高级英语第6课blackmail.pptVIP

Lesson Six 背景知识 徐琳 课文1-59 张俊洋 课文60-109 高妍 修辞 孔令霞 objectives To understand the whole text To learn the Character analysis To comprehend the implied meaning The text The End of the Story (Blackmail) At one oclock Thursday morning, Ogilvie drove the car north. But he was seen leaving the hotel by McDermott. Later in the afternoon, McDermott witnessed the funeral of the two victims of the accident. He suddenly realized the relation between these two events and contacted police. Ogilvie was caught in Tennessee and sent back to New Orleans. The Duke decided to go to the police to confess his crime (to surrender himself / to give himself up). But he was hurled out the elevator due to the breakdown of it. He hit the cement ground and died instantly. Arthur Hailey(1920-2004) ●Born in England ●Began his writing career while an RAF (British Royal Air Force) pilot during the Second World War ●Became a Canadian citizen as well as British ●Hailey’s novels have been published in thirty-nine languages ●Most of his books have been made into films or TV series Background information Born in Lupton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full- time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight). Following the success of Hotel during 1965, he moved to California; in 1969, he moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and U.S. income taxes, which were claiming 90% of his income. Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants. Critics often dismissed Haileys success as the result of a formulaic potboil