3/06
* Common themes:
1. Life / Death 2. Love / Lost 3. Dream / Adventure
*Pentagon 五角形 [penta = 5]
* Foul temper, Foul words à stop swearing (不要罵髒話)
* Fame = 名聲; imfamous (臭名滿天下, doesn’t have good reputation)
* Bizarre = French word; (adj.) very strange or unusual; ex. a bizarre situation.
* I am here; “Here I am”
à The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. One night when Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord, the Lord called Samuel. Samuel thought it was Eli who called him, however Eli tells him that he never have called him. Until the third time when Samuel heard someone calling him, Eli finally realized that the Lord was calling Samuel, he told him to reply the Lord saying: “speak, Lord, for your servant is listening”. Samuel follows what Eli had offered him to do, and the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle. At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family – from beginning. For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God, and he failed to restrain them. Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.”
* Notting Hill à “I am just a girl, standing in front of a boy, telling him to love her.”
* The Wing of the Dove: when a young girl facing her challenges and retreating her identity throughout the story. à “You completed me”; “You had me at ‘hello’”
* When I was one and twenty (什麼都可以給一個男人，但是不能給你全部的愛)
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free.” [fancy = 思想]
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
‘This paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and twenty,
And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true.
*The Little Mermaid – Part of Your World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBa9QlzEWA4
* Smokes go into your eyes (when Holden finally wakes up again and found himself inside of the ‘white’ room/mental hospital)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBboBz3yoc
* Catcher in the Rye
Catcher in the Rye is a story happening between the end of the fall school term and Christmas, when Holden is sixteen years old undergoing treatment in a mental hospital. The story begins on the Saturday while watching a football game. Holden has failed four out of five classes and he has received notice that he is being expelled, therefore he decides to no returning home but going somewhere else. On the train to New York, he meets the mother of one of his fellow Pencey students, and he found out the phoniness of a adult. After he gets into a cab, he then asks the driver where the ducks are. We can see how innocent Holden still is, and the way he is comparing himself to the ducks wishing to have freedom. After his long journey experiencing whole lots of the adult world, he goes to Phoebe’s school and sends her a note saying that he is leaving home for good and that she should meet him at lunch time at the museum. When Phoebe arrives, she is carrying a suitcase full of clothes and would like to leave home with Holden. He refuses to take her with him, however, his sister follows him while he walk. He decided to buy her ticket and watch her ride on the merry-go-round. Even though it starts to rain heavily, but Holden is so happy watching his sister ride the carousel that he is close to tear. Holden ends his story here with the song of “Smokes go into Your Eyes”, and found himself back to the mental hospital, which he called it home because of his sickness. He does not admire the phoniness of the adult world; rather, he would like to be the catcher to protect the innocent inside of everyone.
