week5

A. Prefix,Suffix&Root

fra-：to break

­ fragile (a.)：

1.easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail

2.vulnerably delicate, as in appearance

­ fragment(n.)：

1.a part broken off or detached

2.an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part

omni-：all

­ omniscient(a.)：having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.

-ee：

1.someone who is being treated in a particular way

2.someone who is in a particular state or who is doing something

­ narratee：A person or character to whom a narrative is addressed.

­ employee：A person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive level.

­ nominee：A person who is nominated as a candidate for election or for an honour or award.

B. Vocabulary

sibling rival v.s. enemy v.s. opponent

sibling rival(ry) Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among siblings, whether blood related or not.

enemy A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.

opponent Someone who competes with or opposes another in a contest, game, or argument.

C. Frailty, thy name is woman. –Hamlet

Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet, within a month— Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!—

D. Grendel-John Gardner

Grendel is a 1971 novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.

E. 1984-George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. The superstate and its residents are dictated to by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism, shortened to "Ingsoc" in Newspeak, the government's invented language. The superstate is under the control of the privileged elite of the Inner Party, a party and government that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime", which is enforced by the "Thought Police".

F. The five part of plot

G. The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton: Book Trailer

                         

H. Verona, Italy

Verona is a city on the Adige river in Veneto, northern Italy, with approximately 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third largest in northeast Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona covers an area of 1,426 km2 and has a population of 714,274 inhabitants. It is one of the main tourist destinations in northern Italy, owing to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows, and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans.

I. Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

J. Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.