WEEK 18 兒童文學筆記

Final Exam

WEEK 17 兒童文學筆記

1. Information

a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.

→ 以小孩作為主角，爭取小孩讀者的認同

b. The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial form beginning in 1910, and first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett' s most popular novels, and considered a classic of English children' s literature.
At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a sickly and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. She is cared for by servants, who allow her to become a spoiled, aggressive and selfish child.
After a cholera epidemic kills her parents and the servants, Mary is discovered alive but alone in the empty house. She briefly lives with an English clergyman and his family before she is sent to Yorkshire, England to live with Archibald Craven, an uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor.
(epidemic → burst out and spread quickly)

Rejuvenation
The growth in the garden and Mary is the book's central symbol, inspired in part by Barnett's interest in Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science theories. The secret garden at Misselthwaite Manor is the site of both the near-destruction and the subsequent regeneration of a family. Using the garden motif, Burnett explores the healing power inherent in living things. (H. G. Wells's short story "The Door in the Wall" described a similarly transforming secret garden.) In a very literal sense, Mary Lennox "comes alive" as her garden does. The same goes for Colin and Mr Craven. As they tend to something outside their own sorrow, they find joy and new life. There are several direct parallels that can be drawn for the theme of rejuvenation.

c. picaresque novel

The picaresque novel is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero/heroine of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society. Picaresque novels typically adopt a realistic style, with elements of comedy and satire. This style of novel originated in 16th-century Spain and flourished throughout Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. It continues to influence modern literature. For example, Don Quixote and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

d. The adventure of Tom Sawyer

第一次：夜訪墓地，目睹殺人，出庭作證
第二次：抗議大人，偷糧，參加自己葬禮
第三次：鬼屋尋幽，撞見印地安喬，計畫獨自挖寶

e.


鄉下方言口音 (spoil 念成 spile, 口說文字ain't doing, run-on sentence) 

2. extra information

a. The Happy Prince and Other Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket".

b. Inferno

Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol.

c. Initiation

Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role. Examples of initiation ceremonies might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism or confirmation, Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, acceptance into a fraternal organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from school or recruit training. A person taking the initiation ceremony in traditional rites, such as those depicted in these pictures, is called an initiate.

d. The Fall

The fall of man, or the fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Although not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis chapter 3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life and becoming immortal.

e. Google's Mark Twain Birthday Logo

f. Don Quixote

Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites Don Quixote as authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written".

The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood.
( Don 是浪漫主義類型的， Sancho 較為理性)

在 The Lord of the Ring 裡面， Frodo and Sam的關係就很像 Don and Sancho

WEEK 16 兒童文學筆記

1. Information

a. The Little Mermaid - Pat of Your World

Maybe he's right

Maybe there is something the matter with me

I just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad

Look at this stuff

Isn't it neat?

Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?

Wouldn't you think I'm the girl

The girl who has everything?

Look at this trove

Treasures untold

How many wonders can one cavern hold?

Looking around here you'd think

Sure, she's got everything

I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty

I've got whozits and whatzits galore

You want thingamabobs?

I've got twenty!

But who cares?

No big deal

I want more

I wanna be where the people are

I wanna see, wanna see them dancin'

Walking around on those, what do you call 'em?

Oh, feet!

Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far

Legs are required for jumping, dancing

Strolling along down the, what's that word again?

Street

Up where they walk, up where they run

Up where they stay all day in the sun

Wanderin' free, wish I could be

Part of that world

What would I give if I could live out of these waters?

What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?

Bet'cha on land they understand

Bet they don't reprimand their daughters

(it means to be blamed 剛剛才被爸爸罵)

Bright young women, sick of swimmin'

Ready to stand

And ready to know what the people know

Ask 'em my questions and get some answers

What's a fire and why does it, what's the word?

Burn?

When's it my turn?

Wouldn't I love, love to explore that shore up above?

Out of the sea

Wish I could be

Part of that world

b. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 這個名字是個嘲諷 ( pun, mock)
→ 一點也不 wonderful, Oz 也不是 Wizard

c. 老師的 ppt

 

 

西雅圖的重要地標 space needle

The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, when nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators.

In the first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), the walls are green, but the city itself is not. However, when they enter, everyone in the Emerald City is made to wear green-tinted eyeglasses; this is explained as an effort to protect their eyes from the "brightness and glory" of the city, but in effect makes everything appear green when it is, in fact, "no more green than any other city". This is yet another "humbug" created by the Wizard. In this book, the Wizard also describes the city as having been built for him within a few years after he arrived. It was he who decreed that everyone in the Emerald City must wear green eyeglasses, since the first thing he noticed about Oz after he landed in his hot air balloon was how green and pleasant the country was.

 

Enough is a 2002 American thriller film directed by Michael Apted. The movie is based on the 1998 novel Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen, which was a New York Times bestseller. It stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, an abused wife who learns to fight back. Enough garnered generally negative reviews from film critics, although several aspects of the film including the actors' performances were praised. 

(電影情節也有出現 space needle ，之所以到西雅圖是因為西雅圖是溫暖的希望之城)

SUNY       紐約州立大學
CUNY       紐約市立大學
U of NY     紐約大學  (私立) → 學術地位最高

Tins man needs heart. (Because he has hollow heart)
→ 出場必備 油壺、斧頭、時鐘 

Scarecrow needs brain. (出場音樂：If I had a brain)

皆是小孩主角(尋找小孩的認同感)，都有弱勢的存在，挑戰權威，經由 special vehicle 過門到達夢奇地
(西遊記→觔斗雲    綠野仙蹤→cyclone, winged money   神隱少女→隧道，火車，白龍)
旅行文學最主要的目的是「朝聖」和「回家」

 

Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes. In the film, a team of storm chasers tries to perfect a data-gathering instrument, designed to be released into the funnel of a tornado, while competing with another better-funded team with a similar device during a tornado outbreak across Oklahoma. (向綠野仙蹤致敬)

在電影中，Dorothy 穿的是紅色的鞋子

在小說中， Dorothy 穿的是銀色的鞋子 (silver can symbolize the magical power)

Scarecrow : I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful things right?
→ 嘲諷沒有腦袋的人會做出傷天害理的事情 

d. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
 

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high

There's a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby

Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue.

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star, and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.

Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops...

That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.

Birds fly over the rainbow, why can't, why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly, beyond the rainbow,

Why, oh, why can't I?

2. extra information

a. 美國一學分要自修三小時
 
美國大學殿堂每門課至少淘汰三分之一學生，「這是對品質負責」。但反觀台灣，大學課程太好過關，就連台成清交等頂尖大學也都如此，他直言：「但老師真的教得那麼好嗎？該擔心的是，大學品管是否出問題」。

「台灣與美國的一流大學有什麼不同？美國一學分就要自修兩到三小時，老師要驗收、否則是失職。」美國學生一學期很少選超過十五學分，因每週得自修四十小時；但台灣大學生每學期甚至可選三十學分，每天自修十五小時嗎？簡直是不可能的事！」

b. 美國大學生沒有學到基本能力

part of the context :

"Growing numbers of students are sent to college at increasingly higher costs, but for a large proportion of them the gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication are either exceedingly small or empirically nonexistent," according to an excerpt of the book published in The Crhonicle of Higher Educaiton.
"These findings are sobering and should be a cause for concern."

The study, carried out by New York University sociologist and education expert Richard Arum and University of Virginia sociologist Josipa Roksa, attributed much of the problem to easy courses and lax study habits.

US students today "define and understand their college experiences as being focused more on social than on academic development," they wrote.

In a particular semester, 32 percent of those surveyed did not take any course with more than 40 pages of reading per week and 50 percent did not take a single course in which they wrote more than 20 pages.

The study cited another report as saying that students now spend just 12 to 14 hours studying each week, 50 percent less than full-time college students did a few decades ago.

c. Korean Sparkling 30-second commercial (2009)