高级英语（第三版）第二册第十课 The discovery of what it means to be an American.ppt

Para 8: 1. I do not think that I could have made this reconciliation here. here: in America. I don’t think I could have accepted in America my Negro status without feeling ashamed. Once I was able to accept my role – as distinguished…from my ‘place’ – in the extraordinary drama which is America, I was released from the illusion that I hated America. my ‘place’ : as a Negro occupying the lowest place in American society. extraordinary drama which is America : metaphor, comparing all the extraordinary things that happen in America to a drama. America is a big drama. Baldwin himself plays a role in it, i.e. a nigger. I was released from the illusion that I hated America: I got rid of the illusion of hating America. I no longer hated America. The whole sentence: Once I could face my role of being a nigger in the American society, I found myself no longer hating America. Para 9: 1. … for Europe can be very crippling too. Europe can also have a very frustrating or disabling effect. 2. a writer, when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending and unpredictable battle. Crucial skirmish: a small encounter but of decisive importance metaphor, comparing a writer’s realization of self identity to a breakthrough, a crucial skirmish and a writer’s life and task to an unpredictable battle. A writer, when he discovers his specific identity in Europe, has only just managed to make a breakthrough, to win a small though crucial encounter, in the dangerous and unending struggle whose outcome one cannot yet foresee. Part Two : Para.10-16  The experience of staying in Europe helps Baldwin realize his own faults , his own identity and his own value. Para.10 In Europe, Baldwin realized it’s the high time to get rid of some habits, because these habits make him unable to function effectively. In Europe the American writer has a sense of relief from: 1) Finding reason