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Nettles张益霞 32010011010孙 瑾 32010011013王 静 32010011015朱云香 32010011017张丽珍 32010011022 费 娴 32010011024朱春花 32010011025 王 慧 32010011036沙雅慧 32010011037Contents 1.Alice Munro 2.Me and Mike 3.Nettles & The Bridges of Madison County 4.Animals and plants Alice Munro 费娴outlinevPart1. the brief introduction of authorvPart2. Works by Alice MunrovPart3. the outline of “nettles”vPart4. the theme of “nettles”Alice Munro(1931-)va Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canadas Governor Generals Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munros fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario and the Canadian Pacific Northwest, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her accessible, moving stories explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munros writing has established her as one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction, or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, our Chekhov. Works by Alice MunrovDance of the Happy Shades (1968) 荫影之舞，first collection of stories， Governor Generals AwardvLives of Girls and Women (1971) 姑娘们和妇女们vSomething Ive Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) 我一直想要告诉你的事vWho Do You Think You Are? (1978) 你以为自己是谁？vThe Moons of Jupiter (1982) 朱庇特的月亮Works by Alice MunrovThe Progress of Love (1986)vFriend of My Youth (1990)vOpen Secrets (1994) vSelected Stories (1996)vThe Love of a Good Woman (1998)Works by Alice MunrovHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)vNo Love Lost (2003)vVintage Munro (2004)vRunaway (2004) vCarried Away: A Selection of Stories ( 2006)vThe View from Castle Rock (2006,memoir)vToo Much Happiness (2009) （Man Booker International Prize ）vA television movie of Lives of Girls and Women was produced in 1994. 姑娘们和妇女们Alice Munro at Giller Prize ceremony of 2004. (CP file photo)vNettle: a wild plant with rough leaves that sting peoplev grasp the nettle: deal with an unpleasant situation firmly and without delay迎难而上,大胆抓棘手的问题v be nettled: be annoyed About the story “ Nettles”vThe short story “ Nettles”, which first appeared in New Yorker in 2000, is included in this book. In this story, the author uses first person narration. The plot of story evolves around a middle-aged womans reunion with a childhood boy friend in 1979, but it moves back and forth between past and present. Like most other stories by Munro, the leading actor is a woman. Outline vPart 1(para. 1-2): Meeting again by chance in 1979vPart 2 (para. 3-15): Childhood memory, her friend, Mike.vPart 3 (para. 16-93): The detailed story that happened in 1979 vPart 4 (para 94-95): conclusion- a new perception of loveThemevLife is not always smooth; love is not always sweet. Nettles are here and there in the journey of peoples life .Me and Mike 沙雅慧Boyfriend in Childhood The story begins with the narrator meets her boyfriend in childhood by chance when she is in a terrible relationship with her husband and her children. then her recollected many things about her boyfriend in childhood. Her puppy loveMike A well-driller named Mike Macallum had a son, also called Mike , who was the good friend of the narrator, when they first met, she was eight and he was nine. They had a happy time when Mikes father worked for her family. In paragraph 10, they played the game , I made weapons for Mike, and mine was the name he called. There was a keen alarm when he cry came, a wire zinging through your whole body, a fanatic feeling of devotion. From this sentence, we can see the girls feeling for Mike. The narrator likes Mike. In Chinese, we called this childhood sweetheart (青梅竹马). In paragraph 31, she saw Mike was spreading ketchup on a piece of bread, this is the first time they saw each other after the grown up, she remembered everything about Mike, even the eating habit of Mike. So, we can see that her feeling to Mike is deep. At this time, I think her feelings is still stay at the time of childhood. Therefore, she might be crazy in love with this boy, although he has a family. From paragraph 78 to 85, Mike told her a secret that he didnt tell anyone else. Its about his youngest boy. His youngest boy was run over and he was the one who ran over him. In paragraph 86, I walked a little behind him. And I did not say anything not one kind, common, helpless word. We had passes right by that. I think he told her because he put her as his most trust people. Thats enough. And after he said the secret, she didnt say anything because she knew exactly what his feeling that moment, she didnt need to say anything, maybe silence is the best choice. In paragraph 88, I knew now that he was a person who had hit rock bottom. A person who knewas I did not know, did not come near knowingexactly what rock bottom was. He and his wife knew that together and it bound them, as something like that would either break you apart or bind, for life. The narrator knew that Mike and his wife were bound together. Mike had his own wife and children, his wife kept his company, they bo。