week 5－Tina Tang的部落格

Paramount Pictures/Walden Media/TKEC/Nickelodeon Movies

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxnTVQvjCsw

omni- all powerful

omnipotent

omniscient

omnivore 雜食

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore

cannibal 食人族

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism

herbivore 草食

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore

carnivore 肉食

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore

Walden Pond

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Pond

Francis of Assisi

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi

Saint Christopher 旅遊者保護神

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher

the mass of men 芸芸眾生

The Great Gatsby

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light. He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past: in the metaphoric language used here, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the green light. This past functions as the source of their ideas about the future (epitomized by Gatsby’s desire to re-create 1917 in his affair with Daisy) and they cannot escape it as they continue to struggle to transform their dreams into reality. While they never lose their optimism (“tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . .”), they expend all of their energy in pursuit of a goal that moves ever farther away. This apt metaphor characterizes both Gatsby’s struggle and the American dream itself. Nick’s words register neither blind approval nor cynical disillusionment but rather the respectful melancholy that he ultimately brings to his study of Gatsby’s life.

(From Sparknotes:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/quotes.html)

pro- in favor of

protagonist

prolific

propaganda

Black Forest

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest