UNIT seven The Chaser讲义.ppt

Highlights The text is a story tells a young man who falls in love one-sidedly is seldom right enough to win a young lady’s heart. He went to an old man to buy love lotion for the girl he fancies. The conversation between the young man and the old man indicates serious philosophy. One of the moral lessons the text contains is anything precious, love included, is most likely to have an end. A person can easily The passage can be divided into three parts. Part One: (Paragraph 1) The first paragraph describes a timid, skeptical and hesitant character, Alan Austen. Part Two: (Paragraphs 2-12) The old man is trying to sell his mixture. Paragraph 2 indicates the young man is very nervous and timid. Paragraph 3 from the greeting of the old man, it indicates the old man is expecting Alan’s arrival. The following paragraphs implies the experienced old man had encountered many young men who had been in the grip of romantic desire before, but who eventually got tried of the possessive love they had experienced. He knew for sure that Austen’s possessive love would not last long. It would eventually bore and anger him. He expected that when his enthusiastic passion changed into hatred,Austen would come to him again, because he had already seen those disillusioned customers return to buy the “chaser” so that they could be free from the women for whom they had previously bought the love potion. Part Three: (Paragraphs 13-45) This part mainly developed through the dialogue between the old man and Alan. Alan got to know about the love potion and in the end bought it. For Alan, love means entirely passion for lover. The surprising ending suggests that the wise old man had a good understanding of men like Austen: they were filled with illusion about love but once in the possession of this love, they were most likely to be tormented to such a degree that they would like to buy the life-cleaner. The cynical tone of the ol