PART 4 总结反思

教师对该部分所讲内容进行总结，针对下一部分的学习布置相关任务：

Conclusion:

1. What is theme?

Theme may be the most democratic element in literature, because its definition is the least restrictive. The theme of a novel is its controlling idea or its central insight. Being an idea or an insight, the theme should be abstract and it should generalize about life. Labeled as controlling or central, the theme should be capable of unifying the whole novel.

2. What is narrator?

A narrator is the one who tells the story, often called the storyteller. But the narrator is not necessarily the novelist. Even when the novel is written in the first person, the "I" Is not the novelist, but a person invented by the novelist. The logic is that a fictional world, if disturbed person, will collapse.

3. What is omniscient narrator?

Omniscient narration differs from first person or ‘limited third person’ narration. An omniscient narrator can tell or show the reader what each character thinks and feels in a scene, freely, because she/he/it is not one of them.

Homework:

To understand the differences between points of view, study Aesop’s fable.

The Ants & the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer. At that time a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

."What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

Questions:

1. In what point of view is the fable narrated?

2. Rewrite the fable in third-person, selective omniscient point of view.