1. Lesson One Salvation

2. 1 2 2 3 4 The Important Points The Difficult Points
context 1
The Important Points 2 2
The Difficult Points
Introduction about the Author 3
Introduction about the Author
Detailed Study of the Text 4

3. The Important Points
1. Language points
salvation; go on; revival; hardened; escorted and placed; gnarled; lower lights, take somebody’s name in vain; a sea of shouting; in the name of; sin and crime; etc.

4. 3.Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
1. Language points
　2. The theme of the text
3.Structural analysis of the text
Plot:
the way the writer plans the actions of the characters
The opening The beginning of the story The conflict The climax The conflict resolved The conclusion

5. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
The opening (Pa.1): introduce the setting (the specific time and place in which a story takes place)
When:
during a revival, one night when I was going on thirteen

6. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
Where:
at a church
The beginning of the story
(Pas2-5): He has heard about Jesus from old people and waits piously for Jesus to come.

7. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
The conflict
(Pa.6): He hasn’t seen Jesus while all the young people have gone to the altar but Westley and him.

8. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
The climax
(Pa.7-10): He alone is left unsaved after Westley is “saved” by telling a lie.
The conflict resolved
(Pa ): He also tells a lie and is thus “saved” from both sin and trouble.

9. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
The conclusion (Pa. 15):
The concluding paragraph reveals the narrator's remorseful disillusionment with religion.

10. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
The revelation is satirical and indignant due to the fact that he is saved in the sense that the religious ritual has been completed or he has answered the expectations of the old people, but he is not saved in any sense of reality.

11. 3. Structural analysis of the text
The Important Points
　　3. Structural analysis of the text
Q: According to the last paragraph, do you agree with the statement that the author feels he has committed a sin by lying to everyone?

12. The Important Points surround, strike, bear articles 4. Word study
5. Grammar
articles

13. 1 2 2 3 4 The Important Points The Difficult Points
context 1
The Important Points 2 2
The Difficult Points
Introduction about the Author 3
Detailed Study of the Text 4

14. The Difficult Points
The theme of the text.

15. 1 2 2 3 4 The Important Points The Difficult Points
context 1
The Important Points 2 2
The Difficult Points
Introduction about the Author 3
Detailed Study of the Text 4

16. Langston hughes: (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)

17. 1 2 2 3 4 The Important Points The Difficult Points
context 1
The Important Points 2 2
The Difficult Points
Introduction about the Author 3
Detailed Study of the Text 4

18. 1、salvation (title) saving the soul from sin.
The word has a strong religious connotation.

19. 2、I was saved…on thirteen. But not really saved (Para.1).
---Note that the second sentence is a sentence fragment, a deviation for the sake of emphasis.

20. 3、go on (1) go on (continuous tense: be going on for)
(of age or time) be approaching; get nearer

21. 3、go on He’s going on (for) 70. It’s going on for lunch time.
I don’t know her exact age, but she may be 41 going on 42.
---“The watch must cost you half your monthly income!”
---“Not quite, but going on that way.”

22. 3、go on (2) go on (at sb.) (3) go on to sth./to do sth
rail; nag; scold
(3) go on to sth./to do sth
do or say it next; proceed to it
(4) go on with sth/doing sth
=continue, persevere with

23. 4、sin、crime (1) sin (2) crime
We talk about sin from the point of view of religion and morality.
(2) crime
associated with law

24. 5、revival
a series of meetings (called revival meetings), characterized by public confession of sins and declaration of renewed faith in religion, intended to bring back the religious enthusiasm among people.

25. 6、harden make or become hard, strong, etc. be hardened to
make insensitive to

26. 7、by leaps and bounds
very rapidly
Skip, bound, leap, spring, hop的区别

27. 8、 to bring the young lambs to the fold
to bring the children under protection and guidance of God;
to bring the children into the Christian community.

28. 9、 escorted and placed formal words
to mark the solemnity/formality of the occasion.

29. 10、ninety-nine safe in the fold
ninety-nine lambs who were safe in the fold---referring to those already in the Christian community. And therefore, those sinners who sat on the mourner’s bench including Langston Hughes belonged to the one out of a hundred. They are still wandering, straying. The preacher was calling upon them to join the church.

30. 11、work-gnarled hands
hands roughened and hardened from work and old age, hands that have become twisted, knotty---deformed

31. 12、The church sang…
　Church can be a building, a religion (the Orthodox Eastern Church) or a religious community.

32. （2）stop by the use or threat of force, for the purpose of robbery
13、 be ashamed of myself, holding everything up so long hold sb./ sth. up
（1）delay
（2）stop by the use or threat of force, for the purpose of robbery

33. 14、笑 1) grin（咧着嘴笑；露齿笑） 2) smile（微笑）: 3) laugh 4) giggle（咯咯地傻笑）
5) chuckle（暗笑）

34. 15、broke into a sea of shouting
a sea of large quantity of

35. 16、take sb’s name in vain
abuse sb’s name, use sb’s name disrespectfully

36. 16、take sb’s name in vain take God’s name in vain in the name of
1)speak of God without proper respect
2) use God’s name in cursing
in the name of
1) with the authority of
2) on behalf of

37. 17. punctuated by
interrupted by from time to time

38. 18、 for the first time in my life but one
first but one/ first but two/ first but three
next but one/ next but two/ next but three
last but one/ last but two/ last but three

39. THE END!