent. ? Influence on Lydia:James always wants to be the same with others and Marilyn always wants to be different. Thats why they chooseeach other as their partner. The enviro
14、nment where both of them grow up makes them the same kind of person, who doesnt know how to communicate with and express love to each other . Therefore, they love Lydia but they expressed their love in a wrong way. They forced Lydia to obey their willing. James, Lydias father, cannot blend into the
15、white, therefore, he kept putting force on Lydias interpersonal skills, urge Lydia to blend in the white community which made Lydia stressful. Marilyn, Lydias mother, felt regretful stopping pursuit her dream to become a woman doctor, so she hoped that Lydia could continue her dream and become an ex
16、cellent doctor, which brought greater pressure on Lydia. They both cannot set a good example for Lydia, they cannot teach Lydia how to love and be lovable. Growing up in such a family environment, Lydiaalways got confused and miserable.1966 Marilyn intended to go back and continue her studies to become a doctor after her son, Nathan, was born, but after a second pre
