文學作品導讀week5

1. vocabulary

 

Resort: a place to which people frequently or generally go for

relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and

recreation facilities for vacationers

 

-ant: causing or performing an action or existing in a certain

condition

For example:

Flight attendant:

 

Applicant: a person who applies for or requests something

Protestant: any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic,

Anglican, or Eastern Church.

Accountant: a person whose profession is inspecting and auditing

personal or commercial accounts.

 

Narrative(n.): a story or account of events, experiences, or the like,

whether true or fictitious.

 

Spect- : to look

For example:

Inspect (v.): to look carefully at or over

Spectator: a person who looks on or watches

Spectacular (adj.): marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.

 

Omni-: all

Omnipresent: present everywhere at the same time

Omnipotent: having very great or unlimited authority or power.

 

 

2. Movie:

The Reader (trailer)

It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a mid-teenager

in 1958 had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then

disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war

crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration

camp.

 

Schindler's List (Trailer)

The film is based on the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman

who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees

during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

 

3. 3C, an abbreviation often used in Taiwan for "computer, communication,

and consumer electronics"

 

4. Will McBride

Will McBride was an American photographer in reportage, art photography

and book illustration as well as a painter and sculptor.

 

Coming of age

Coming of Age is a widely noticed 1999 photographic art book by

photographer Will McBride.

The book primarily contains pictures of males in their teens. Some

of the pictures are nude pictures.

 

 

5. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer

who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career:

"Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."