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Unit 4
Unit 4 Friends forever
To understand the meaning of the passage
To learn the features of a novel
To master the language points
Do you know about O. Henry
O. Henry
欧·亨利(O.Henry1862年9月11日-1910年6月5日)，又译奥·亨利，原名威廉·西德尼·波特(William Sydney Porter)，美国短篇小说家、美国现代短篇小说创始人，其主要作品有《麦琪的礼物》《警察与赞美诗》《最后一片叶子》《二十年后》等。
1862年9月11日，欧·亨利生于美国北卡罗莱纳州格林斯伯勒，曾当过银行职员、药剂师等。1910年6月5日，欧·亨利因肝硬化在美国纽约去世。欧·亨利与契诃夫和莫泊桑并列世界三大短篇小说巨匠，曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父，他的作品有"美国生活的百科全书"之誉。
O. Henry was an American writer whose short stories are known for wit（风趣）, wordplay（文字游戏） and clever twist endings（巧妙地扭转结局）. He wrote nearly 600 stories about life in America.
The father of the modern American short story
American life humor encyclopedia (百科全书)
Short prose writer laureate as Manhattan 曼哈顿桂冠散文作家
Have you read any stories by O. Henry Share one with the class.
O. Henry – style endings
O. Henry’s stories are best known for their twists or surprise endings. So much so that people now refer to such endings as “O. Henry endings”. In these endings, there will be a sudden twist that results in an unexpected change of the characters’ inner world, experience, destiny, etc, thus creating an unexpected yet understandable result. Such endings will make the story more appealing and dramatic, as well as more memorable for its readers.
Do you like stories with surprise ending Why or why not
Bob and Jimmy had been close friends twenty years ago when they were young. Before their separation, they made an appointment to meet again at exactly the same place and the same hour twenty years later. But when they met, one arrested the other.
Why the man is standing outside the shop
Because he is waiting for his friend Jimmy.
Read the passage again, tell your partner in the man’s eyes, how is his friend.
Work in groups. Think of a possible ending to “After Twenty Years” and find evidence to support your ideas. Use the following questions to help you.
1. Did Jimmy come to meet his friend
2. What has Jimmy experienced over the past twenty years
3. What might happen between the
policeman and the man
Bob, I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job.
JIMMY
Now read the note from the original ending and find out what actually happened.
Bob was arrested by his friend!
1 What does the note tell you about the ending of the story
2 How do you think Bob would react when he read the note
3 Do you think that Jimmy did the right thing Why or why not
4 Do you like this ending Give your reasons.
Jimmy was the policeman. He turned up as they agreed twenty years earlier, but he decided to fulfil his duty and have Bob arrested.
Work in groups. Act out the whole story.
1. Think about what happened in each of the three scenes, using the information you have already read in the story. Retell the whole story.
Scene 1:
Bob dining with Jimmy at “Big Joe” Brady’s twenty years ago
Scene 2:
Bob making his fortune in the West
Scene 3:
Bob and Jimmy meeting again after twenty years
The story is about two friends named Bob and Jimmy. Twenty years ago, …
2. Choose a character to play and decide what you will say and do.
3. Act out the whole story.
Search online using these key words:
After Twenty Years
O. Henry’s short stories
surprise endings
