大学英语-多媒体课件-大学英语Ⅲ-unit7 Making.pptVIP

Unit 7 Text A Life of a Salesman The Boy behind the Mask Tom Hallmans Pulitzer prize-winning series Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask tells the true, heart-wrenching story of Sam Lightner. Born with a rare disfiguring growth that covers and distorts the left side of his face, skull, and neck--Sam is determined to live a normal life.  * * The Author Tom Hallman, Jr., 45, has worked at The Oregonian for 19 years. He was born and raised in Portland. He graduated with a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in beat reporting in 1995 and feature writing in 1999. He won the 1996 ASNE Distinguished Writing Award for non-deadline writing, and the 1996 feature writing award from the National Society of Professional Journalists, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his series of articles in The Oregonian on Sam Lightner. A reporter for more than twenty-five years, Hallman has been at The Oregonian since 1980, and is currently a senior reporter specializing in features and narratives. For fourteen years, doctors refuse to operate on Sam, until an elite team of surgeons at Boston Childrens Hospital undertake a risky thirteen-hour operation to remove the malformation. Sam nearly dies on the operating table, but survives, and returns home to begin his freshman year of high school. However, when doctors discover excess fluid around his brain, Sam slips into a coma, and is not expected to live. As the family and doctors begin to give up, one doctor--pediatric neurosurgeon Monica Wehby--keeps believing, even as all hope seems lost. The only female in the boys club of neurosurgery, Dr. Wehby is scorned for refusing to accept facts and for allowing her emotions--as a woman--to cloud her medical judgment. But she perseveres, staying by Sams side, until he moves first a finger, then a foot, and finally, begins to interact with those arou