大学英语之泛读教程第二册unit 8.pptVIP

Passage 19 – Fast Reading B, A, D, C, A, B, C offshore investments changed privacy policy Passage 19 – Cloze N, A, G, E, D M, H, K, B, I Hakkanese couldn’t seem to care less than Taiwanese do Hakkanese couldn’t seem to care less Careful Reading – Passage 19 Taken from “Feathertop: A Moralized Legend”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852 Part I: Mother Rigby was a witch. Part II: Mother Rigby created a scarecrow and named it Feathertop. Part III: Mother Rigby made Feathertop live like a man. Plot Summary In seventeenth century New England, the witch Mother Rigby builds a scarecrow to protect her garden. She is so taken with her own handiwork that she whimsically decides to bring the scarecrow to life and send it into town to woo Polly Gookin, the daughter of Judge Gookin, toward whom Mother Rigby bears an unspecified grudge. Once the stuffed man does come alive, Mother Rigby gives him the appearance of a normal human being - and a pipe, on which the Scarecrow must puff to keep himself alive. Judge Gookin meets the Scarecrow, whom Mother Rigby has named Feathertop. Feathertop is introduced to Polly, and the two begin to fall in love. But when Polly and Feathertop gaze into a bewitched mirror, they see Feathertop reflected as a scarecrow, not as a man. Polly faints, and the now-terrified and anguished Scarecrow rushes back to Mother Rigby, where, knowing himself utterly rejected by Polly, he deliberately breaks his pipe and collapses in a lifeless heap. Mother Rigby reflects, There are thousands upon thousands of coxcombs and charlatans in the world, made up of just such a jumble of wornout, forgotten, and good-for-nothing trash as he was! Yet they live in fair repute, and never see themselves for what they are, and decides that her son is better off as merely a scarecrow. Literary style and themes Many of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works are inspired by Puritan New England, combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychologica