新娘来到黄天镇.ppt

Brife introduction of the writer and the setting ;Brife Introduction of the Writer;His first book, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets(1893) was the first naturalist novel written by an American. Then he turned his attention to more popular topics and wrote The Red Badge of Courage (1895). The book was serialized by a newspaper syndicate, and Crane became an international celebrity at age 24. In 1898,Crane wrote The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky , one of his Western short stories. ;Setting;Part One ;Narrative Angle; Jack Potter with his new bride aboard a luxury train, coming back from San Antonio, heads back to Yellow Sky with a feeling of tension. ; Part Two ; Part Three; Scratchy stops Jack and his bride and points his gun to Jacks face just before they arrive at their house. The situations deadlocked until Jack tells Scratchy that he doesn’t take a gun and he is married. ; Part Five;Theme Analysis ;;Style and Technique Analysis;Techniques 1:Narrative angle @1 Non-linear narrative 非线性叙事 (Two-lane structure （非线性平行叙事）=双线结构 The two-lane structure means narrating a story about two people or more at the same time and meanwhile combine it to a complete one through a certain relationship.12:17----15:42 The potter’s had lunch in the dining car with complicated feelings of excitement and tension ,as well as, killed their time on the train by enjoying the view out of window and chatting. Meanwhile, in different space, six men were drinking and chatting with each other in the bar in Yellow Sky but forced to interrupt their daily life because of a drunken man named Wilson. ;;;Character Analysis Bride;Jack Potter;Scratchy Wilson;;;;;谢谢！