1、Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWText Analysis 1.Theme2.Structure3.Further DiscussionWriting DeviceParallelism Sentence ParaphraseLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWThe man in the water did not have to give his rings to others;he did not even know these people.He was e
2、xtraordinary precisely because he was ordinary.He showed what everyone of us could do at that critical moment.The display of his heroism was a song to the beautiful human character.ThemeThe end of Theme.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWPart 1(Paras.13):Part 2(Paras.49):StructureThe terrible air cras
3、h in Washington,D.C.that brought people to tears and to attention and the possible reasons for the national sensation.Its the ordinary man in the water who performed the extraordinary and stunning deeds that created the emotional impact and the enduring wonder.The end of Structure.Lesson 6The Man in
4、 the WaterBTLEWMentioned in Paras.34.To be continued on the next page.Question:Who are the heroes in the story?Two police rescuers and,a young passerby and the man in the water.Further DiscussionLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWTo be continued on the next page.Question:Who is the greatest hero?Why?T
5、he man in the water.Ordinary as he was,he could rise to challenge when the test came.He displayed courage and noble character in human nature at its best.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWQuestion:In the authors view,do people feel proud or sad about the disaster?Why?They feel proud because man defea
6、ted the indifferent natural forces.To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWQuestion:What is referred to as one of mans natural powers according to the passage?Sacrificing his life for the life of others.To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWQuest
7、ion:The fight between the man in the water and the natural forces ended up with the death of the man.Why does the author say he is not a loser?He was the best we can do to fight against the indifferent natural forces.Whats more,he never dies in peoples heart.To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6
8、The Man in the WaterBTLEWWhat was unusual about the air crash?Why does the author refer to the aesthetic aspect of the clash?What are the things the author mentions to be worth noticing?What does the author mean when he says the human nature was groping and struggling?Why does the author say that th
9、e man went unidentified gave him a universal character?To be continued on the next page.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWThe end of Further Discussion.How could the man in the water give a lifeline to those who watched him?What does the“lifeline”here symbolize?What does the greatness of the anonymou
10、s man actually lie in?What do you think are the strongest human powers endowed with by nature?Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWparallelism:the use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clausesThere was the unusual element of the bridgeThen,too there was the location of
11、the eventAnd there was the aesthetic crash as wellStill,there was nothing very special,except death(Para.1)ParallelismWhat effect do you think it has here?The end of Writing Device.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWstrong,sudden movement of windWith a sharp and loud noise,Washington,the neatly well-d
12、esigned city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion.apposition phrasea sharp,loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge,stressing what met the ear Washington,the city of form and rules,turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal.(Para.1)disordered st
13、ate of unformed thingsLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWAnd there was the aesthetic clash as wellblue and green Air Florida,the name of a flying garden,sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river.(Para.1)appositionThe clash was also a clash of colours,a horrible eye-catching bination of colou
14、rs which gave an artistic effect on the horrible scene,stressing what met the eyeLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWLast Wednesday the elements,indifferent as ever,brought down Flight 90.And on that same afternoon human naturegroping and strugglingrose to the occasion.(Para.2)Last Wednesday,the bad we
15、ather,unconcerned about the consequences it might bring about as always,made Flight 90 fall down.On that same afternoon,human nature,groping for the flotation rings and struggling in the icy water,came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.made the plane fall downunconcern about
16、the consequences as alwayswas able to deal with an unexpected problem,a difficult taskLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWOf the four acknowledged heroes of the event,three are able to account for their behavior.(Para.3)Only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had don
17、e and how they had rescued the five survivors.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWOn television,side by side,they described their courage as all in the line of duty.(Para.3)as part of ones dutyIts their duty to be courageous enough to rescue people in the water.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWSkutnik
18、added that“somebody had to go into the water”,delivering every heros line that is no less admirable for being repeated.(Para.3)Skutnik gave a remark that has been said before by many people in similar situations,but it is still admirable.making every heros remarkequallyas a result ofLesson 6The Man
19、in the WaterBTLEWBut the person most responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known first as“the man in the water”.(Para.4)being the cause for Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWHis selfishness was one reason the story held national attention;his anonymity another.(Para.4)Parall
20、el structure Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWFor a while he was Everyman,and thus proof(as if one needed it)that no one is ordinary.(Para.4)Everyman,the name of a 15th-century English moral play about death and fate of mans soul,generally regarded as the best moral playThe anonymous man really repr
21、esents the best of human nature.What he did was not the act of a supernatural being,but the act of an ordinary person.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWHe was there,in the essential,classic circumstance.(Para.7)most important traditional or long established What happened that day was a typical situat
22、ion in which natural forces and man fought against each other.And when elements begin to show their power,you always find man who will fight back.He is always there.We can always expect to find such a hero.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWSo the age-old battle began again in the Potomac.For as long
23、as man could last,they went at each other,nature and man.(Para.7)foughtthe traditional idea that human civilization is a record of mans gradual conquest of natureLesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEW the one making no distinctions of good and evil,acting on no principles,offering no lifelines;the other
24、acting wholly on distinctions,principles and,perhaps,on faith.(Para.7)Man,on the other hand,has his moral standards of what is right and wrong.He must behave according to the moral principles and beliefs.Nature has no moral standards.It works on no human principles.It cares nothing about the individ
25、ual life of man.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWIn reality,we believe the opposite,and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this matter.(Para.8)Actually,the death of the man did not mean that human beings had lost the battle.In a moral sense,man had won beca
26、use mans courage to defy death was also a tremendous power.Therefore,what happened to this man in the water should fill us with pride rather than sadness.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWThe man in the water set himself against an immovable,impersonal enemy;he fought it with kindness;and he held it
27、to a standoff.He was the best we can do.(Para.9)nature,which is indifferent and cannot be persuaded to change its attitude towards mana situation in which neither side in a battle can gain an advantageto make sb.start to fight withThe end of Sentence Paraphrase.Lesson 6The Man in the WaterBTLEWThis is the end of Part Three.Please click HOME to visit other parts.
