人教版（2019）必修 第三册Unit 5 The Value of Money背景介绍百万英镑课件(共15张PPT)

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☆The Million Pound Bank-Note
Mark Twain
1. Writing background
2. Detailed plots
3. Theme and meaning
The Million Pound Bank-Note
☆Writing Background
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The young man in million pounds is a true portrait of Mark Twain. In Nevada, Mark Twain was a reporter in Virginia, a city rich in gold and silver. Under the gold rush(淘金热） Mark Twain was not immune, and he was sensitive to rumors and new opportunities.
At that time, many miners who had discovered gold and silver mines were selling their shares(股票） in New York City to raise funds, so Mark Twain put all his savings and even all his contributions into the stock purchase of silver mine.
As the stock price rose, he became very rich and came to Los Angeles to live a luxurious life. But then one day, like the Internet bubble in the late twentieth Century, the enthusiasm of the market for silver stocks disappeared, and share prices flew down. Mark Twin, like the young man in the million pound, became penniless or even bankrupt.
Theme and Meaning
Theme: It creates money supremacy(金钱至上）, which holds that money is not only omnipotent（万能的）, but also the standard to measure all behaviors.
Meaning: This novel reflects the criticism of money worship and exposes all kinds of ridiculous phenomena existing in English society at that time.
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1.Herry was a mining-broker (矿业经纪人)and he was accustomed to venture on sea.
2.one day he ventured too far and was carried out to sea.Then he was picked up by a small brig.(双跪船）
3.Then he stepped ashore in london,seedy and hungry.
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4.The gentlemen called him and let him to get into the room.A pair of brothers bet on him.→what might be the fate of a honest and intelligent stranger who have no money but that million pound bank-note,and no way to account for his being in possesion of it.
5.The gave henry an envelope.
6.Then he went into a eating house.When he opened the envelope, he was surprised to find that it was a million notes.The restaurant staff did't want money
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7.Herry went back to figure the truth but they went to the continent for a month.
8.He bought an suit for a million pounds
9.he was reported in the newspaper.Then he was invited to a party.
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10. But soon Adam got into trouble. With the stock market slumped, it was said that Adam was a crook, thus everyday a number of debt collectors came to keep dunning him for bills.
11. Fortunately, the deadline of one month finally arrived, and Adam succeeded to pay the one million pound bank-note to the rich brothers, to whose surprise, Adam did not accept the job they offered.
The whole story ended with comedy, that Adam married an excellent wife and got an interest of 30 thousand pound from bank. From that time, he and his family had a happy life.
Main Characters
Relationships:
Adam Henry(leading character):
①Henry comes from San Francisco,and he doesn't know London at all(He was at the bottom of society)
②He is very honest.When he met the two brothers,he told the truth to them.
③He is very hard-working.He wants work but not charity.(“I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand”.)
④He is very frank.He has the great ambition and always admit it.(“Well,it may seem luck to you but not to me”)
⑤In this novel,he is the epitome of the author(They have silmilar experience)
The two brothers(Oliver and Roderick)：
①They are representatives of the wealthy people.
②They are representatives of money worship and hypocrisy.
The Portia Langham(the Henry'wife)
①She is a beautiful and wealth woman.
②She values virtue rather than the money.
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