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Education:

studiedphilosophyatauniversityof

Cairo,graduatingin1934.

Job:

inuniversityadministration

asacivilservant

asajournalist（记者）

Influence:

1stArabtowintheNobelPrizeforliteraturein1988

describedas"

aDickensoftheCairocafé

s"

and"

theBalzacofEgypt"

.

Halfofhisnovelshavebeenmadeintofilms

Works:

nofewerthan30novels,morethan100shortstories,andmorethan200articles

●theCairoTrilogyin1957

●ChildrenofGebelawiin1959（Prizenovelforthereasonthat"

who,throughworksrichinnuance-nowclear-sightedlyrealistic,nowevocativelyambiguous-hasformedanArabiannarrativeartthatappliestoallmankind"

（他通过大量刻画入微的作品—洞察一切的现实主义，唤起人们树立雄心—形成了全人类所欣赏的阿拉伯语言艺术）

●theThiefandtheDogsin1961《小偷与狗》

●SmallTalkontheNilein1966《尼罗河上的絮语》

AbouttheHalfaDay

●FirstpublishedinArabicin1989aspartofashortstorycollectionentitledTheFalseDawn.

●IncludedinanEnglish-languagecollectionentitledTheTimeandthePlacein1991.

●Belongstohislaterphaseandcharacterizedbyashiftfromsocialrealismtoamoremodern,experimentalmodeofwriting.

●Anallegoricaltaleimplicatesacommentaryonthehumancondition;

anentirelifespanisexperiencedasonly'

'

halfaday'

intheschooloflifeandalsoalludestothecycleoflife,wherebythenarratorpassesthroughchildhood,middleageandoldageinthecourseofoneday.

●Usesastrategycommonlyusedinfictionwriting–theprotagonistreturnsafterbeingabsentforashorttimetofindeverythingchangedbeyondrecognition.ThebestexampleisRipVanWinkle,ashortstorybyAmericanwriter,WashingtonIrving.

●Thistechniqueisoftenusedtoemphasizerapidchangesinsociety.

Structure

●Plot故事情节:

alittleboy’sfirsttimetogotoschool

●Setting背景:

onthewaytoschool

atschool

onthewayhome

●Protagonist/Narrator主人公/讲述人:

“I”–theboyinthestory

●Themeofthestory主题:

rapidchangesinsociety

DetailedAnalysis—para1

S1---Iwalkedalongsidemyfather,clutchinghisrighthand.

1.What’sthefunctionofthe–ingformclutchinghisrighthand?

2.Whoclutchedhisrighthand?

3.Canyoufindsomeother–ingforminthispassage

whosefunctionisthesameasclutchinghisright

hand?

S2---Allmyclotheswerenew:

theblackshoes,thegreenschooluniform,andtheredcap.

S3---Theydidnotmakemehappy,however,asthiswasthedayIwastobethrownintoschoolforthefirsttime.

1.WhatdoesTheyreferto?

2.WhatisthefunctionoftheclauseIwastobethrownintoschoolforthefirsttime?

3.Canyouidentifythesentencetype?

Simplesentence,Compoundsentence

Complexsentenceor

Compound-complexsentence

4.What’sthepartofspeechofhowever?

DetailedAnalysis—para2

S1---Mymotherstoodatthewindowwatchingourprogress,andIturnedtowardsherfromtimetotime,hopingshewouldhelp.

1.Canyouidentifythesentencetype?

2.Canyoufindthelogicalsubjectofthepresent

participlephraseswatchingourprogressand

hopingshewouldhelp?

3.Whatdoyougetfromthephrasehopingshe

wouldhelp?

4.Whatdoeswatchingourprogressmean?

S2---Wewalkedalongastreetlinedwithgardensandfieldsplantedwithcrops,pears,anddatepalms.

1.What’sthefunctionoflinedwithgardensand

plantedwithcrops?

2.Canyouputintheomittedpartsoflinedwith

gardensandplantedwithcrops?

3.Canyoufindsomemoreinthispassage?

S2---Wewalkedalongastreetlinedwithgardens,andfieldsplantedwithcrops:

pears,anddatepalms.

3.Fromabove,canyousummarizethesimilarities

ofallthesesentences?

DetailedAnalysis—para3

S1---"

Whyschool?

"

Iaskedmyfather."

WhathaveIdone?

”

1.What’sthefeelingoftheboy?

2.What’stheellipticalsentence?

3.Whatistherhetoricalquestion?

Summary—para1-3

Whatdoyougetfromtheseparagraphs?

●Theboy’sfeeling

Helpless—newclothesdidnotmakemehappy

Thrownintoschool

Fromtimetotime

Hopingshewouldhelp

Whyschool?

WhathaveIdone?

DetailedAnalysis—para4

S3---It'

saplacethatmakesusefulmenoutofboys.

1.make…（out）ofsb/sth:

causesb/sthtobeorbecomesth使某人[某事物]处於某状况或变成某事物:

使其成为争论之点.

Eg.We'

llmakeafootballerofhimyet.

我们还是要把他造就成优秀的足球运动员

Don'

tmakeahabitofit/Don'

tmakeitahabit.不要养成那样的习惯.

2.Whatisthefunctionofthatmakesusefulmenoutofboys?

Canyoufindsomemoreinthispassage?

DetailedAnalysis—para5

S2---Ididnotbelievetherewasreallyanygoodto