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* Juv – Young 返老回春 Re-juvenile

* Ori – Beginning

* Ini – get started, beginning

* Em – Blood

* Pro – In favor of

* Governess 奴僕階級的最高位、沒有先生或小孩的女人但是有一點知識基礎
            (spin = 沒有知識基礎)

* Young Adult Fiction

            Name of the book (underline); Author

            Usually the themes are: Life/Death; Dream/Adventure; Love/Lost
            Elements includes: Character, plot, setting, theme, style = telling what is the
            story about; usually it appeal more readily to younger reader (ex. fantasy,
            adventure)

* Author Chekhov (為愛朗讀)
            如果能把握知識，就能夠掌握權力 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRN3ItJhvxs

* The Whole World is a Garden (雨果的冒險)
            Everyone meant to be here on the Earth, here to make the world work. Find 
            yourself and flourish the garden. 再怎麼糟糕的人也是有原因才會來到這個世界上，找到          
         自我 (Identity)

 

* Problem Novel – Identity problem, finding “who am I”

* Lie to me – looking at the facial expression and you would know if people’s lying

* Coming of age – nature transition from childhood to adulthood; 時間到了就要長大
            (how characters resolve problems or encounter them to grow up); usually
            the themes will include: love, school works… etc. Topics that varies in the society.
            ex. Bildungsroman (主角所接受到的考驗使他成長)

* Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

            A young man named Holden Caulfield narrates this novel. He has been dropped-
            off by the school for three times, and this story takes place in the few days
            between the end of the fall school term and Christmas during his third drop-off.
            The novel discussed about alienation (the loneliness of a child, ex. the red left-
            handed baseball mitt), and also loss of innocence, where the character finds it
            painful to grow up where he does not like to see the phoniness in the adults’ world. 

            Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSL_3wZJPoc 

* Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

            It is about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to
            govern themselves. Themes includes: civilization/savagery (how human beings
            are grouped together by moral commands or rules); Loss of innocence (growing
            up by seeing the reality world and resolve all the problems they’ve face)

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark 

 of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”  - Mr. Antolini (The Cather in the Rye)