杀死一只知更鸟英文简介.ppt

To Kill a Mockingbird《杀死一只知更鸟》 Introduction To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the American life during the Depression,showing the life in a small town in South America through the visual angle of two children, Jem and Scout. The Movie,To Kill a Mockingbird, was made in 1962,which was adapted from a best-selling novel of the same title written by a woman writer,Harper Lee. The Author Harper Lee grew up in Alabama in April 28,1926,the daughter of a lawyer.She was educated in the South,moved to New York in the 1950s, took a job as an airline reservations clerk,and wrote her first and the only novel during that time.To Kill a Mockingbird,published in 1960,won a Pulitzer Prize,and is still admired,widely-taught,and beloved. Jem Scout Jem and Scout’s father,Atticus Finch who is a single father and also an attorney defends a black man who is wrongly accused of the rape of a white woman.Atticus is the image of a great hero and the representative of benevolence and justice in the ordinary world Tom Robinson Mayellas father Bob Ewell The Plot In the book,an adult Scout ( Jean Louise Finch) reflects on growing up during the Depression in fictitious(虚构的) Maycomb,Alabama,with her older brother,Jem,and her father,Atticus.Calpurnia,their black maid,has taken care of Scout’s family since her mother died when Scout was two years old. During the three-year span of the novel,Scout and Jem,with Atticus’s guidance,learn about the world around them. The first section of the novel,which is divided into two parts,begins with the narrator reflecting on the year that her brother’s arm was broken, and she attempts to trace the events that led to the accident.She describes her lineage(血统),the major families that make up Maycomb, and the caste system(等级制度) that is deeply embedded into the psyche(灵魂) of all who live there.When Scout is six,she and Jem meet Dill,a boy who has come from Meridian,Mississippi,to spend the summer with his aunt.Together,the children devise