潜鸟社会背景.ppt

The Natural Settings of  the Loons Natural setting Paragraph 1 (开场描写) Paragraph17（别墅景色） Paragraph39（钻石湖景致） Paragraph73（结尾重返钻石湖） Paragraph 1 The beginning of the article is a detailed description of the scenery, making clear the place where the story took place. (Manakawa) The scrub oak and grey-green willow··· (beautiful scenery ) As the Tonnerres had increased, ··· rusty tin cans. (the disordered and dirty living environment of the family) The poor condition of their living is a hint of the miserable ending of Piquette. Meanwhile, it indistinctly included the fact that the Metis were oppressed. the year that Riel was hung ··· long silence.( vaguely implied Piquette’s plight ) Paragraph17(description of summer cottage) The spruce trees, ferns, raspberry bushes, moss, wild strawberry, white flowers, moose antlers, the fragrance and the glistening water occupied the cottage, presenting a natural and villatic(田园的) landscape. The author spent a lot of words describing and embellishing the place, because it is the place where the climax of the story happened and the loons, the main clue of the novel, lived. In addition, it forms a sharp contrast with the ending of the article—hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs. It suggested the relentless damage that human caused to the natural environment and the loons’ habitat. Thus , they had to leave or even die. Paragraph39 The article reached its climax when Vanessa went up to the lake and listened the birds. Actually, the description of the plaintive crying of loons and the surrounding environment is the exact reflection of the destiny of Piquette—she struggled and fighted for herself in a society which the white take the mainstream, but finally had to give in to fate as the endangered loons. Paragraph73 At night, the lake at least was the same··· it seemed too quiet, and then I realized that the