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Book1 Unit4 Friends forever
Guess who he is.
Warming up
He is a famous American writer of short stories.
He focused on the everyday life of ordinary people.
He is also called the father of the modern American short stories.
His stories are best known for the surprise endings.
O. Henry
Read the introduction of O. Henry.
Background
Major Works
AFTER
20
YEARS
—by O. Henry
Predict what happened
Pre-reading
A policeman
A man
Basic elements of a short story
The basic elements of a short story should include settings, characters and plot.
Read the story quickly and get the key information.
Read for information
New York, outside a shop
on a cold, dark night
a policeman
a man
a policeman
is waiting for
appointment
An appointment
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Read for answers
What was the appointment
Why did they separate twenty years ago
Did they keep in touch during the twenty years
Did they value their friendship
What were the personalities of them
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Read for answers
They agreed that they would meet there again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what their conditions might be or from what distance they might have to go.
1. What was the appointment
Personalities
The man
Jimmy
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Read for answers
2. Why did they separate twenty years ago
The man: started for the West to make his fortune.
Jimmy: stayed in New York because no one could drag him out of New York and he thought it was the only place on earth.
adventurous
ambitious
stubborn
conservative
Personalities
The man
Jimmy
adventurous
ambitious
stubborn
conservative
Jimmy:
the only place
The man:
make a fortune
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Read for answers
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Read for answers
3. Did they keep in touch during the twenty years
For a time they corresponded but after a year or two they lost track of each others.
v. 通信
失去联系
Read the story again and answer the questions.
Read for answers
4. Did they value their friendship
They both valued their friendship.
truest, staunchest
Personalities
The man
Jimmy
truest, staunchest
responsible
responsible
Now read the note and find out what the surprise ending was.
Read for ending
The man was Bob,a criminal. But Jimmy was the policeman. Jimmy turned up as they agreed twenty years ago, but he decided to fulfill his duty and have Bob arrested.
If you were Bob, how did you feel after being arrested by your friend
Law
Friends
Work in pairs and discuss the following question.
Think & Share
If you were Jimmy, would you arrest your friend
1. Jimmy was the policeman. He turned up as they agreed twenty years ago, but he decided to fulfill(履行) his duty and have Bob arrested.
2. Bob would be very sad and angry when he read the note because Jimmy was his best friend and he trusted him deeply but Jimmy made him arrested. Or Bob would feel sort of comfortable because he might think that Jimmy had a good sense of duty and was just and fair. In some ways, he didn’t have to hide himself restlessly in his later life.
Think & Share
Think & Share
3. Yes, I think Jimmy did right. From his note, I can catch that Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew Bob was the criminal and what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from a thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years before must have deeply touched him. Therefore, he could not bring himself to arrest Bob.
All in all, law is more important than friendship to maintain the whole society to develop smoothly.
Bob is going to write a letter to Jimmy from the prison. Please help Bob to write the letter.